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Unit 1
Put your foot in it 1,
Take a shine to 2,
A flash in the pan 3
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Unit 2: When and how are idioms used?
As stiff straight as a ramrod 1,
Sink like a stone 2,
Prick your ears up 3
11
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Unit 3: Using reference resources
Like it or lump it 1,
Like a rabbit deer caught in the ...,
Get off your backside 3
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Unit 4 & 5
Be take centre stage 1,
Join combine forces with sb 2,
Minefield 3
19
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Unit 6: Playing with idioms
Fringe benefits 1,
Burn a hole in your pocket 2
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Unit 7: Idioms from other varieties of English
Do sth right off the bat 1,
Throw sb a curveball 2,
Bat a thousand 3
14
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Unit 8: Modern idioms
The first lady 1,
From hell 2,
Fall off the radar 3
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Unit 9: Similes
As thin as rake 1,
As smooth as silk 2,
As bright as a button 3
19
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Unit 10: Binomials
Black and white 1,
Hit and miss 2,
Neck and neck 3
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Unit 11: Proverbs
Nothing ventured nothing gained 1,
Every cloud has a silver lining 2,
Necessity is the mother of invent...
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Unit 12: Cliches and fixed statements
There are plenty more fish in the...,
It s easy to be wise after the ev...,
In light of sth 3
13
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Unit 14: Sailing
On the rocks 1,
Be very successful 2,
Cut and run 3
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Unit 15: War and conflict
A call to arms 1,
Lay down your arms 2,
Beat a retreat 3
14
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Unit 16: Transport
Run out of steam 1,
Go off the rails 2,
Down the line 3
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Unit 17: Animals
Be the cat s whiskers 1,
Not a cat in hell s chance 2,
Dog in the manger 3
7
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Unit 18: Parts of the body
Put our heads together 1,
Be one in the eye for sth 2,
Hold bite your tongue 3
9
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Unit 19: Games and sport
Monopoly money 1,
The dice were loaded against 2,
Dice with death 3
16
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Unit 20: Ancient myths and history
Achilles s heel 1,
Pandora s box 2,
The midas touch 3
13
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Unit 21: Shakespeare
The green eyed monster 1,
At one fell swoop 2,
Eaten me out of house and home 3
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Unit 22: Literature
An albatross around your neck 1,
Be like ships that pass in the ni...,
Castles in the air 3
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Unit 23: Learning
Up to scratch 1,
Burn the candle at both ends 2,
On track 3
8
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Unit 24: Science and technology
At the cutting edge 1,
Hot off the press 2,
Push the right buttons 3
12
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Unit 25: Films, plays, and books
Rolling in the aisles 1,
Bring the house down 2,
Steal the show 3
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Unit 26
A twinkle in your father s eye 1,
Fly the nest 2,
A real chip off the old block 3
13
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Unit 27
Get up and go 1,
Have another string more strings ...,
A glutton for punishment 3
9
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Unit 28
Be on the fiddle 1,
As fit as a fiddle 2,
Play second fiddle to sb sth 3
18
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Unit 29
A cushy number 1,
Get a foot in the door 2,
Slog your guts out 3
14
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Unit 30
Cloud on the horizon 1,
Worship at the altar shrine templ...,
Throw sb sth a lifeline 3
16
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Unit 31
At this moment in time 1,
On a weekly basis 2,
Have a window 3
15
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Unit 32
Be quids in 1,
Laugh all the way to the bank 2,
Money for old rope 3
12
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Unit 33
The chattering classes 1,
A second class citizen 2,
The grass roots 3
16
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Unit 34
Square meal 1,
Done to a turn 2,
Eat like a pig 3
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Unit 35
Hit strike the right note 1,
Go down with a treat 2,
Go with a swing 3
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Unit 36
Rattle sb s cage 1,
Almost burt a blood vessel 2,
Make my blood boil 3
15
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Unit 37
Be a nightmare 1,
Take your eye off the ball 2,
Sweep sth under the carpet 3
16
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Unit 38
A bone of contention 1,
A bone to pick 2,
Argue the toss 3
17
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Unit 39
Marathon talks 1,
Be given the go ahead 2,
Fight for your life 3
16
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Unit 40
Beyond your wildest dreams 1,
Do yourself the world of good 2,
Take years off me 3
8
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Unit 41
First and foremost 1,
On balance by and large in the ma...,
In the final last analysis 3
13
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Unit 42
Ring the changes 1,
Put your shoulder to the wheel 2,
Reach for the stars moon 3
13
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Unit 43
At stake 1,
The penny dropped 2,
For good measure 3
15
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Unit 44
Fat chance 1,
Get a life 2,
It will all end in tears 3
4
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Unit 45
Take the words right out of sb s ...,
Be on message 2,
Sing from the same hymn sheet 3
10
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Unit 46
Win your spur 1,
Be riding high 2,
Come up trumps 3
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Unit 47
Bone dry 1,
Rock hard 2,
Stark naked 3
16
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Unit 48
Play gooseberry third wheel 1,
Play it cool 2,
Play it safe 3
14
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Unit 49
Listen to sth with half an ear 1,
Half baked scheme 2,
Half measures n 3
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Unit 50
That makes two of us 1,
Two can play at that game 2,
Be two of a kind 3
13
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Unit 51
At all hours 1,
That s sb all over 2,
All told 3
16
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Unit 52
Blank 1,
In next to no time 2,
No end of sth 3
18
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Unit 53
Hand sth to sb on a plate 1,
Have enough a lot too much on you...,
Step up to the plate 3
22
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Unit 54
Have a heart of gold 1,
Strike gold 2,
Worth your its weight in gold 3
18
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Unit 55
Have the time of your life 1,
Get the shock of your life 2,
Scare the life out of sb 3
17
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Unit 56
Dead and buried 1,
The kiss of death to sth 2,
Dead in the water 3
16
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Unit 57
Blank 1,
Bored out of your mind bored stif...,
Put set turn your mind to somethi...
18
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Unit 58
Harder than i had bargained for 1,
Give people the hard sell 2,
Hard and fast rules 3
17
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Unit 59
Blank 1,
Fall from grace 2,
Fall into the wrong hands 3
12
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Unit 60
Blank 1,
A woman after my own heart 2,
Come into your own 3
15
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