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try to keep smth a secret (carpet)

sweep smth under the carpet

be on the alert; watch carefully (eyes)

keep your eyes peeled

you don’t have enough money to buy smth (budget)

my budget doesn't quite stretch to

be sensitive about or feel offended by smth, as a result of smth that happened in your past (shoulder)

to have a chip on your shoulder

Stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development (nip)

nip smth in the bud

Hide while waiting to surprise, attack or catch (wait)

lie in wait

make a mistake that many people make (trap)

fall into the trap of doing smth

stop considering smth (lose)

lose sight of smth

refuse to do smth or change your mind about smth (dig)

to dig your heels

The (first, second, etc.) stage or portion of a trip (journey)

the first leg of the journey

feeling that smth is right even if you can't explain why (feeling)

gut feeling

consider the good and the bad aspects of smth before reaching a decision (weigh)

weigh smth up

at a time of day when it's not dark (broad)

in broad daylight

try in a determined way to achieve smth (length)

go to great length

Make somebody angry or upset (wind)

wind smb up

upset smb by doing or saying more than you should (mark)

overstep the mark

stay where you are without taking any action (tight)

sit tight

smth about which different people have different views (opinion)

it's a matter of opinion

to be threatened with a gun (at)

at gunpoint

you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it (history)

the rest is history

feel both positive and negative about smth (feelings)

have nmixed feelings about smth

develop a strong urge to travel or move from place to place (feet)

get itchy feet

A lot of anger and worry about smth unimportant (storm)

a storm in a teacup

suffer the worst part os smth unpleasant (brunt)

bear the brunt of smth

face a difficult situation in a very direct and confident way (bull)

take the bull by the horns

in or into an isolated place (track)

off the beaten track

make smb think that their opinion may not be correct (shake)

shake someone's belief

To make a prediction, estimate, or conjecture (guess)

to hazard a guess

tak a particula course of action (road)

go down that road

you mean that smth is true, whether people think it's a good thing or bad (rightly)

rightly or wrongly