📔 bump heads with
📋Meaning
To clash with another person on a particular issue.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Monica and I are always bumping heads with each other about how to go about these reports because she wants to start writing, while I think we should research first.
🗣I just know I'm going to have to bump heads with Ted again about this budget—we always want to cut different things.
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📔 steely-eyed
📋Meaning
With or having a fierce intensity in one's expression.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The teacher fixed a steely-eyed gaze upon me when I started joking around during class.
🗣I could feel my ex-girlfriend staring at me, steely-eyed, from across the bar.
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📔 scream (one's) head off
📋Meaning
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone.
🗣The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band.
🗣Don't bother listening to the crazies who stand on street corners and scream their heads off at passersby.
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📔 publicity hound
📋Meaning
Someone who seeks to have the attention of the public constantly focused on him- or herself, typically by means of attracting media coverage.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The former actor's run at politics is seen by many as just another stunt by a publicity hound desperate to keep the spotlight on himself.
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📔be on (one's) best behavior
📋Meaning
To be very polite or exercise exceptionally good manners. Primarily heard in US.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Now, you kids must be on your best behavior for your Auntie this weekend!Good morning, class.
🗣I hope everyone was on their best behavior for the substitute teacher yesterday.
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📔 pearly whites
📋Meaning
A person's set of teeth.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Be sure to brush your pearly whites twice a day, or you might end up getting a cavity!
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📔 be running on fumes
📋Meaning
To be continuing to operate with no or very little enthusiasm, energy, or resources left.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I've been painting the house for four hours every night after work, and I am seriously running on fumes at this point.
🗣 We were running on fumes by the time our team made it to the championship round.
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📔 throw a wobbly
📋Meaning
To suddenly become very upset or intensely angry and make a big display of it. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣John threw a wobbly at work after the boss criticized his report. Needless to say, he won't be welcome back in the office on Monday.
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📔 Rain or shine
📋Meaning
Used to indicate that something will happen no matter what. This is one of the rare idioms that’s also often used literally, for outdoor events that’ll take place whether it rains or not.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I’ll see you at the airport, rain or shine.”
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📔 jazz something / someone up
📋Meaning
to make something or someone more interesting, appealing, exciting or stylish
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I love how French women dress. They know just how to jazz a simple outfit up with something very unique.
🗣 What time can we get into the gym tomorrow afternoon? We need to jazz it up for the school dance.
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📔 Beat the pants off
📋Meaning
to easily win against someone by a large margin or score; to surpass or be more successful than another.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My son was so embarrassed when his younger sister beat the pants off him in chess.
🗣When it comes to ticket sales the Harry Potter movies beat the pants off the Twilight series.
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📔go off the rails
📋Meaning 1
To go into a state of chaos, dysfunction, or disorder.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Our project has started going off the rails ever since the manager up and quit last month.
Meaning 2
To become crazy, eccentric, or mentally unhinged; to begin acting in an uncontrollable, inappropriate and/or socially unacceptable manner.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My youngest son started going off the rails shortly after getting into drugs in high school.
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📔 Wrap your head around something
📋Meaning
Understand something complicated
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I just couldn't wrap my head around what had happened.
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📔 ants in your pants
📋Meaning
to be so excited, nervous or anxious about something that it's hard to be still and calm.
🧐Notice
This idiom describes a kind of excitement that can be either positive (excited about something) or more negative (anxious or worried about something).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My children have ants in their pants because tomorrow is Christmas and they are excited about their presents.
🗣Every time we take our children to church they jump around like they've got ants in their pants and I constantly have to ask them to sit down.
🗣I've got ants in my pants because I have to give a presentation at work tomorrow.
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📔 the last straw
📋Meaning
a further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"his affair was the last straw"
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📔 jam session
📋Meaning
an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The musical siblings then invite Lisa over to Billie’s studio for a special jam session.
🗣 Playing some favorites by The Allman Brothers Band during a jam session led to the birth of tribute group Midnight Rider.
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📔 taken aback
📋Meaning
to be surprised, shocked or confused about something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I was taken aback when your mother asked if I’m having trouble getting pregnant.
🗣 My friend was taken aback when I asked him if he smokes weed.
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📔in the blink of an eye
📋Meaning
So quickly as to seem almost imperceptible (i.e., in the space of time it takes a person to blink).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The high-speed camera reveals how the frog uses its specialized tongue to capture the insect in the blink of an eye.
🗣Working on Wall Street, you get used to massive financial changes happening in the blink of an eye.
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📔 take a powder
📋Meaning
depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When he saw the police coming, the thief decided to take a powder.”
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📔 Head in the sand
📋Meaning
to ignore or refuse to think about a problem or something unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I knew I needed to finish my paper before exams started but I just kept my head in the sand and now I won't have time to finish it before its due.
🗣You've had your head in the sand about this marriage for two years and now I'm too tired to work on it. I want a divorce!
🗣Here are three overdue bills! I can't believe you're burying your head in the sand again.
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📔 behind the eight ball
📋Meaning
In a challenging situation; at a disadvantage. An "eight ball" is one of the numbered balls used in the game of pool, and the last one supposed to be hit into a pocket. If the eight ball is accidentally hit into a pocket prematurely, the player will lose, and it therefore needs to be avoided.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If we don't leave early tomorrow, we'll be behind the eight ball, and I doubt we'll reach the cabin by dusk.
🗣Because I got the flu, I'm behind the eight ball with my Christmas shopping.
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📔 Make a mountain out of a molehill
📋Meaning
To exaggerate the severity of a situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She shouted at him angrily for being five minutes late, but it really didn’t matter that much. She really made a mountain out of a molehill.”
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📔 in the middle of nowhere
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In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.
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🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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📔 (as) silent as the grave
📋Meaning
Totally silent, especially as produces an ominous or foreboding effect.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I knew something was wrong when I walked into the meeting room and all the members of the board were silent as the grave.
🗣I hate staying in my grandma's house. It gets as silent as the grave at nighttime, and it really creeps me out.
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📔 slanging match
📋Meaning
A bitter argument or dispute in which each side hurls numerous insults, accusations, or verbal abuse at one another. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣At first, I thought we were just going through a rough patch in our relationship, but lately, it seems like every night Janet and I get into a slanging match with each other. It might be time to end things.
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📔get wise to (someone or something)
📋To become fully aware or cognizant of someone or something, especially if he, she, or it is suspicious, illegal, or malicious in nature or intention.
🗣We'd better watch our step—I think the police are getting wise to us!
🗣I hope my brother doesn't get wise to my scheme to take over the company.
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📔 one-up (someone)
📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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📔 pearly whites
📋Meaning
A person's set of teeth.
🤔For example ⬇️
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📔 now (someone) has gone and done it
📋Meaning
Someone has just done something very grave, foolish, and/or irreparable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"Now you've gone and done it! My mother's gonna tan our hides for breaking that!
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