Share Idioms (DK English for Everyone Idioms, Units 13-17)
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itchy feet
a desire to travel or do something
a desire to stay at home
a disease of the feet
keep your chin up!
be sympathetic
remain cheerful in difficult circumstances
feel sad and disappointed
exercise your chin
be a scatterbrain
a careful person who never forgets anything
a person who travels a lot
a careless person who forgets things easily
bury one's head in the sand
bury an object at the beach
dig a hole in the sand and put your head in it
solve a problem
refuse facing a problem and hope it will go away
thick-skinned
a lizard
not easily upset by criticism or unpleasantness
to have a skin condition or disease
easily upset by criticism or unpleasantness
drop a bombshell
to drop something heavy
to do something dangerous
to argue
to surprise everyone
a drop in the ocean
a shocking piece of news
sth so small it doesn't make an important difference/effect
go swimming in the sea
a droplet of water
don't shoot the messenger
don't get upset at the newspaper
don't shoot a gun at anyone
don't be angry with someone who tells you bad news
don't be angry with someone who tells you good news
dodge a bullet
shoot a gun
move out of the way of something
get hurt
avoid a bad situation or injury
by a whisker
by a very small amount
by a medium amount
by jumping over a cat
by a very large amount
a stone's throw from somewhere/something
very far from something/somewhere
very close to something/somewhere
stacks of sth
a small amount of something
a large number of something
everything but the kitchen sink
a few belongings
only the kitchen sink
almost all your belongings
a memory like a seive
a good memory
a bad memory
to ring a bell
to forget something
to press a doorbell so that it makes a noise
to play an instrument
to be familiar
rack your brain
not make any effort to remember sth
think hard, make an effort to remember sth
think about something a little bit but not much
