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American idioms unit 1:

1. walk on air
2. cost an arm and a leg
3. have an ax to grind
4. break one’s back
5. take a back seat
6. leave someone holding the bag
7. carry the ball
8. beat the band
9. jump on the bandwagon
10. get up on the wrong side of the bed
11. rock the boat
12. have a bone to pick with someone
13. make no bones about something
14. throw the book at someone
15. hit the book
16. get down to the brass tacks
17. kick the bucket
18. take the bull by the horns
19. bite the bullet
20. get butter flies in the stomach
21. sell like hot cakes
22. on cloud nine

23. go over something with a fine-tooth comb

1. get hot under the collar
2. paint someone into a corner
3. in debt up to one’s eyeballs
4. give someone the third degree
5. in the doghouse
6. lay one’s cards on the table
7. call someone one the carpet
8. build a castles in the air
9. has the cat got your tongue
10. chew someone out
11. let sleeping dogs lie
12. go on the dole
13. dot the i’s and cross the t’s
14. get one’s ducks in a row
15. bit the dust
16. walk on eggshells
17. jump off the deep end

eyeballs

third degree

doghouse

cards

carpet

castles

tongue

chew

sleeping dogs

dole

t’s

ducks

ball

band

bandwagon

bed

boat

bone

air

arm

ax

back

back seat

bag

bones

book

book

cloud

fine-tooth comb

collar

corner

dust

eggshells

deep end

brass

tacks

bucket

horns

bullet

butter flies

hot cakes