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A pretty penny | |
About face | |
Ace up your sleeve | |
Achilles` heel | |
Act high and mighty | |
Act on someone`s advice | |
Adam`s apple | |
Alike as two peas | |
All ears | |
All heart | |
All in a day`s work | |
All set | |
All skin and bone | |
All that glitters is not gold | |
All the tea in China ( not for all the tea in China ) | |
All your eggs in one basket ( to put all your eggs in one basket) | |
All`s well that ends well | |
An apple of discord | |
An apple a day keeps the doctor away | |
An old flame | |
Ants in your pants | |
Any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
Apple of your eye | |
Arm and a leg | |
Armed to the teeth | |
Around the clock | |
As a rule | |
As cold as ice ( również as cold as stone ) | |
As cool as a cucumber | |
As good as new | |
As mad as a wrongly shot hog | |
As much use as a handbrake on a canoe | |
As neat as a new pin | |
As one man | |
At a loss | |
At a snail`s pace | |
At arm`s length | |
At cross purposes | |
At death`s door | |
At each other`s throats | |
At large | |
At loggerheads | |
At loose ends | |
At odds | |
At once | |
At sea | |
At the drop of a hat | |
At the end of the day | |
At the fore | |
At the top of your voice | |
At your wits` end | |
Aunt Sally | |
Awe inspiring | |
AWOL | |
Axe to grind (have an axe to grind) | |
Babe in arms | |
Babe in the woods | |
Backseat driver | |
Bad blood | |
Bad egg | |
Bag of nerves | |
Bar fly | |
Be all fingers and thumbs | |
Bean counter | |
Bear fruit | |
Beat around the bush | |
Bedroom eyes | |
Bee in your bonnet | |
Beeline for | |
Bee`s Knees | |
Before you can say Jack Robinson | |
Behind bars | |
Behind the times | |
Behind closed doors | |
Behind someone`s back | |
Below the belt | |
Benjamin of the family | |
Beside yourself | |
Beside the point | |
Better late than never | |
Better safe than sorry | |
Between the devil and the deep blue sea | |
Between the lines | |
Big Apple | |
Big cheese | |
Big Easy | |
Big fish | |
Bird-brain | |
Birds and the bees | |
Birthday suit | |
Black sheep | |
Blue blood | |
Bolt from the blue | |
Bone of contention | |
Butterflies in your stomach | |
By all means | |
By a whisker | |
By heart | |
By the book | |
By the skin of your teeth | |
By the cringe | |
Call a spade a spade | |
Castles in the air | |
Cat`s whiskers | |
Catch someone red-handed | |
Chalk and cheese | |
Chip off the old block | |
Clean hands | |
Come to grips | |
Come what may | |
Cost a bomb | |
Couch potato | |
Crocodile tears | |
Curiosity killed the cat | |
Cut loose | |
Cutting edge | |
Dead air | |
Dead and burried | |
Dice with death | |
Die in the last ditch | |
Dog in the manager | |
Daily dozen | |
Dead easy | |
Donkey`s years | |
Drive someone mad | |
Drop in the market | |
Dead duck | |
Dutch courage | |
Each and every | |
Easier said than done | |
easy come easy go | |
Eeasy on the eye | |
Enough is enough | |
Feel washed out | |
For a laugh | |
For fun | |
For good | |
For the time being | |
From scratch | |
From the bottom of one`s heart | |
Get on sb`s nerves | |
Get rid of something | |
Give-and-take | |
Go halves | |
Go to extremes | |
Go to waste | |
Go up in smoke | |
Grind to a halt | |
Hand in hand | |
Have a hunch | |
Have clean hands | |
Have sth at one`s fingertips | |
Hit the headlines | |
Hit the jackpot | |
Hush money | |
In a nutshell | |
In bulk | |
Joking apart | |
Just in case | |
Keep a straight face | |
Leave someone in the lurch | |
Little by little | |
Made of money | |
Make a noise | |
More or less | |
Mum is the word | |
No matter | |
Off the cuff | |
On occasion | |
On the dole | |
Out of order | |
Over my dead body | |
Put in jeopardy | |
Rat race | |
Red tape | |
Rule of thumb | |
Run riot | |
Safe and sound | |
Save the situation | |
Sick and tired | |
Sing a different song | |
Small talk | |
Snake in the grass | |
Spitting image of sb | |
Take for granted | |
Take it easy | |
Talk turkey | |
Teach someone a lesson | |
Teething troubles | |
Think aloud | |
Time is money | |
To and fro | |
To be in somebody`s shoes | |
To throw a party | |
Ugly duckling | |
Ups and downs | |
White lie | |
With open arms | |
Work wonders | |
Young at heart | |
Zero hour |
Category: General English - Speaking
Tags: english idioms, most popular english idioms