Expressions+in+English

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 **__EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH __**  
 * 1. ****Common Phrases In English **
 * 2. ****Idiomatic Expressions **
 * 3. ****Groups of Idiomatic Verbal Expressions **
 * 4. ****Idiomatic Verbal Expressions **
 * 5. ****Proverbial Phrases **
 * 6. ****Activities That Can Be Done To Teach Proverbs, Idioms and Common Phrases In Class **

An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition of the phrase itself, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.**<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #13fbfb; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;"> Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because chances are you might lose everything.
 * IDIOM
 * __A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush__**

Something good that isn't recognized at first.
 * __A Blessing In Disguise__ **

__** A Chip On Your Shoulder **__ Being upset for something that happened in the past.

__** A Dime A Dozen **__ Anything that is common and easy to get.

A skeptic who needs physical or personal evidence in order to believe something.
 * __A Doubting Thomas__ **

A very small part of something big or whole.
 * __A Drop in the Bucket__ **

__ **A Fool And His Money Are Easily Parted** __ It's easy for a foolish person to lose his/her money.

__**A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand**__: Everyone involved must unify and function together or it will not work out.

**__A Leopard Can't Change His Spots__**: You cannot change who you are.

__**A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned**__: By not spending money, you are saving money (little by little).

__**A Picture Paints a Thousand Words**__: A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.

__**A Piece of Cake**__: A task that can be accomplished very easily.

**__A Slap on the Wrist__**: A very mild punishment.

__**A Taste Of Your Own Medicine**__: When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.

__**A Toss-Up**__: A result that is still unclear and can go either way.

__**Actions Speak Louder Than Words**__: It's better to actually do something than just talk about it.

__**Add Fuel To The Fire**__: Whenever something is done to make a bad situation even worse than it is.

__**Against The Clock**__: Rushed and short on time.

__**All Bark And No Bite**__: When someone is threatening and/or aggressive but not willing to engage in a fight.

__**All Greek to me**__: Meaningless and incomprehensible like someone who cannot read, speak, or understand any of the Greek language would be.

__**All In The Same Boat**__: When everyone is facing the same challenges.

__**An Arm And A Leg**__: Very expensive. A large amount of money.

__**Apple of My Eye**__: Someone who is cherished above all others.

__**As High As A Kite**__: Anything that is high up in the sky.

__**At The Drop Of A Hat**__: Willing to do something immediately.

__**Back Seat Driver**__: People who criticize from the sidelines, much like someone giving unwanted advice from the back seat of a vehicle to the driver.

__**Back To Square One**__: Having to start all over again.

__**Back To The Drawing Board**__: When an attempt fails and it's time to start all over.

**__Baker's Dozen__**: Thirteen.

__**Barking Up The Wrong Tree**__: A mistake made in something you are trying to achieve.

__**Beat A Dead Horse**__: To force an issue that has already ended.

**__Beating Around The Bush__**: Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.

__**Bend Over Backwards**__: Do whatever it takes to help. Willing to do anything.

__**Between A Rock And A Hard Place**__: Stuck between two very bad options.

__**Bite Off More Than You Can Chew**__: To take on a task that is way to big.

__**Bite Your Tongue**__: To avoid talking.

__**Blood Is Thicker Than Water**__: The family bond is closer than anything else.

__**Blue Moon**__: A rare event or occurance.

__**Break A Leg**__: A superstitious way to say 'good luck' without saying 'good luck', but rather the opposite.

__**Buy A Lemon**__: To purchase a vehicle that constantly gives problems or stops running after you drive it away. __**Can't Cut The Mustard**__ : Someone who isn't adequate enough to compete or participate.

__**Cast Iron Stomach**__: Someone who has no problems, complications or ill effects with eating anything or drinking anything.

__**Charley Horse**__: Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp.

__**Chew someone out**__: Verbally scold someone.

__**Chow Down**__: To eat.

__**Close but no Cigar**__: To be very near and almost accomplish a goal, but fall short.

__**Cock and Bull Story**__: An unbelievable tale.

__**Come Hell Or High Water**__: Any difficult situation or obstacle.

__**Crack Someone Up**__: To make someone laugh.

__**Cross Your Fingers**__: To hope that something happens the way you want it to.

__**Cry Over Spill Milk**__: When you complain about a loss from the past.

__**Cry Wolf**__: Intentionally raise a false alarm.

__**Cup Of Joe**__: A cup of coffee.

__**Curiosity Killed The Cat**__: Being Inquisitive can lead you into a dangerous situation.

__**Cut to the Chase**__: Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point.  __**Dark Horse**__: One who was previously unknown and is now prominent.

__**Dead Ringer**__: 100% identical. A duplicate.

__**Devil's Advocate**__: Someone who takes a position for the sake of argument without believing in that particular side of the argument. It can also mean one who presents a counter argument for a position they do believe in, to another debater.

__**Dog Days of Summer**__: The hottest days of the summer season.

__**Don't count your chickens before they hatch**__: Don't rely on it until your sure of it.

__**Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth**__: When someone gives you a gift, don't be ungrateful.

__**Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket**__: Do not put all your resources in one possibility.

__**Doozy**__: Something outstanding.

__**Down To The Wire**__: Something that ends at the last minute or last few seconds.

__**Drastic Times Call For Drastic Measures**__: When you are extremely desperate you need to take extremely desperate actions.

