Family relationships
1. to respect and admire someone (look)
2. to become more adult and mature
1. look up to someone
2. grow up
to visit someone informally
drop in (on someone); drop by/round/over
call in/by/round/ over
come round
to leave, escape
get out (of somewhere)
1. It's just a small part of a much bigger problem: It's just a ___ of the ___
2. When we want to limit her freedom, we say we need to ___ her ___.
1. a tip of the iceberg.
2. clip her wings
1. He really gets on my ___
2. I am fed ___ ___ my job.
1. nerves
2. up with
1. to raise someone (e.g. raise a child)
2. to avoid having to do something (get)
1. bring someone up
2. get out of (doing) something
1. to match, to make a good combination
2. to have a view of something (onto)
1. go with something
2. look (out) onto something
1. to experience or suffer something unpleasant (go)
2. to ask someone professional to come and provide help
1. go through something
2. call someone in/out
1. When you remember the past nostalgically, you talk about the ___ old ___
2. when something will not exist for much longer, you can say their days are ___
1. ...the good old days
2. ... numbered
1. I don't like sports, fotball is not my...
2. They never stop shouting! I'm running out of ___ with them.
1. not my bag / cup of tea / thing
2. patience
1. to resemble a member of the family in appearance or character
2. to think about something that hapened in the past (look)
1. take after someone
2. look back (on something)
1. to vacate a house or a flat (move)
2 to make something brighter
1. move out
2. brighten something up
1. to begin suddenly (e.g. the fire ... at 5:30)
2. to extinguish something, to stop something burning
1. break out
2. put out
1. When we do not agree, we don't see___ ___ ___
2. To make the situation worse: to add ____ to the ___
1. ...eye to eye
2. to add fuel to the fire
1. This behaviour makes ___ see ___
2.This behaviour makes ___ blood ___
1. makes me see red
2. makes my blood boil
1. to escape being punished for something
2. to speak severely to someone because they have done something wrong
1. get away with something
2. to tell someone off
1. to read something briefly
2. to find something by chance
1. look through something
2. come across something
1. to investigate something
2. to exclude something
1. look into something
2. rule something out
1. The money burns a ___ in your ___
2. I've got money to ___.
1. ... a hole in your pocket
2. ... burn
1. I'm not on ___ ___ with my landlord.
2. I cannot make up ___ ___ about the holiday. Where should I go?
1. good terms
2. my mind
1. to persuade someone to let you do or have something, usually by flattering them (get)
2. to succeed in making someone understand the meaning of what one is saying (get)
1. get round someone
2. get through to someone
1. to give someone accommodation
2. to tolerate something
1. put someone up
2. put up with something
1. to operate, to start making a loud voice
2. to cause something to start working or happening
1. go off
2. set something off
1. when we have a good relantionship from the very beginning we get on like a ___ ___ ___
2. to get from a difficult situation into even worse situation = jump out of a ___ ___ and into ___
1. house on fire
2. frying pan, fire
1. She has been down ___ ___ ___ since she lost her job.
2. I was in two ___ ___buying the house, it was difficult to decide.
1. in the dumps
2. in two minds about...