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Travelling - Idioms

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  • TO REINVENT THE WHEEL
    To take a round thing and make it square.
    To come up with a great new idea for something.
    Waste time or effort to create something that already exists
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  • TO HAVE ITCHY FEET
    To feel uncomfortable staying in one place.
    To have a strong urge to travel or move from place to place.
    To find it difficult to walk.
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  • TO ROCK THE BOAT
    To rock a baby to sleep
    To do something that might cause trouble or upset a stable s
    To throw rocks at a boat
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  • TO BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK
    To take a right turn
    To be doing something correctly
    To be at the right running track
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  • TO PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
    To put something you don't want into your shopping cart
    To annoy a horse
    To do things in the wrong order
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  • TO HIT THE ROAD
    To hurt yourself in an accident
    To begin a journey
    To hit the road
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  • BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST
    If you do something stupid your mum will always find out
    Bad news is always more interesting than good news
    Bad news becomes known quicker than good news
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  • TO BE A BACKSEAT DRIVER
    To give unnecessary or unwelcome advice
    To drive from the back seat of a car
    To be unable to drive
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  • TO BE ON A ROCKY ROAD
    To be on a raid with a lot of rocks on it
    To be moving in a bad direction in your life
    To be moving in the wrong direction
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  • TO BE IN THE SAME BOAT
    To be in a boat with someone else
    To be in the same great position as someone else
    To be in the same difficult situation as someone else
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  • TO BE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
    To fail to be in control of a difficult situation
    To be a normal road user in Vietnam
    To be asleep on the steering wheel of your car
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  • TO MISS THE BOAT
    To miss a boat
    To fail to take advantage of an opportunity because you don'
    To wish that the boat would come back and talk to you
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  • TO SAIL THROUGH
    To make something look easy to achieve
    To make something look difficult to achieve
    To cross a junction without looking
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  • ROAD RAGE
    Anger or violence between drivers, often caused by difficult
    To be angry at the road
    an angry road
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  • SMOOTH SAILING
    To move quietly and smoothly
    To be rich and powerful
    To have no problems
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  • TO BE AT A CROSSROADS
    At a point where an important decision or choice has to be m
    To be near a noisy (cross) road.
    To be between two roads
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