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Idioms (DK English for Everyone Idioms, Units 13 ...

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  • a stone's throw from somewhere/something
    very close to something/somewhere
    very far from something/somewhere
  • everything but the kitchen sink
    almost all your belongings
    only the kitchen sink
    a few belongings
  • a drop in the ocean
    go swimming in the sea
    a shocking piece of news
    sth so small it doesn't make an important difference/effect
    a droplet of water
  • rack your brain
    think about something a little bit but not much
    not make any effort to remember sth
    think hard, make an effort to remember sth
  • a memory like a seive
    a good memory
    a bad memory
  • stacks of sth
    a large number of something
    a small amount of something
  • don't shoot the messenger
    don't get upset at the newspaper
    don't be angry with someone who tells you bad news
    don't be angry with someone who tells you good news
    don't shoot a gun at anyone
  • to have a heavy heart
    to be sad about sth
    to be overweight
    to be in love with sb
    to be happy about sth
  • by a whisker
    by jumping over a cat
    by a medium amount
    by a very small amount
    by a very large amount
  • drop a bombshell
    to drop something heavy
    to surprise everyone
    to do something dangerous
    to argue
  • keep your chin up!
    be sympathetic
    remain cheerful in difficult circumstances
    feel sad and disappointed
    exercise your chin
  • dodge a bullet
    move out of the way of something
    get hurt
    avoid a bad situation or injury
    shoot a gun
  • make your blood boil
    to be bleeding
    have a blood disease or infectioin
    make you really happy
    make you really angry
  • itchy feet
    a desire to stay at home
    a disease of the feet
    a desire to travel or do something
  • to kick yourself
    to be angry at someone else
    to be angry with yourself
    to remember something
  • to ring a bell
    to forget something
    to be familiar
    to press a doorbell so that it makes a noise
    to play an instrument
  • to have a sinking feeling
    to be surprised by something
    to have a feeling that sth bad is going to happen
    to have a feeling sth good is going to happen
    to be in sinking sand
  • spring to mind
    jump on a trampoline
    come quickly to someone's mind
    not remember something
  • thick-skinned
    easily upset by criticism or unpleasantness
    a lizard
    not easily upset by criticism or unpleasantness
    to have a skin condition or disease
  • to want the earth to swallow you up
    to be embarrassed but deal with it bravely
    to want to jump into a hole
    to want to escape an embarrassing situation
  • be a scatterbrain
    a careful person who never forgets anything
    a careless person who forgets things easily
    a person who travels a lot
  • bury one's head in the sand
    refuse facing a problem and hope it will go away
    dig a hole in the sand and put your head in it
    bury an object at the beach
    solve a problem
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