idiom spring
Terms
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copy deck
- run across
- to find something accidently or unexpectedly(v)
- grungy
- very dirty(adj)
- face the music
- have to face the bad news
- take a raincheck
- postpone an invitation until a later time(vi)
- come up
- be mentioned or talked about in conversation(vi)
- lead up on
- read about or research in detail
- stay up
- not go to bed(vi)
- a bed of roses
- easy life
- ask out
- invite on a date(vt)
- airhead
- insane,no common sense
- drink up
- finish your drink completely(vt separable)
- uptight
- quiet nervous
- I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
- very hungry
- crack up
- laugh, make someone laugh(vT/I)
- bluffing
- lie,pretending
- You can say that again
- I agree
- make up with
- get back together,bury the hatch, become friendly again after argument or disagreement
- fix one up
- arrange a date or appointment for someone; also put~ (vt)
- look up
- find information about
- pull up
- stops, often for a short time(vi)
- It's a steal
- good bargain
- grab a bite
- eat something quickly(v)
- get it
- understand
- It costs an arm and a leg
- very expensive
- bombed the test
- terrible on the test/drunk
- be Greek to
- be not understood by someone, no idea
- go over
- read, review, study, look over, and read over
- tie the knot
- get married(v)
- cool
- fine, great, terrific(adj)
- junk food
- snack food that isn't nutritious, like potato chips or candy(nU)
- Time flies
- Time goes fast
- brush up on
- improve your knowledge of something already learned but partly forgotten(vt)
- I have a crush on you
- romatic/respect way
- bazillion
- a lot, tons(adj)
- I'm dying of thirst
- very thirst
- rush into
- forcefully persuade you to do it without giving you time to really decide(vt ~into~)
- in your face
- description of a attitude
- check into
- say who you are when you arrive at a hotel so that you can be given a key for your room(vt) also ~in
- have over
- invite someone to visit one's home(vt)
- under the weather
- feeling ill or bad(adj)
- It slipped my mind
- forget
- pipe down
- become quiet or quieter
- southpaw
- left handed
- seal up
- package(vt separable)
- pie in the sky
- peace of cake;really good
- chicken
- cowardly
- Can you spot me?
- see,help
- put up
- provide someone with a place to stay temporarily(vt)
- What's up
- greeting like What's going on
- dress to kill
- wear fancy or beautiful clothes(vi)
- old flame
- a previous boyfriend or girlfriend
- ball and chain
- something which you don't like but can't get rid off
- read up on
- read about or research in detail
- mumbo jumbo
- noncense talk
- go in one ear and out the other
- be not understood (due to lack of interest)
- dorky
- stupid, inept, or unfashionable(v)
- chip on his shoulder
- have very bad feeling about
- grab a bite to eat
- get food
- come by
- obtain,get
- be swamped
- be extremely busy
- apple of my eye
- special to me
- turn off
- to disaffect, alienate, or disgust(v)
- bucks
- money(n)
- goof around/off
- spend time doing nothing productive, playing around
- get into
- cause someone to become involved in a difficult situation, often without intending to(vt ~into~)
- buddy
- friend(nC)
- polish up
- brush up(vt separable)
- back up
- support
- Don't flatter yourself
- show off proud
- guts
- bravery and determination(n)
- kill time
- spend time to do nothing
- be after
- be trying to find, purchase, go after(v)
- It's on the tip of my tongue
- I know but can't say
- flick
- movie(n)
- I'm broke
- no money
- go over
- read,review,study,look over,read over
- diamond in the laugh
- somebody who have potential but it doen't appear
- couch potato
- lazy,watching TV much
- stumped
- try but don't understand(adj)
- I bet
- I see, I understand, I can imagine, I guess(vt)
- bump into
- meet someone you know when you have not planned to meet them, run across(vt) comp: come across thing
- talk into
- persuade someone to do something(vt ~into~)
- find out
- learn or determine, gain knowledge of
- grow up
- rise(vi)
- piece of cake
- very easy
- run across
- find something accidently or unexpectedly, come across
- wear the pants
- in control
- beat up
- hurt someone badly by hitting or kicking them again and again(vt separable)
- posh
- be rich(no common)
- build up
- encourage(vt)
- goofy
- silly,funny
- make up
- invent something, such as an excuse or a story, often in order to deceive(vt separable)
- Bling-bling
- have no idea,much jewel
- freshen up
- make up, make someone or something clean and pleasant(vi)
- back seat driver
- someone nagging
- kick the bucket
- die(v,verycasual)
- kickback
- payment made to someone, esp. illegally, for providing help, a job, or a piece of business (n)
- a big head
- too much self-importance
- push the envelope
- challenge something beyond limit
- look into
- investigate, work out, check into
- make into
- change something into something else(vt ~into~)
- chow down
- eat again
- rip off
- steal, rop, make someone pay too much(vi/t)
- go up
- move higher, rise or increase(vi)
- cheer up
- become more cheerful or make more cheerful(vt)
- be beyond
- go right over one's head, be not understood by someone, too difficult
- peanuts
- cheap(adj)
- jump the gun
- to do something too soon, especially without thinking carefully about it (v)
- It's a rip off
- bad deal,too expensive
- keep one's figers crossed
- hope for good luck, wish someoe good luck(vi for O)
- all ears
- listen carefully(adj)
- find out
- learn or determine, gain knowledge of
- Whatever
- I don't care.
