expresions Flashcards
when there is not time…
run out of time
-we are running out of time
immediately
right away
feel sick from drinking
hangover
when you have desire to do something
I’m in the mood
I feel like
- i am in the mood to go to the restaurant
- i feel like going to the restaurant
omething we already have is more valuable than something we think we may get in the future.
‘Don’t count your chickens (before they hatch/before they are hatched)’
‘A bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush)’
to being careful before you act.
‘Look before you leap’
‘Better (to be) safe than sorry’
to warn someone not to try to do too much, we often say.
‘Don’t bite off more than you can chew’
We might warn someone to be strict with a child, employee, etc., by saying ,
‘Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile’
if someone justifies a bad action by saying that it was a response to another bad action, we might tell them sternly that Similarly, when we say
‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’.
if someone complains that the poor quality of their work was caused by substandard equipment
‘A bad workman always blames his tools’.
people shouldn’t criticize other people for bad qualities they have themselves.
‘People (who live) in glass houses (shouldn’t throw stones)’,
meaning that worthwhile things often take a long time
‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’,
if someone is frustrated because they can’t work out how to achieve something
‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’
meaning that it is impossible to achieve things without some bad effects.
‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs’
