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24 Cards in this Set
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sure enough |
as expected |
I had a feeling we’d get lost, and sure enough, we did. Sure enough, the young Bethelites befriended Jacob. |
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Take it upon oneself to do sth |
to take responsibility to do sth |
She took it upon herself to find out what happened. |
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Count your blessings |
to be grateful for the good things in your life, often to stop yourself becoming too unhappy about the bad things |
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to compound matters |
pra piorar a situação |
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nothing short of |
nothing less than, the equivalent of |
Her words were nothing short of poetic. |
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right from the outset |
desde o começo |
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don't shoot the messenger |
The bearer of bad news should not be held accountable for it. |
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try your hand at sth |
to try doing something for the first time. |
He decided to try his hand at knitting and discovered he was good at it. |
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drive your message/point home |
to state something in a very forceful and effective way. |
The speaker really drove his message home, repeating his main point several times. |
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go out on a limb |
if you go out on a limb, you state an opinion or you do something which is very different to most other people |
I don't think we're going out on a limb in claiming that global warming is a problem that must be addressed. |
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cut from the same cloth |
Very similar in characteristics or behaviors. |
She and her brother are cut from the same cloth. They both tell lies all the time. |
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not all it's cracked up to be (also not everything/what it's cracked up to be) |
to not be as good as people have said. |
The Beatles aren't all they're cracked up to be. |
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thread your way through, between, etc. sth |
to move carefully through a crowded space, changing direction in order to avoid people or things.
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She threaded her way through the crowded hall. |
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have some/no bearing on something |
to be relevant/not relevant to something, or to have an influence/no influence on it |
The fact that she is a woman has no bearing on her fragile nature. |
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be a long time/ten years etc in the making |
to take a long time, ten years etc to make |
The album was 2 years in the making. |
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fast friends |
good, loyal friends. |
The two of them had been fast friends since college. |
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be back on your feet |
to be healthy again after a period of illness. |
We'll soon have you back on your feet again. |
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bend over and backwards (to do sth) (for somenone) |
to work very hard to accomplish sth for someone, to go out of one's way to do something for someone. |
"he will bend over and backwards to help you." |
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all the more reason for (doing sth) |
with even better reason or cause for doing sth. |
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bail out on |
stop supporting someone when they are in trouble. |
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get talked into (doing ) sth |
ser convencido a fazer algo, geralmente ruim |
How did I get talked into this?! |
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It goes without saying. |
Nem precisa dizer. |
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grind to a halt |
To slowly stop. |
Traffic is expected to grind to a halt throughout the West Country as up to a million sightseers make the trip. |
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on the outs |
in a state of disagreement or unfriendliness |
Dick is on the outs with his father. |
