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

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