English Idioms Set C
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sunnybrook76 on November 21, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 can't make heads or tails of something | can't understand something at all; find something confusing and illogical |
| catch one's eye | attract someone's attention or interest |
| catch some Zs | sleep for a while; take a nap |
| change one's mind | decide to do something different from what had been decided earlier |
| chicken | cowardly |
| chow | food |
| chow down | eat |
| a cinch | something that's very easy to do |
| cool | neat, special, wonderful |
| Cool it! | calm down |
| cost someone an arm and a leg | cost a lot; be very expensive |
| couch potato | someone who spends too much time watching TV |
| cram | try to learn as much as possible in a very short time |
| crash course | short course designed to give a lot of knowledge or information in a very short time |
| cut it out | stop doing something that's annoying |
| Don't count your chickens before they hatch | Don't assume that something will happen until it has happened |
| dicey | uncertain; taking too much of a chance |
| ditch class | skip class or play hookey |
| do a bang-up job | do a very good job; do very well at something |
| down in the dumps | depressed; "blue" |
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