English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate Unit 9 | Quizlet

a heart of gold

very kind, generous

as good as gold

helpful, well-behaved; used generally for children

as hard as nails

no sympathy for others

a nasty piece of work

unpleasant

to have a heart in the right place

when someone is a good and kind person even though they do not always seem so

an awkward customer

difficult person to deal with

a pain in the neck

nuisance, difficult

gets on everyone's nerves

irritates everybody

to have your head screwed on

to be sensible

to have a head for heights

not suffer from vertigo

to have a head like a sieve

bad memory

to have a good head for figures

to be good at maths

to have your head in the clouds

to be unware of reality

to be head and shoulders above someone

to be much better than someone

to bury your head in the sand

refuse to think about a difficult situation in the hope you won't have to deal with it

to keep your head

stay calm in a difficult situation

to be an odd-ball

peculiar, strange

to be over the top

very exaggerated in behaviour

to go round the bend

to go absolutely crazy/mad

middle-of-the-road when something is very normal; no radical ideas

to be the teacher's pet

to be the teacher's favourite

to be a know-all

when someone things he/she knows everything

to be a big-head

to have a high opinion of himself/herself

to be a lazy-bones

used to refer to a lazy person