50 Most Common Idioms with Meaning
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A dime a dozen: very common or ordinary
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A blessing in disguise: something that seems bad at first but turns out to be good
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A penny for your thoughts: curious about what someone is thinking
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Barking up the wrong tree: looking in the wrong place for something
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Beat around the bush: avoid getting to the main point
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Better late than never: it’s good that something happened even if it was delayed
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Bite the bullet: accept something unpleasant that must be done
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Break a leg: good luck (often used for performances)
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Call it a day: stop working or doing something for now
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Cut corners: do something in a quick and possibly dishonest way
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Cut someone some slack: be understanding and forgiving of someone’s mistake
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Easy does it: be careful and take things slowly
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Feel under the weather: not feeling well
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Get cold feet: lose your courage about doing something
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Give someone the benefit of the doubt: trust someone even though you’re not sure they deserve it
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Go back to the drawing board: start planning something again from the beginning
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Hang in there: be patient and keep trying
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Hit the sack: go to bed
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It’s not rocket science: something is not difficult to understand
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Keep your head above water: deal with difficult circumstances without giving up
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Kill two birds with one stone: achieve two things at the same time
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Let bygones be bygones: forget about past arguments or disagreements
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Let the cat out of the bag: reveal a secret
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Make a long story short: to summarize something
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Miss the boat: fail to take advantage of an opportunity
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No pain, no gain: you have to work hard to achieve something
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Once in a blue moon: very rarely
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On thin ice: in a dangerous or precarious situation
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Pay an arm and a leg: cost a lot of money
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Pull the wool over someone’s eyes: deceive someone
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See eye to eye: agree with someone
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Spill the beans: reveal a secret
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Steal someone’s thunder: take credit for something someone else did
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Take it with a grain of salt: don’t believe everything you hear
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Talk the talk, but walk the walk: be able to do something as well as you say you can
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The early bird gets the worm: the first person to try will be successful
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Throw in the towel: give up
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Through thick and thin: in good times and bad times
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Time flies: time seems to pass quickly
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Under the weather: not feeling well
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Up in the air: uncertain or undecided
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When pigs fly: something that will never happen
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You can’t have your cake and eat it too: you can’t have everything you want
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You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours: I do something for you if you do something for me
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You snooze, you lose: if you don’t take action, you will miss out on an opportunity
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Bend over backwards: try very hard to please someone
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Burn the midnight oil: stay up late working
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Cost an arm and a leg: be very expensive
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Hit the nail on the head: say exactly what is right
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Once in a blue moon: very rarely
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