Audible Idioms, John Peter Sloan
Audible Idioms, John Peter Sloan
Audible Idioms, John Peter Sloan
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4. ‘Break a leg’
- used to wish a performer "good luck" before a show or performance
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Categories
AGE
- to realize that you are becoming older and it’s difficult to do things that younger people do
6. ‘Under age’
7. ‘Young at heart’
- this means that even though someone is old they still feel young
ANIMALS: BIRDS
- means that someone told you something but you don’t want to say who it was
- when something bad happened in the past but you are prepared to forget it
4. ‘Chicken out’
- if you are able to do something well when you try to do it for the first time
ANIMALS: FISH
- be in an unfamiliar situation
ANIMALS: DOGS
- a situation where everyone is competing and doesn’t care about other people
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ANIMALS: CATS
- reveal a secret
2. ‘A cat in hell’s chance’
CLOTHES
- means that you are very sure that something will or won’t happen
- to be very afraid
COLOURS
- if you really want something that someone has or you want to be like them
6. ‘Green light’
CRIME
1. ‘Behind bars’
- be in prison
4. ‘Thick as thieves’
- means to be in prison
DEATH
5. ‘Kiss of death’
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FOOD
4. ‘Apple of my eye’
- the person you love the most, usually one of your children
5. ‘Cool as a cucumber’
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DREAMS
3. ‘Dream on’
- means keep dreaming about something because it will never become real
6. ‘Pipe dream’
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FURNITURE
- reverse the situation so that you beat someone who was beating you
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HEALTH
1. ‘White as a sheet’
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HOUSE
- be extremely angry
4. ‘Close to home’
- if something makes you uncomfortable because it’s also true about you
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Law
1. ‘Unwritten law’
- if someone thinks they are so important they don’t have to respect the law
- the power of the police and the government to find criminals anywhere
THE BODY
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EYES
- not appear worried about something dramatic you have just heard or seen
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FEET
1. ‘Dead on your feet’
2. ‘Feet first’
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LEGS
- joke with someone and tell them something that isn’t true
5. ‘Shake a leg!’
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TEETH
1. ‘Bare your teeth’
- when it’s very difficult to make someone talk or give you any information
- be extremely bored
- to escape or avoid something bad that was about to happen, be very lucky
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HANDS
2. ‘Cap in hand’
- when you have to ask someone for something important or a large amount of money
3. ‘Be on hand’
4. ‘Hands on’
5. ‘Helping hand’
LOVE
5. ‘A labour of love’
- something that you do because you really want to do it, not for money
6. ‘Tough love’
- bring up a child in a strict way, without giving them everything they want, in order to help them
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WORK
- something that you do that helps someone a lot, but it’s part of your job
- someone who can do a bit of everything, but doesn’t specialise in one thing
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SPORT
- show that you cannot continue doing something, admit that you have lost
- means you are waiting for the other person to say or do something
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TIME
- when something happens that should have happened a long time ago
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CONFLICT
- even though someone is unconventional they do things in a way that achieves results
- means you don’t know what someone is really like just from their appearance
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NERVES
5. ‘A piece of cake’
- means that it’s easy to talk about something but difficult to actually do it
- stop demanding too much from someone and be more gentle with them