cost an arm and leg | be very expensive (body) | |
see eye to eye | get on with each other | |
keep a straight face | look serious | |
put your foot down | say no to sth | |
can't face | dont feel like, feel unable to | |
get your head around | understand | |
keep an eye on | pay attention to sth | |
put your foot in sth | say the wrong thing | |
catch your eye | attract your attention | |
face to face | very close to | |
get cold feet about | change your mind | |
break away | escape from | |
break in | interrupt// enter a building by force | |
break off | end sth suddenly | |
break out | start suddenly (violate events)// loose control of feelings | |
break down | fail to function | |
break with | give up sth | |
break through | make a discovery// appear | |
break up | end a relationship | |
become of | happen to | |
blink at | show surprise at | |
bank out | depend on | |
blow over | stop | |
book up | reserve | |
bear out | support the truth of | |
blow up | explode | |
brush up | improve | |
build up | collect | |
black and blue all over | covered with bruises | |
behind bars | in prison | |
full of beans | very lively | |
drop a brick | do/ say sth tackless | |
browned off | fed up | |
brainwave | sudden, clever idea | |
out of the blue | suddenly and unexpectadly | |
break even | show neither loss nor profit | |
cost a bomb | be very expensive (no body) | |
by and large | on the whole | |
in cold blood | with no emotions | |
beat about/ around the bush | avoid saying directly | |
take the bull by the horns | meet with the challenge without hesitance | |
ring as bell | seem familiar/ remind sb about sth | |
lay bare | reveal | |
blue-eyed boy | favourite child | |
(hang) in the balance | (be) uncertain | |
be broke | have no money | |
in sbs black books | unpopular | |
make a clean breast of sth | confesss th | |
bolt from the blue | come suddenly | |
in black and white | in the written form | |
kick the bucket | die | |
get your own back | take revenge | |
blessing in disguise | sth positive, although seeming negative at the beginning | |
make sbs blood boil | make sb agressive, angry | |
feel sth in your bones | feel instinctively | |
bark up the wrong tree | make mistake | |
butter the boss up | flatter to a boss | |
hold your breathe | wait impatiiently | |
caught red-handed | caught while doing sth bad | |
deal a blow to | destroy | |
by and large | on the whole, generally speaking | |
see the back | see sb leaving | |
chip off the old block | sb similar to the one of hisparents | |
a wet blanket | sb spoiling sbs fun | |
big-headed | conceited, too self cofindent | |
above board | an honest person | |