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Your guess is as good as mine

to have an idea, do not know the answer to a question

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Wouldn't be caught dead

would never like to do something

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Whole nine yards

Everything. All of it

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To hear something straight from the horse's mougth

to hear something from the authoritative source

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Taste of your own medicine

Means that something happens to you, or is done to you, that you have done to someone else

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Take with a grain/pinch of salt

This means not to take what someone says too seriously

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Steal someone's thunder

to take credit for something someone else did

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Speak of the devil

This expression is used when the person you have just been talking about arrives

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Sit on the fence

this is used when someone does not want to choose or make a decision

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see eye to eye

this idiom is used to say that two (or more people) agree on something

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Put wool over other people's eyes

this means to deceive someone into thinking well of them

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Piece of cake

A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple

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Picture paints a thousand words

a visual presentation is far more descriptive than words

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Once in a blue moon

Meaning: happens very rarely

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On the ball

when someone understands the situation well

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Off one's rocker

Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind, senile.

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