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Back to the drawing board

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When an attempt to do sth fails and it’s time to start all over again using different methods

برگشتن سر خونه اول- روز از نو روزی از نو

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The Ball is in your court

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Your turn to make a decision

توپ تو زمین توعه

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Cost an arm and a leg

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Very expensive
خیلی گرونه

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Over the moon

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Extreamly happy
خیلی خوشحال

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Jumping the gun

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Start sth too early
خیلی عجله کردن

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Once in a blue moon

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Very rarely. Almost never
خیلی به ندرت

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chip on one’s shoulder?

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Feeling inferior or having a grievance about sth
شکایت داشتن- حس ناخوشی داشتن

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A peice of cake

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Very easy
خیلی راحت

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A drop in the ocean

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A very small part of sth much bigger

یه قطره از اقیانوس

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Blessing in disguise

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sth positive that isn’t recognized until later
بدون حکمت نیست- توفیق اجباری

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Bite your tongue

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stop yourself from saying sth

زبونتو گاز بگیر

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Don’t putt all your eggs in one bascket

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Putting all of one’s resources into one possibility

همه شانساتو یه جا خرج نکن

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Every cloud has a silver lining

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Believing that every bad situation has a pissitive side/eventually leads to sth good

پایان شب سیه سپید است

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Find my feet

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To become comfortable in what you are doing

راحت بودن با انجام کاری

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Fixed in your ways

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Not wanting to change from a normal ways of doing sth

نخوای که روش کارتو عوض کنی- دگم- مقاوم به تغییر

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Got up on the wrong side of the bed

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To refer to someone who is having a bad day

مود خوب نبودن از دنده چپ بلند شدن

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Hit the nail on the head

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Say exactly the right thing

به هدف زدن- درست انجام دادن

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In the heat of the moment

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Saying or doing sth suddenly withou thinking about it

وقتی عصبی ای و چیزی میگی- بدون فکر حرف ردن

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Let sleeping dogs lie

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Avoid a conflict

صدا سگشو درنیار

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Actions speak louder than words

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It’s better to actually do sth rather than just talking about it
عمل از حرف بهتره

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It’s a small world

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Meeting someone you would not have expected to

دنیای کوچیکیه انتظار نداشتم ببینمت

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Stuck/caught between a rock and a hard place

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Having two very bad choices

بین بد و‌بدتر موندن

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Cut to the chase

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Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point

برو سر اصل مطلب

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Go the extra mile

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Doing much more than is required when doing sth

