| 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 |