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Unit 1
Put your foot in it,
Take a shine to,
A flash in the pan
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Unit 2: When and how are idioms used?
As stiff straight as a ramrod,
Sink like a stone,
Prick your ears up
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Unit 3: Using reference resources
Like it or lump it,
Like a rabbit deer caught in the ...,
Get off your backside
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Unit 4 & 5
Be take centre stage,
Join combine forces with sb,
Minefield
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Unit 6: Playing with idioms
Fringe benefits,
Burn a hole in your pocket
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Unit 7: Idioms from other varieties of English
Do sth right off the bat,
Throw sb a curveball,
Bat a thousand
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Unit 8: Modern idioms
The first lady,
From hell,
Fall off the radar
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Unit 9: Similes
As thin as rake,
As smooth as silk,
As bright as a button
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Unit 10: Binomials
Black and white,
Hit and miss,
Neck and neck
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Unit 11: Proverbs
Nothing ventured nothing gained,
Every cloud has a silver lining,
Necessity is the mother of invention
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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
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Unit 14: Sailing
On the rocks,
Be very successful,
Cut and run
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Unit 15: War and conflict
A call to arms,
Lay down your arms,
Beat a retreat
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Unit 16: Transport
Run out of steam,
Go off the rails,
Down the line
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Unit 17: Animals
Be the cat s whiskers,
Not a cat in hell s chance,
Dog in the manger
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Unit 18: Parts of the body
Put our heads together,
Be one in the eye for sth,
Hold bite your tongue
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Unit 19: Games and sport
Monopoly money,
The dice were loaded against,
Dice with death
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Unit 20: Ancient myths and history
Achilles s heel,
Pandora s box,
The midas touch
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Unit 21: Shakespeare
The green eyed monster,
At one fell swoop,
Eaten me out of house and home
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Unit 22: Literature
An albatross around your neck,
Be like ships that pass in the night,
Castles in the air
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Unit 23: Learning
Up to scratch,
Burn the candle at both ends,
On track
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Unit 24: Science and technology
At the cutting edge,
Hot off the press,
Push the right buttons
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Unit 25: Films, plays, and books
Rolling in the aisles,
Bring the house down,
Steal the show
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Unit 26
A twinkle in your father s eye,
Fly the nest,
A real chip off the old block
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Unit 27
Get up and go,
Have another string more strings ...,
A glutton for punishment
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Unit 28
Be on the fiddle,
As fit as a fiddle,
Play second fiddle to sb sth
18
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Unit 29
A cushy number,
Get a foot in the door,
Slog your guts out
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Unit 30
Cloud on the horizon,
Worship at the altar shrine templ...,
Throw sb sth a lifeline
16
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Unit 31
At this moment in time,
On a weekly basis,
Have a window
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Unit 32
Be quids in,
Laugh all the way to the bank,
Money for old rope
12
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Unit 33
The chattering classes,
A second class citizen,
The grass roots
16
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Unit 34
Square meal,
Done to a turn,
Eat like a pig
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Unit 35
Hit strike the right note,
Go down with a treat,
Go with a swing
13
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Unit 36
Rattle sb s cage,
Almost burt a blood vessel,
Make my blood boil
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Unit 37
Be a nightmare,
Take your eye off the ball,
Sweep sth under the carpet
16
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Unit 38
A bone of contention,
A bone to pick,
Argue the toss
17
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Unit 39
Marathon talks,
Be given the go ahead,
Fight for your life
16
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Unit 40
Beyond your wildest dreams,
Do yourself the world of good,
Take years off me
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Unit 41
First and foremost,
On balanceby and largein the main,
In the final last analysis
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Unit 42
Ring the changes,
Put your shoulder to the wheel,
Reach for the stars moon
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Unit 43
At stake,
The penny dropped,
For good measure footnote i m no ...
15
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Unit 44
Fat chance,
Get a life,
It will all end in tears
4
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Unit 45
Take the words right out of sb s ...,
Be on message,
Sing from the same hymn sheet
10
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Unit 46
Win your spur,
Be riding high,
Come up trumps
11
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Unit 47
Bone dry,
Rock hard,
Stark naked
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Unit 48
Play gooseberrythird wheel,
Play it cool,
Play it safe
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Unit 49
Http listen to sth with half an ear,
Half baked scheme,
Half measures n
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Unit 50
That makes two of us,
Two can play at that game,
Be two of a kind
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Unit 51
At all hours,
That s sb all over,
All told
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Unit 52
In next to no time,
No end of sth
18
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Unit 53
Hand sth to sb on a plate nobody ...,
Have enough a lot too much on you...,
Step up to the plate
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Unit 54
Have a heart of gold,
Strike gold,
Worth your its weight in gold
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Unit 55
Have the time of your life,
Get the shock of your life,
Scare the life out of sb
17
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Unit 56
Dead and buried,
The kiss of death to sth,
Dead in the water
16
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Unit 57
Bored out of your mindbored stiff...,
Put set turn your mind to somethi...
18
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Unit 58
Harder than i had bargained for,
Give people the hard sell,
Hard and fast rules
17
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Unit 59
Fall from grace,
Fall into the wrong hands
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Unit 60
A woman after my own heart,
Come into your own
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