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 |