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Idioms and phrases

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  • a bear with a sore head
    a poor memory
    irritated/bad mood
    a difficult fact to accept
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  • a bitter pill to swallow
    a wild guess/ a risk
    weakest point of sb's character
    a difficult fact to accept
    a lot of fuss about sth that is not important
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  • a different kettle of fish
    sb who feels uncomfortable
    annoying person/thing
    a totally different situation from the one just mentioned
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  • a fish out of water
    a difficult fact to accept
    irritated/bad mood
    sb who feels uncomfortable
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  • a long shot
    a lot of fuss about sth that is not important
    annoying person/thing
    a wild guess/ a risk
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  • a memory like a sieve
    good memory
    bad memory
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  • a pain in the neck
    Pat
    Mireia and Laura
    Sara
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  • a red rag to a bull
    annoying person/thing
    sb who feels uncomfortable
    action, comment, etc. liable to provoke sb
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  • a storm in a teacup
    annoying person/thing
    a lot of fuss about sth that is not important
    weakest point of sb's character
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  • Achilles heel
    weakest point of sb's character
    a difficult fact to accept
    annoying person/thing
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  • agree to disagree
    agree
    admit Pat is right
    stop arguing because there is no chance of agreement
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  • as a last resort
    have a false idea about sth
    yet, however
    when all else has failed
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  • bark up the wrong tree
    when all else has failed
    false belief
    have a false idea about sth
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  • be all fingers and thumbs
    stupid
    agile
    clumsy
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  • be in a quandary
    to be extremely angry
    be confused; undecided
    be easily deceived/ naive
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  • be in the dark about sth
    out of favour
    be unaware of sth
    really want sth
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