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Idioms about communication
autor: Ania01
to get one's wires crossedto have misunderstanding with the listener
in the loopbe aware of information that only few people know about
out of the loopdo not know something that other people know
to keep in mindbe aware of sth / consider / remember
to keep/stay in touchto have contact with sb / maintain
to keep someone postedprovide sb with the information
to keep sth under one's hatto keep secret
on the same pagehave the same opinion
on one's mindthinking about sth
to play phone tagrepeatedly call each other with no success and leave a message on voicemail
to call someone's bluffchallenge sb to do sth that they threatened to do
to clear the airmake situation less tense by speaking openly and frankly
to drop someone a linecontact sb, by e.g. writing e-mail
to get a word edgewisewhen you want to say sth but it's very difficult because other people are talking without pausing
to get sth off one's chestconfess sth or critisize/complain about sth
to get the messageto understand something that is not being said directly
to get to the pointprzechodzić do sedna sprawy
to pull someone's legtry to get a person to believe something to believe sth that it's not true
to put someone on the spotyou ask sb a difficult spontaneous question
to put it in a nutshellto summarise
to put your foot in your mouthyou say sth you regret later