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44 Cards in this Set
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Dirt cheap |
Very inexpensive |
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Down-to-earth |
Honest and direct, sensible and practical |
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To go downhill |
To go down in numbers or quality |
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To make a mountain out of a molehill |
To make a big problem out of a small one |
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Once in a blue moon |
Almost never |
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Out of this world |
Very good, excellent |
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Out of the woods |
Out of the trouble |
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Over the hill |
Getting too old |
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The tip of the iceberg |
Small part of a larger problem |
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Up the creep |
In trouble |
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To win by a landslide |
To get almost all the votes |
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The big time |
A high level of success |
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To call it a day |
To stop doing smth |
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High time |
Almost too late |
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For the time being |
Temporarily, just for pleasure |
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In no time |
Quickly |
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In the nick of time |
Just before it's too late |
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To kill time |
To waste time waiting for smth else to happen |
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To make time |
To do smth although you didn't plan it and you're already busy |
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On the spur of the moment |
Immediately, without planning |
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To take one's time |
Not to hurry |
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The time is right |
It's a good time to do smth |
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The apple of one's eye |
Someone's favourite person |
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Baloney |
Nonsense |
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To cream someone |
To totally beat someone in a game |
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Fishy |
Suspicious, not right or honest |
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To go bananas |
To go crazy |
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Nuts |
Very crazy or upset |
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In a pickle |
In trouble |
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A peach |
A very nice person |
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Peanuts |
A very small amount of money |
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A piece of cake |
Something that is easy to do |
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A lemon |
Something that does not work, usually an electrical appliance or mechanical item |
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Blood is thicker than water |
Relatives are the most important people |
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A bitter pill to swallow |
Smth difficult and unpleasant to experience |
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To cough up |
To pay money |
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To feel it in one's bones |
To know smth, often before seeing it or before it happens |
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A fly in the ointment |
A problem |
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To get burned |
To have a bad experience, to be cheated |
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To give someone a taste of his/her own medicine |
To do smth bad to someone after the person has done the same bad things |
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To have a lot of nerve |
To act so badly and impolitely that it actually takes a courage to do so |
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Sick and tired |
Very annoyed, tired of doing smth |
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To hold one's breath |
To pause, to stop and think |
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To take pains |
To take a lot of trouble to do smth |
