Idioms
The tickets were _______ cheap so we decided to go.
dirt
To not succeed despite trying many times
do something until you are blue in the face
To talk through your hat
talk nonsense
A body of relatively impermeable or distinctly less permeable material stratigraphically adjacent to one or more aquifers
confining bed
I've got to be home by midnight, so I'd better
To annoy or irritate
get on someone's nerves
To fight fire with fire
use a dangerous way to solve a problem
Describes groundwater confined under hydrostatic pressure
artesian
You might be getting older, but you're nowhere near _______ yet.
over the hill
To be too old
be over the hill
Stream-deposited sediment
alluvium
The arrangement of events in their proper sequence in time
chronology
Sales are increasing, but our business still isn't _______ yet.
out of the woods
To have wealthy parents
to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
Solid rock that underlies unconsolidated sedimentary deposits and soil
bedrock
Describes a rock that fractures before sustaining deformation
brittle
It was meant to be a surprise party, but he _______ so he knew it was planned.
got wind of it
To understand
to get the picture
The action by which a fluid, such as water, is drawn up in small interstices or tubes as a result of surface tension
capillary action
A hard, resistant, and impermeable layer of rock that overlies and protects a layer of softer material
caprock