| become of | happen to |
| built up | accumulate |
| balance against | assess in relation to |
| bank on | depend on |
| stop and forgot | blow over |
| book up | reserve |
| bear out | support |
| blow up | explode |
| brush up | improve |
| break through | become visible |
| black and blue all over | covered with bruises |
| by and large | on the whole |
| behind bars | in prison |
| full of beans | very lively |
| drop a brick | do/say sth tactless |
| browned off | fed up |
| a brainwave | sudden clever idea |
| out of the blue | suddenly and unexpectedly |
| break even | show neither profit nor loss |
| cost a bomb | be very expensive |
| beat about/around the bush | not to say something straightforward |
| take the bull by its horns | to confront difficulties |
| ring a bell | to sound familiar |
| laid bare | to reveal, explain |
| blue-eyed boy | a favorite student |
| golden boy | a favorite student |
| hang in the balance | remain doubtful |
| be broke | not to have money |
| be in sb's black book | afoul |
| make a clean brest of | make a confession |
| a bolt from the blue | a sudden, shocking surprise or turn of events |
| in black and white | in print or writing |
| get one's own back | get revenge |
| make one's blood boil | frustrate, get on one's nerves |
| feel sth in one's bones | have a feeling |
| bark up the wrong tree | focus on the unimportant |
| butter up the boss | be unduly nice |
| don't hold your breath | sth that you say in order to tell someone that an event is not likely to happen |
| caught red-handed | discover in the act of committing a crime |
| deal a blow | strike sb |
| see the back | be finished with sb |
| have no choice in | wybór w |
| be consistent with | być spójnym z |
| belong to | należeć do |
| aim at | celować w |
| agreeable to | do zaakceptowania |
| careless about | niedbały o |
| bored with | znudzony czymś |
| concentrate on | skupić się na |
| confined to | skazany na |
| apprehensive about | bojaźliwy o |
| bear with me | proszę poczekać |
| blow one's top | fly into rage |
| be baffled by | be confused by sth |
| coincide with | sth is on the same day that sth else |
| cruel to | okrutny dla |
| on the spur of the moment | spontaneously |
| be blessing in disguise | szczęście w nieszczęściu |
| drive a hard bargain | stawiać twarde warunki |
| have a bee in one's bonnet | have an obssession about |
| have butterflies in one's stomach | mieć motyle w brzuchu/be nervous |
| be on the verge of doing sth | be about to happen |
| have no recollection of sth | don't remember |
| hand in | złożyć coś |
| at the crack of the dawn | very, very early |
| matter to sb | mean |
| postpone | call off |
| under suspicion of doing sth | be suspected |