Fawzia Idioms Flashcards
(28 cards)
Acquire
Get one’s hands onEx : get your’s hands on
Go into debts
Go in the red
Cheat you and get more than the stamp’s real worth
Take you to the cleaners
Conduct an extensive search
Search high and low
Are not readily available
Don’t grow on trees
Persevere
Hang on
Write a bad check
Bounce a check
Out of debt
In the black
Not to move
Stay put
Come up with
Cough up
Financially overextended
Stretched too thin
Living within your budget
To live within your’s means
One of those days
Crazy day where nothing goes rightMultiple things go wrong
Crazy day where nothing goes rightMultiple things go wrong
One of those day
HungryStarving
Could eat a horse
I don’t like him too much
I can’t stand the sight of him
Drink too much
To be totally smashed out of his brain
Too stupid
She is as thick as two shorts planks
RichWealthy
Absolutely loaded
The weather is wet and cold
The weather is vile
Extremely tired after exercises
They are knackered
Bad day or bad st
Absolute hell
Very happyWhen you win something unexpected
Subject + verb + over the moonEx when I won a trip for two to Venice I was over the moon
When you ignore a problemYou don’t want to face it
She just buries her head
