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15 Commonly used Idioms you should know!
First in, best dressed
- The first people to do something will have the advantage
A plum job
- Easy pleasant job that also pays well
- She got a plum job in an insurance company
Bad apple
- A discontented, troublemaking or dishonest person
Big cheese
- An important person in a company or organization
- Boss, big gun, fat cat
Change one’s tune
- To alter one’s opinion about something Express a very different opinion
Chase rainbows
- To pursue unrealistic goals; pursue an illusory goals
- You just can’t chase rainbows throughout your life, you should look for a stable career
Couch potato
- A lazy person who watches a great deal of TV
- My brother is a couch potato!
Hot potato
- A controversial subject or difficult project that is best avoided
- He knew that the issue was a hot potato, therefore he avoided the journalists completely
Get in shape
Exercise in order to improve one’s physical condition
Go bananas
- Go crazy
- We all went bananas during the Holi party
- Have the time of your life
- When you enjoy yourself very much
- Last summer I had the time of my life when I visited nanu!
Hit the books
- To study
- Considering the exams are approaching, you need to hit the books
Hit the sack
- To go to bed
- Post the elongated and exhausting day we just hit the sack
In a nutshell
- Expressed in a few words; in short; briefly; to make the long story short
Up in the air
- Not yet decided; unresolved; still to be settled; uncertain; unknown
- Are your birthday plans up in the air???
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