getting down to work
1. to postpone, to decide to do something later
2. to record in writing what someone is saying
1. put something off
2. put/write/take something
1. to catch an illness
2. to recover from an illness
1. to pick something up
2. to get over something
1. I'm ... cloud ...
2.I'm ... the moon
1. on cloud nine
2.over the moon
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. She is pregnant.
2. He is naked.
1. She's got a bun in the oven.
2. He's in his birthday suit. (He's in the altogether.)
1. to give something (e.g.homework) to somebody in authority (e.g. a teacher)
2. to distribute something (e.g. copies) to people (students)
1. hand something in
2. hand something out
1. to develop an interest in something and start doing it
2. to stop doing or using something (totally)
1. take something up
2. to cut something out
When you do something because it's exciting, though maybe dangerous, you do it just ____ _____.
... for kicks
1. to begin suddenly (e.g. the fire ... at 5:30)
2. to extinguish something, to stop something burning
1. break out
2. put something out
1. Excuse me for swearing.
2. swear words
1. Pardon / Excuse my French.
2. four-letter words
1. to pass an exam but with a very low grade
2. read a text quickly in order to find information
1. scrape through (an exam)
2. look/read/go through (a text)
1. to increase in weight
2. to reduse something, to consume less of something
1. to put on weight
2. to cut down on something
When somebody is depressed and sad you can say he is down ___ ___ ___
in the dumps
1. to investigate something
2. to exclude something
1. look into something
2. rule something out
She didn't know what to say, she was at a ___ ___ ___ .
loss for words.
idioms:
1. When you memorise something, you learn it by ...
2. When you work late into the night, you burn the ... ...
1. heart
2. midnight oil
1. to lose consiousness for a short time
2. to recover consiousness
1. pass out
2. come round
accept an unpleasant situation because you can't change it.
Just ___ and ____ it.
grin and bear it
1. to operate, to start making a loud voice
2. to cause something to start working or happening
1. to go off
2. to set something off
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. to reach the same standard or position as someone else (= to become as good as someone else)
2. finally to start work on something, usually difficult
1. catch up with someone
2. get down to something
Idioms:
1. If you feel completely well again, you feel as right as ...
2. How do you say that it's easy to talk about but difficult to do? That' s ... said than ...
1. ...as rain.
2. (That's) easier said than done.
1. When somebody is envious/jealous, you can say they suffer from ___ ____
2. someone who complains all the time is a ...
1. sour grapes
2. a misery guts
1. We got on really well - we got like a house ... ...
2. To make the situation worse: to add ____ to the ___
1. on fire
2. to add fuel to the fire
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