English words and idioms

The best thing since sliced bread

Something considered extremly good or useful (often ironicly)

Food for thought

something worth tinking about

Take it with a pinch of salt

Don’t believe something completely

Sour grapes

Pretending you don’t care about smth you actually want but can’t have

As cool as a cucumber

Completely calm and relaxed

In a nutshell

Briefly, summarising the key point

Melt-in-the-mouth

Нежное, тает во рту

Crispy

Хрустящее

Indulgent

Luxurious and a little naughty

Greasy

Oily

Subtle

A gentle, not obvious flavour

Watery

Водянистое

Bland

Lacking flavour

Moreish

So good you want more

Stodgy

heavy and filling in an unpleasant way

Rich

Strong, full flavour

Hearty

Large, filling and satisfying

Tangy

Sharp, slightly sour taste

OSASCOMP

Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose

Exhilirating

Refreshing, exciting

Mind-numbing

Extremely dullm really boring

Mortified

Сгореть со стыда

Not only inversion

Not only + auxiliary + subject + verb … but also + subject + verb/ Example: Not only did she pass her test, but she also got a perfect score

No sooner inversion

No sooner + had + subject + past participle + than + subject + past simple. Example: No sooner had she passed her driving test than she booked a road trip.

Hardly / Scarcely inversion

Hardly + had + subject + past participle + when + subject + past simple. Example: Hardly had we hit the road when it started raining.

Never / Rarely / Seldom inversion

Never / Rarely / Seldom + auxiliary + subject + verb. Example: Never has she experienced such road rage in her life.

Cost an arm and a leg

To be very expensive

Get cold feet

To become nervous about smth you planned

A pain in the neck

Someone or smth very annoying

Keep an eye on

To watch or look after smth carefully

Have a heart of stone

To be very unkind and unemotional

Bite your tongue

To stop yourself from saying smth

Give someone the cold shoulder

To ignore someone deliberately

Be bound to + infinitive

Certain to happen (expressing near-ceartainty stronger than will)

Be set to + infinitive

Clearly planned / expected (expressing near-ceartainty stronger than will)

It’s higly likely that / the chances are that

(expressing near-ceartainty stronger than will)

There’s a good / slight chance that

(expressing genuine uncertainty)

It’s conceivable that (formal)

Smth is imaginable (expressing genuine uncertainty)

Stand a chance of + gerund

(expressing genuine uncertainty)

Be unlikely to + infinitive

(expressing doubt / unlikelihood)

There’s little / no chance that

(expressing doubt / unlikelihood)

To fit work to life

Find work-life balance

To end up with

To possess something at the end or as a result of something else

To bore someone to death

утомить до смерти

To seem pointless to someone

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Rigid

Opposite of flexible (stiff, fixed)

To hit the road

Back-seat driver

Road rage

To be in the driving seat

To get the green light

To take a back seat

On autopilot

To put the brakes on

A smooth ride

To jump the gun

To rev up someone

Cooked

in trouble / doomed

No cap

Seriously / for real

Low-key

Secretly / kinda

Lock in

Focus / study hard

L

failure

High-key

Absolutely / really

Delusional

Not realistic

Hit different

Felt unusually good