Random lexico notes

A good/safe/sure bet

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Have your fair share of sth

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Wide open to something

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Make short work of someone/something

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In a (flat) spin

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Have a loose tongue

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A light touch

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Be slow/quick off the mark

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far off the mark

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Thick/Thin on the ground

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Be quick/fast on the draw

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Fighting fit

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Ring true

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Give someone the hard sell

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Clear blue water

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Be at the sharp end of something

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Have a strong stomach

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Be wide of the mark

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Pull/get one’s finger out

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Go to town (on something)

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At first hand

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The bottom of the heap/pile

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Do one's heart good

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Be on pins and needles

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Still waters run deep

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Make one's skin crawl

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Shake one’s fist at sb

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Be (as) plain as the nose on one’s face

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Stand/walk tall

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Come/get (down) off your high horse

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Go hot and cold

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Like a cat on a hot tin roof

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Harm a hair on one's head

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Play out of one's skin

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Put/make a dent in sth

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under the auspices

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load of cobblers

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spot of bother

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bulging at the seams

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have a dig at sb

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go to seed

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in the doldrums

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on the firing line

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play devil's advocate

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take the bread out of somebody’s mouth

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blue ribbon

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vale of tears

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know full well

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it is no skin of my nose

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boiling frog

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like a shag on a rock

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juggle frogs

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hot on the heels

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near the knuckle

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put him on a pedestal

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put the wind up sb

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the going rate

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bucked the trend

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At the top of the tree

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going concern

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give someone the eye

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chew (one's) ear(s) off

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bless their little cotton socks

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Go soft in the head

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treat sb with kid gloves

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a hundred and ten percent

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come out in the wash

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Come down the pike

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Come out swinging/ fighting

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Rob the cradle

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Dance on air

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out on his ear

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raise sb’s hackles

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push the envelope

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Screw the pooch

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done the rounds

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Give (one) a buzz

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Having right of abode

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Up to the mark

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rant and rave

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Rack and ruin

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when hell freezes over

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when the sun is over the yardarm

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Amber nectar

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A class act

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lead sb up the garden path

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go down the tubes

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where the puck is heading

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where the shoe pinches

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wake up and smell the coffee

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raise a red flag

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Rake over the ashes

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pack heat

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push the boat out

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catch a tiger by the tail

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pulling  teeth

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draw/pull in your horns

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give sb a run for their money

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Could sell ice to Eskimos

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movers and shakers

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