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 |