To beat around the bush.
To avoid talking about what is important.
To cut corners.
To do something in the easiest, cheapest, or fastest way.
To miss the boat.
To lose an opportunity to do something by being slow to act.
Once in a blue moon.
Not very often.
To pull yourself together.
To become calm and behave normally again after being angry or upset.
Speak of the devil.
Something you say when the person you were talking about appears unexpectedly.
The straw that broke the camel´s back (Also "the final/last straw"
The last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation.
To feel under the weather.
To feel ill, not well.
A storm in a teacup.
A lot of unnecessary anger and worry about a matter that is not important.
