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Commitment to doing something (stop drinking alcohol)

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Be on the wagon

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start to do something after it has become successful or popular

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Jump on the bandwagon

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Give up on a commitment (start drinking alcohol after giving up)

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Fall off the wagon

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leave one place to go to another

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To hit the road;

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Something that is not extreme

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Be middle-of-the-road

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be far in the future

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Be long way down the road.

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To waste time trying to create something that has already been made

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To reinvent the wheel

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to not be doing your job, or not taking responsibilities seriously

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Be asleep at the wheel

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When something goes wrong or fails

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The wheels have come off.

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be very obvious and easy to see

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to stick out a mile

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To not want to get involved with something

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To run a mile.

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to talk about someone who's been given a little bit of freedom then tries to take much more

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give someone an inch and they'll take a mile

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be in control of a situation or in charge of something

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Be In the driver's seat;

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someone who tries to take control of a situation that they are not responsible for

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a backseat driver;

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someone who drives at an annoyingly slow speed

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A Sunday driver.

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to miss an opportunity to get involved in something because you waited too long

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to miss the boat

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be very easy without problems

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be plain sailing

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be in the same bad situation as other people

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be in the same boat as someone else

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When two people in a competition are level and have the same chance of winning

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be neck and neck

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To be coming to the end of a long task

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Be on the home straight or stretch

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be a situation where the result of something is unsure until the very last moment

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Something be down to the wire

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Hurry up

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Get your skates on

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be doing something risky or dangerous

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Be skating on thin ice

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To fail to deal with an issue

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To skate over something

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to give your complete attention to something

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To keep your eye on the ball

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To describe situation we know little about or is totally different

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Be a whole new ball game

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Be very quick to understand something

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Be on the ball

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A situation which fails because you are not properly ready or able to do it

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A false start

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to do something too soon without thinking about it properly

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To jump the gun

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Be the person or organisation most likely to win something

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Be the front runner

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to describe something that someone says which is very hurtful or unfair

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Be below the belt

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to accept an unpleasant situation without complaining

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To take it on the chin

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To give up, or be about to admit defeat

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To throw in the towel

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The/to start an event/task,

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The/to kick off

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To change the rules while trying to do something to make it harder,

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To move the goalposts

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To describe topics that politicians from different parties argue about and try to get an advantage for themselves

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A political football

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To be a complete surprise

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To be a bolt from the blue;

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To happen extremely rarely

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To happen once in a blue moon

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To waste time and effort saying something because we won't get any results.

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To say something until you are blue in the face

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To be born into a situation of high social position and wealth

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To be born with a silver spoon in your mouth

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To describe someone who speaks in such a pleasant way that they can make other people do things for them

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To be silver-tongued

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To be positive about a situation which seems bad but in fact has some advantage to it

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Every cloud has a silver lining

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To be a good gardener and able to make plants grow very easily

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To have green fingers

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To describe the idea that other people are in a better situation than you, even when they are not

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The grass is always greener on the other side

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To be unhappy because someone else has something that we want

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To be green with envy

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Very well-behaved

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Be as good as gold

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Be very kind and helpful

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Have a heart of gold

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be extremely useful

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Be worth its weight in gold

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To go out partying to celebrate something

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To paint the town red

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To find someone doing something bad or illegal while they are doing it

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To catch someone red-handed

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To describe something that is certain to create an angry response

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To be like a red rag to a bull

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To describe a situation in which it's easy for someone to understand what's wrong and what's right

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To be black and white

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To be very pale because you are ill, shocked or scared

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Be as white as a sheet

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something that is very exciting or scary

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Be a white-knuckle ride

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to do be doing something that seems impossible or makes us frustrated

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To be like banging your head against a brick wall

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To not be fully aware of a situation

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To have your head in the clouds

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someone who seems older than they are or if they talk and think like an older person/be mature

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Be an old head on young shoulders

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To be very angry about something

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To be up in arms

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To want something very, very much

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To give my right arm to do it

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to try to persuade someone to do something that they don't want to do

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to twist someone's arm

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To have/get a strong feeling that you'd like to travel