شورشو دراوردن

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If it's not one thing, it's the other
When everything seems to be going wrong از زمین و هوا میباره
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Keep an eye on him
Watch someoneor sth carefully حواست باشه بهش
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Kicked the bucket
Died مرد
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Let the cat out of the bag
Tell someone sth that you were not supposed to لو دادن
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Bite the hand that feeds you
Hurt or upset someone who is helping you نمک خوردن نمکدان شکستن
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Sitting in the fence
Not making a firm decision between different choices مردد بودن
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Over the top
Excessive افراطی
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Practice makes perfect
Continousely doing sth to improve کار نیکو کردن از پر کردن است
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Pulling leg
Joking شوخلوخ
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Take a rain check
To decline an offer that you will take up later بذا برم فکرامو بکنم بهت خبر میدم
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Rule of thumb
Principalthat is strictly adheared قطعی مسلم
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Smell a rat
To sense that sth is not right کاسه‌ای زیر نیم کاسه بودن
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The spitting image A chip of old block Take after someone
To look axactly like someone خیلی شبیه کسی بودن
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Untill the cows come home
For a very long time تا دیروقت
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Tongue in cheek
Sth said in humour rather than seriously شوخیس بابا
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Under the weather
Unwell حالش خوب نیس
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Water under the bridge
Things from the past that are not imp any more گذشته‌ها کذشته
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You are what you eat
Good food good mood شما چیزی هستید که میخورید
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Judge a book by it's cover
Outside never reveals the inside کتابو از جلدش قضاوت نکن
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Working against the clock
Not having enough time to do sth ضرب‌العجل کار کردن
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Flogging a dead horse
Attepmting to continue with sth that is finished آب در هاونگ کوبیدن
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Bend over backwards
Doing all you can do to help someone برای کسی جر خوردن
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Break a leg
Good luck موفق باشی
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Playing devil's advocate
To put forward a side in an argument that may not be your own in order to show the counter argument نقش مخالفو بازی کردن
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Hold your horses
Be patient صبوری کن
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Driving me up the wall
Annoying sb کلوچه شدن
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A hot potato
Speek of an issue which many peopleare talking about بحث داغ
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Caught between two stools
When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives سر دوراهی موندن
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A penny for your thoughts
What's on your mind? بگو‌پولشو میدیم. چی تو فکرت میگذره
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Cross the bridge when you come to it
Not worry about a possible problem until it actually happens اول به حموم برس بعد لخت شو
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Add insult to injury
To do or say something that makes a bad situation even worse for someone نمک به زخم پاشیدن
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At the drop of a hat
without any hesitation، instantly فورا
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barking up the wrong tree
Looking in the wrong place. Accausing the wrong person سر گور اشتباه گریه کردن
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Beat around the bush
avoiding the main topic, not speaking directly about the issue. طفره رفتن
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Be glad to see the back of
be happy when a person leaves با یه خدافظی خوشحالمون کن
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Best of both worlds
all the advantages بهترین دو عالم
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Best thing since sliced bread
A good invention or innovation . a good idea or plan بهترین ایده و خلاقیت
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bite off more than you can chew
to take on a task that is way too big لقمه بزرگتر از دهن برداشتن
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burn the midnight oil
to work late into the night alluding to the time before electric lighting دود چراغ خوردن
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cry over spilt milk
when you complain about a loss from the past کار بیهوده کردن
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Curiosity killed the cat
being inquisitive can lead you into an unpleasant situation فوضولیش به تو نیومده
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Cut corners
when something is done badly to save money از سرته کار زدن برای صرفه جویی
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Cut the mustard
to succeed; to come up to expectations; adequate enough to compete or participate موفق شدن
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Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched
this idiom is used to express don't make plans for something that might not happen جوجه رو اخر پاییز میشمرن
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Don't give up the day job
you are not very good at something you could definitely not do it professionally ازین شاخه به اون شاخه نپر میرینی
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drastic times call for drastic measures
When you are extremely desperate, you need to take drastic actions گاو نر میخواهد و مرد کهن
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Elvis has left the building
to show has come to an end ,it's all over. دیر رسیدی
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far cry from
Very different from فرقش زمین تا اسمونه
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Give the benefit of the doubt
Believe someone's statement without proof ایشالا که خیره
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here it on the grapevine
this idiom means to hear rumors about something or someone شایعه بودن
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hit the sack,sheets, hay
To go to bed خوابیدن
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it takes two to tango
Actions or communications need more than one person یه دس صدا نداره
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Jump on the bandwagon
Join a popular trend or activity همرنگ جماعت- جنگ شادی
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Keep something at Bay
Keep something away فاصله را حفظ کردن
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Kill two birds with one stone
To accomplish two different things at the same time با به تیر دو نشون زدن
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Last straw
The final problem in a series of problems اخرین حد تحمل. سنگ اخر
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Make a long story short
come to the point leave out details برو سر اصل مطلب
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method to my madness
And assertion that despite one's approach seeming random, there actually is structure to it. اینم روش منه
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miss the boat
This idiom is used to say that someone missed his or her chance دیر کردی
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not a spark of decency
No manners ذره‌ای ادب نداره
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Not playing with a full deck
someone who lacks intelligence با تمام توانمندیش کار نمیکنه. خنگه
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Off one's rocker
Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind senile. قاطی کرده
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On the ball
when someone understands the situation well خیلی مسلطه
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Picture paints 1000 words
A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words شنیدن کی بود مانند دیدن
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put wool over other people's eyes
This means to deceive someone into thinking well of them فریب دادن
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See eye to eye
When to or more people agree on something توافق
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speak of the devil
This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives موشو اتیش زدن
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Steal someone's thunder
to take the credit for something someone else did مریت کار کسی رو به نفع خود تمام کردن
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Take it with a grain of salt
this means not to take what someone says too seriously زیاد جدیش نگیر
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taste of your own medicine
Means that something happens to you or is done to you that you have done to someone else تلافی کردن
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to hear something straight from the horse's mouth
To hear something from the authoritative source. خبر موثق
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Whole 9 yards
Everything all of it کل ماجرا
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Wouldn't be caught dead
would never like to do something مگه از جنازم رد بشی
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Your guess is as good as mine
to have no idea, do not know the answer to a question توام که اندازه من هیچی حالیت نیس

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