Time for the competition “American Idioms”!

Pick your idiom by its beginning word:

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A All

Beat Beside

At

Big

DirtyCookCheck

GiveGiveGhost

Make Over Pick Put

In

Down

Burn

Back

Two

Ins

Face

Bury

Be

Vanish

Know

Get

Catch

Beat

Burn the midnight oil

• Stay up late studying• Ready, prepared• Angry

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Beat one’s brain out

• Angry• Get information from an expert• Work vigorously, very hard

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Dirty look

• Homeless• Angry or displeased look• Not clean

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Get away with

• Disappear• Go unpunished (to receive no punishment)• Travel to somewhere with someone

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Vanish into thin air

• Stay up late studying• Disappear suddenly• Can not breath

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Be all ears

• Listen attentively• Be careful• Get ready

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Make no secret of

• Reveal, tell openly• Listen attentively• Give someone a chance

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Beat around the bush

• In a similar situation• Details• Not to be direct, not to say exactly what you

want

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A man of his word

• Sale person• Someone who doesn’t break his promise• Someone who tell a story

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Check up on

• Make sure• Investigate• Ready, be prepared

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Ins and outs

• Details• Advantage and disadvantage• Inside and outside

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In the same boat

• Be friends• In a similar situation• Neighbor

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Over one’s head

• Can’t be understood, too hard• Be experienced, know how to do something• Very important person

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Put our heads together

• Discuss, share the ideas• Can’t be understood, too hard• Be friends

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Know the ropes

• Deal with difficult situation with courage• Get information by asking an expert• Be experienced, know how to do something

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Back on one’s feet

• To be back to the beginning• To return to good financial situation• To get up

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Pick the brains of

• Get information by asking an expert• Buy something important• Have a good friend

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All set

• Ready, prepared• Make peace• Not late

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Face the music

• Get information by asking an expert• Deal with a difficult situation with courage• Slightly chance, very little chance

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Give someone the cold shoulder

• Be friend• Ignore, treat someone in an unfriendly way• Help someone pay for something

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Ghost of a chance

• Confused• Do something wrong• Slightest chance, very little chance

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Give someone a piece of one’s mind

• Express one’s opinion frankly, and in a severe or angry way

• Tell someone about a story• Tell the lie

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Bury the hatchet

• Make peace• Ruin everything• Be quiet

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Big shot

• Very big chance• Very important person• Very important place

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Down and out

• Broke, no money• Details• Ruins one’s opportunity

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Cook one’s goose

• Disloyal, untrustworthy• Ruin one’s opportunity• Make dinner for someone

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Two-faced

• Disloyal, untrustworthy• A twin• Change his/her mind easily

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At sea

• Very wide• Comfortable• Confused

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Catch one’s eye

• Be attractive• Look after someone• Very angry at someone

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Beside the point

• Out of topic• Be close to someone• Moreover

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