5b Flashcards by 10 - Hằngg 9/1 - Hằngg 9/1

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A bit of a dark horse

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Person with hidden abilities

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Be for the high jump

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About to be reprimanded/punished

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Be in two minds about sth

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Not be able to decide what to do

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Be sound asleep

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Sleep deeply

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Be the perfect image of sb

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Look exactly like sb

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Before one can say Jack Robinson

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Extremely quickly

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Break the ice

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Ease the tension when one first meets people

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Eat one’s heart out

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Feel jealous/sad about sth

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Flog a dead horse

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Waste time doing sth useless

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Fly off the handle

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Quickly become very angry

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Get out of hand

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Become out of control

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Get the hang of it

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Get in the habit of doing sth

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Go to one’s head

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Make conceited

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Grey matter

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Brains; intelligence

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Hand in glove with sb

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Be in very close contact with sb

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Have a job to do sth

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Find sth difficult to do

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Have many irons in the fire

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Have lots of plans/possibilities in progress at the same time

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Have one’s heart in one’s mouth

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Extremely anxious

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Have time on one’s hands

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Have free time

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Hold one’s horses

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Wait, be patient

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Ill at ease

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Embarrassed, uncomfortable

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Keep sth under one’s hat

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Keep sth secret

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Keep up with the Joneses

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Compete with others in status/material goods

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Lend sb a hand

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Give help to sb

Like the back of one's hand

Be very familiar with sth

Lose heart

Become discouraged

Make heart nor tail of

Understand sth

Off the cuff

Without preparation

Stew in one's own juice

Suffer the consequences of one's own actions

Straight from the horse's mouth

From the most direct source

Have sb's hands full

Be very busy with sth

Sth comes in handy

Be very useful/practical

Strike gold

Come across sth useful

Take sth to heart

Take personally/be influenced by

Take to one's heels

Run away

The ins and outs

The detail of an activity

The tip of the iceberg

Small evident part of a much larger, concealed situation