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35 Cards in this Set
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To beat it |
To go away |
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To bug |
To annoy |
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To bung |
To throw/give/put |
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To chuck |
To throw or give |
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To flog |
To sell |
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To hammer sb |
To beat sb/another team very early and very convincingly |
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To knock |
To criticise |
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To nip to |
To go somewhere for a short time |
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To pop |
To quickly put |
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To scoff |
To eat quickly and greedly |
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To scrounge |
To borrow, especially money |
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To stink |
To have a bad smell |
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Airy-fairy |
Not practical or realistic |
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Chock-a-block |
Very crowded with people or cars (not used before nouns) |
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Clapped-out |
Old and in bad condition |
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Daft |
Silly, not sensible |
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Dodgy |
1) risky and dangerous 2) dishonest and untrustworthy 3) weak (for parts of the body) |
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Gross |
Disgusting to look at, taste or think about |
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Hush-hush |
Secret |
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Lousy |
Bad |
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Mucky |
Dirty |
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Nippy |
Cold (used for weather) |
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Posh |
Expensive and upper class |
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Tacky |
Poor quality, cheap and showing a lack of good taste |
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Tatty |
Old and in bad condition |
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Weird |
Strange |
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To chicken out |
Not to do sth because you are afraid |
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To chuck (sth) out |
To get rid of sth |
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To conk out |
To break down (for machines and cars) |
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To cough up |
To pay sb money (often used as a request) |
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To hit it off |
If two people hit it off, they really like one another (generally used when two people meet for the first time and mainly with the pronouns "we" and "they") |
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To rip sb off |
To cheat sb out of money |
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To set sb back |
To cost |
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To slag people off |
To criticise sb |
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To wind (sb) up |
To tease sb in order to annoy or provoke them |
