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EXPRESSIONS

 Here you can check, comment upon, explain, review or learn as many expressions as you wish. We hope they will inspire and motivate you to brush up your English in a pleasant way.  We are constantly enriching the stock with new expressions. If you think you can explain some of the expressions, please do it. We will post the best answers. 

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A

• A bird in the hand is a certainty but a bird in the bush may sing.

• about time SEND EXPLANATION

• and then some

• a case of the emperor's clothes  SEND EXPLANATION

• a day after the fair  SEND EXPLANATION

• at the back of beyond SEND EXPLANATION

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B

• bark up the wrong tree

• baring one's midriff

• blow a raspberry

• Bob’s your uncle! SEND EXPLANATION

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C

• It's raining cats and dogs

• cheap skate SEND EXPLANATION

• chicken feed SEND EXPLANATION

• chip of the old block  SEND EXPLANATION

• call it a day  SEND EXPLANATION

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• Easy come easy go  SEND EXPLANATION

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F

• fingers in the dyke

• fly by the seat of the pants

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G

• give the game away  SEND EXPLANATION

• go bananas

• go on

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H

• have a frog in one's throat

• have a chip on one's shoulder  SEND EXPLANATION

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I

• I am 16

• It's raining cats and dogs

• "It ain't over till the fat lady sings!"  
  

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J

• jack of all trades SEND EXPLANATION

• Jack

• jackass

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K

• knock it  SEND EXPLANATION

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L

• lay a ghost  SEND EXPLANATION

• lead a horticulture

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• making a splash

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• nothing to write home about  SEND EXPLANATION

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• on the carpet  SEND EXPLANATION

• on the QT SEND EXPLANATION

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P

• play leapfrog

• put the wind up

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Q

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R

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S

• shoot from the hip  SEND EXPLANATION

• (to be) snoopy

• sweeping  SEND EXPLANATION

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T

• that's sweeping.  SEND EXPLANATION

• to take someone up on

• to take it out on someone

• through thick and thin

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U

W

• water off a duck

• way to on

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