- pick up
- learn a new skill or language by practising it rather than being taught it(vt separable)
- crop up
- happen or appear unexpectedly
- awesome
- very impressive, magnificent, wonderful, great(adj)
- gung ho
- very excited
- break a leg
- have fun
- grow into
- they gradually become big enough to wear them(vt)
- put down
- criticize, make other people seem stupid(vt)
- grand
- great(adj)
- go out with
- take one out,to date or accompany socially on a single date
- shoot up
- increase(vi)
- ahead of time
- early, before something is expected(adv)OPP late
- mix up
- confuse, worry or upset someone(vt separable)
- hit the books
- study
- go along with
- accompany to a social activity, come along with, tag along with(vt)
- no biggie
- no problem
- at first
- early; before something starts; in the beginning, first(adv)
- feel like
- want to do, would like(vt ~ing)
- look up
- find information about
- go bananas
- go wildly enthusiastic (v)
- slob
- messy person(nC)
- dig up
- find something that you have not seen or used for a long time(vt)
- take it easy
- bye,calm down
- figure out
- find an answer to, solve, understand, and make sence of
- come by
- to obtain, get(v)
- liven up
- become or make more interesting or exciting(vt separable)
- ring up
- call; record the money that has been paid by a customer by pressing buttons on a cash register(vt separable)
- hang in there
- don't give up,you can do it
- It's up to you
- depends on you
- bring up
- care for a child until it is an adult, often giving it particular beliefs(vt separable)
- turn down
- refuse an invitation or other offer(vt separable)
- tune into
- watch or listen to a particular television or radio programme or station(vt)
- go with
- date on a regular basis(old)
- fender bender
- a car accident in which a car is slightly damaged (n)
- put up
- set or arrange(vt)
- take one up on
- accept an invitation or other offer, You're on.(vt)
- get the message
- see the writing on the wall and finally understand the consequences of a situation or action
- hold your horses
- calm down
- get up
- leave the bed, OPP go to bed(v); stand, rise to the feet OPP sit down
- stand one up
- cancel the date at the last minute
- be a thorn in one's side
- someone or something that keeps annoying you or causing you trouble
- cheesy
- cheap or of low quality(too much)(adj)
- jerk
- a person who is rude, insensitive, or annoying(nC)
- go out on a limb
- take a risk
- brush up on
- improve again
- turn up
- be found and appear (after being lost or misplaced)
- tear up
- refuse to accept it or be controlled by it any more(vt separable)
- broke
- not have any or enough money(adj)
- be free
- be available for some occasion(adj)
- take up
- start doing a particular job or activity(vt separable)
- be loaded
- be drunken,very rich
- call it a day
- finish
- pull into
- move in that direction and stops there(vt)
- give me hand
- help me,crap for me
- A leopard can't change his spots
- don't change in fact
- barf
- vomit,throw up(v)
- go into
- start doing a particular type of work(vt)
- be after
- to be trying to find, to pursue,go after(v)
- nuts about
- really like someone or something a lot(adj)
- look into
- examine the facts about a problem or situation(vt)
- freebie
- something free
- rule of thumb
- in general(when giving advice)
- ball
- a thoroughly good time(n)
- catch on
- understand quickly or be a quick learner
- cut it out
- stop it(vi)
- beats me
- I don't know
- pig out
- eat
- mayday
- help
- pull an all night
- studying all night
- put up
- show or express a particular type of opposition to something(vt)
- break up with
- end relationship, stop dating
- joshing me
- kidding me
- come up with
- discover, invent and suggest, think up
- booboo
- a small cut or injury(child's word, n)
- know the ropes
- know how to do or details
- own up
- admit that you have done something wrong(vi to~)
- blow up
- exprode, get angry(vt)
- get with it
- pay attention, concentrate start(vi)
- come into
- receive it as a result of the death of a relative(vt)
- set up
- formally establish a new company, organization, system, way of working, etc(vt separable)
- hyper
- too energetic(adj)
- blow it
- make a mistake, ruin, destroy,lose your chance(vi/t)
- see one's point
- understand one's opinion or thought and catch one's drift
- split up
- devide into(vi into~)
- love handles
- a layer of extra fat around the middle of a person's body(n)
- no big deal
- not important, ne need to worry, no problem(adj)
- pull the plug
- give up (project etc)(v)
- screw up
- make a mistake, or to spoil something(vi separable)
- skin of your teeth
- can just barely do
- come up with
- discover, invent,suggest
- speak up
- tell speak more loudly(vi)
- burst into
- suddenly begin(vt)
- check out
- go and see what someone or something is about, get information(v)
- not make head or tail of
- be not able to understand at all
- be beat
- be tired(v)
- let into
- permit one into (vt ~into~)
- blind date
- a date with a stranger
- bottle up
- hold inside(vt separable)
- deck
- to hit and knock down
- fix up with
- arrange for two people to date, set up with
- of course
- naturaly, certainly, what you would expect(adv)
- eyepopper
- very atractive(n)
- get on one's nerves
- irritate, bother, upset(vi)
- I'm stuffed
- very full
- tidy up
- clean(vt)
- turn up
- be found, appear after being lost or misplaced
- get wrong
- misunderstand, get backwards( to understand the opposite)
- catch up
- reach the same quality or standard as someone or something else(vi with~)
- play hooky
- cut class
- flaky
- unreliable
- pull one's leg
- joke,tease someone(v)
- crowd into
- fill it completely(vt)
- look into
- check into, investigate, work out
- hang out
- spend time somewhere, socialize(vi with~)