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To have/get itchy feet

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To describe making a plan, but then decide not to do it because you are too nervous

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To get cold feet

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To do something that ruins a situation for you

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To shoot yourself in the foot

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to look after something or to watch it closely

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To keep an eye on something

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To know everything that's happening around you, even though you can't see it

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To have eyes in the back of your head

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To take too much food and then not be able to eat it all

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To have eyes that are bigger than your stomach

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try to make someone believe something that isn't true

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To pull someone's leg

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to be extremely expensive

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to cost an arm and a leg

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be in a situation where you can't prove something

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To not have a leg to stand on

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To behave in a less serious way than usual and enjoy yourself

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To let your hair down

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To tell someone who is angry to calm down

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Keep your hair on

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to be very anxious about something

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to tear/pull your hair out

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To be very easy

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To be as easy as pie

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To be very drunk

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To be pie-eyed

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To be involved in lots of different activities

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To have a finger in many pies

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To be something you don´t like very much or are not interested in

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To not be your cup of tea

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To be something you don't like very much or refuse to do

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To not do for all the tea in China

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To be completely useless

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To be as good as a chocolate teapot

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To be bad or dishonest

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To be a bad egg

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never rely on only one plan

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Don't put all your eggs in one basket

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a make a mistake which makes you look stupid

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To have/get egg on your face

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To be full of energy

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To be full of beans

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To have no money at all

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To not have a bean

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to tell/reveal a secret

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to spill the beans

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be a delicate issue that people can't agree about

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be a hot potato

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to persuade someone to do something using an incentive (carrot) and a threat (stick)

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To use a carrot and a stick

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to be two or more things that are very alike, close (emotionally) or natural together

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Be Like two peas in a pod

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To become very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way

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To go bananas

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When someone pretends not to be impressed by something because they are jealous

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To be a case of sour grapes

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to do something a second time because we failed at first

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To have/take a second bite of the cherry.

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to behave in a silly or careless way

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To monkey around

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bad or dishonest behaviour

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Monkey business

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Make someone look stupid

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Make a monkey out of someone.

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Be very busy or moving around quickly doing lots of things

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Be as busy as a bee

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Be excellent

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Be The bee's knees

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To constantly talking about a specific topic that concerns you.

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To have a bee in your bonnet

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be unpopular because you´ve done something wrong

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be in the dog house

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To drink more alcohol to cure a hangover

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Have the hair of the dog

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make a mess of doing some thing

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Make a dog's dinner of something.

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Be very young or very small

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Be Knee-high to a grasshopper

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Be very nervous about something we have to do

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Have butterflies in your stomach

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Be so excited/nervous about something that you can't keep

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Have ants in your pants.

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Be a very small room/space

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Not be enough room to swing a cat

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tell a secret (especially if accidently)

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To let the cat out of the bag

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To cause trouble or make people very angry

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To put the cat among the pigeons

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To say that something will never happen

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And pigs might fly

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a very dirty or untidy place

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Be a pigsty

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do something very badly

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To make a pig's ear of something

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Not be very bright/stupid

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Be a Birdbrain

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see very clearly from a high place/above

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have a bird's eye view

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Used when giving information without revealing the source of the information

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A little bird told me

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eat a lot

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eat like a horse

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Used to describe information that was obtained direct from the source

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Comes straight from the horse's mouth

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to waste effort on something that we have no chance of succeeding at.

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To flog a dead horse

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A strange or suspicious situation

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Be fishy

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be important or powerful - but only in a small organisation

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Be a big fish in a small pond

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Be unhappy and/or uncomfortable because you're in an unfamiliar place

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Be a fish out of water

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Be so scared you can't stop moving

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Be shaking like a leaf

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Be so frightened you can't move

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Be scared stiff

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something frightens you very much

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Something sends shivers up and down your spine

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to try to prevent someone from discovering the truth about something

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To pull the wool over someone's eyes

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try to make someone believe something that isn't true

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Take someone for a ride

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To say you don´t believe an obvious lie or are not stupid

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To not be born yesterday

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