Idioms & Phrases
Idiom
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Meaning
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To move heaven and earth
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To make a supreme effort
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No avail
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Without any result
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Bark up the wrong tree
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Accuse or denounce the wrong person
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Keep one at bay
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Keep one at a distance
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Make a clean breast of it
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Confess – especially when a person has
done a wrong thing
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Have a card up one’s sleeve
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Have a secret plan in reserve
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Like a cat on hot bricks
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Very nervous
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Cat and dog life
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Life full of quarrels
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Cock and bull story
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Made up story that one should not believe
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Cry for the moon
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Ask for the impossible
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The pros and cons
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The various aspects of a matter in detail
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Be in a tight corner
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In a very difficult situation
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Cross one’s t’s and dot
one’s i’s
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Be precise, careful and exact
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Keep one’s fingers crossed
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The anxiety in which you hope that nothing
will upset your plans
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In Dutch
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In trouble
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Wild goose chase
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a foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit
of something unattainable.
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