__**Drink like a fish**__: To drink very heavily.

__**Drive someone up the wall**__: To irritate and/or annoy very much.

__**Dropping Like Flies**__: A large number of people either falling ill or dying.

__**Dry Run**__: Rehearsal.

__**Eighty Six**__: A certain item is no longer available. Or this idiom can also mean, to throw away.

__**Elvis has left the building**__: The show has come to an end. It's all over.

__**Ethnic Cleansing**__: Killing of a certain ethnic or religious group on a massive scale.

__**Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining**__: Be optomistic, even difficult times will lead to better days.

**__Everything But The Kitchen Sink__**: Almost everything and anything has been included.

__**Excuse my French**__: Please forgive me for cussing.

__**Feeding Frenzy**__: An aggressive attack on someone by a group.

__**Field Day**__: An enjoyable day or circumstance.

__**Finding Your Feet**__: To become more comfortable in whatever you are doing.

__**Finger licking' good**__: A very tasty food or meal.

__**Fixed In Your Ways**__: Not willing or wanting to change from your normal way of doing something.

**__Flash In The Pan__**: Something that shows potential or looks promising in the beginning but fails to deliver anything in the end.

__**Flea Market**__: A swap meet. A place where people gather to buy and sell inexpensive goods.

**__Flesh and Blood__**: This idiom can mean living material of which people are made of, or it can refer to someone's family.

__**Flip The Bird**__: To raise your middle finger at someone.

**__Foam at the Mouth__**: To be enraged and show it.

__**Fools' Gold**__: Iron pyrites, a worthless rock that resembles real gold.

__**French Kiss**__: An open mouth kiss where tongues touch.

__**From Rags To Riches**__: To go from being very poor to being very wealthy.

__**Fuddy-duddy**__: An old-fashioned and foolish type of person.

__**Full Monty**__: This idiom can mean either, "the whole thing" or "completely nude".

__**Funny Farm**__: A mental institutional facility.

__**Get Down to Brass Tacks**__: To become serious about something.

__**Get Over It**__: To move beyond something that is bothering you.

__**Get Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bed**__: Someone who is having a horrible day.

__**Get Your Walking Papers**__: Get fired from a job.

__**Give Him The Slip**__: To get away from. To escape.

__**Go Down Like A Lead Balloon**__: To be received badly by an audience.

__**Go For Broke**__: To gamble everything you have.

__**Go Out On A Limb**__: Put yourself in a tough position in order to support someone/something.

__**Go The Extra Mile**__: Going above and beyond whatever is required for the task at hand.

__**Good Samaritan**__: Someone who helps others when they are in need, with no discussion for compensation, and no thought of a reward.

__**Graveyard Shift**__: Working hours from about 12:00 am to 8:00 am. The time of the day when most other people are sleeping.

__**Great Minds Think Alike**__: Intelligent people think like each other.

__**Green Room**__: The waiting room, especially for those who are about to go on a tv or radio show.

__**Gut Feeling**__: A personal intuition you get, especially when feel something may not be right.

__**Haste Makes Waste**__: Quickly doing things results in a poor ending.

__**Hat Trick**__: When one player scores three goals in the same hockey game. This idiom can also mean three scores in any other sport, such as 3 homeruns, 3 touchdowns, 3 soccer goals, etc.

__**Have an Axe to Grind**__: To have a dispute with someone.

__**He Lost His Head**__: Angry and overcome by emotions.

__**Head Over Heels**__: Very excited and/or joyful, especially when in love.

__**Hell in a Handbasket**__: Deteriorating and headed for complete disaster.

__**High Five**__: Slapping palms above each others heads as celebration gesture.

__**High on the Hog**__: Living in Luxury.

__**Hit The Books**__: To study, especially for a test or exam.

**__Hit The Hay__**: Go to bed or go to sleep.

**__Hit The Nail on the Head__**: Do something exactly right or say something exactly right.

__**Hit The Sack**__: Go to bed or go to sleep.

__**Hocus Pocus**__: In general, a term used in magic or trickery.

__ **Hold Your Horses** __ Be patient.

__**Icing On The Cake**__: When you already have it good and get something on top of what you already have.

__**Idle Hands Are The Devil's Tools**__: You are more likely to get in trouble if you have nothing to do.

__**If It's Not One Thing, It's Another**__: When one thing goes wrong, then another, and another...

__**In Like Flynn**__: To be easily successful, especially when sexual or romantic.

__**In The Bag**__: To have something secured.

__**In The Buff**__: Nude.

__**In The Heat Of The Moment**__: Overwhelmed by what is happening in the moment.

__**In Your Face**__: An aggressive and bold confrontation.

__**It Takes Two To Tango**__: A two person conflict where both people are at fault.

__**It's A Small World**__: You frequently see the same people in different places.

__**Its Anyone's Call**__: A competition where the outcome is difficult to judge or predict.

__**Ivy League**__: Since 1954 the Ivy League has been the following universities: Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Harvard.

__**Jaywalk**__: Crossing the street (from the middle) without using the crosswalk.

**__Joshing Me__**: Tricking me.

__**Keep An Eye On Him**__: You should carefully watch him.

__**Keep body and soul together**__: To earn a sufficient amount of money in order to keep yourself alive.

__**Keep your chin up**__: To remain joyful in a tough situation.

__**Kick The Bucket**__: Die.

__**Kitty-corner**__: Diagonally across. Sometimes called Catty-Corner as well.

__**Knee Jerk Reaction**__: A quick and automatic response.

__**Knock On Wood**__: Knuckle tapping on wood in order to avoid some bad luck.

__**Know the Ropes**__: To understand the details.

__**Last but not least**__: An introduction phrase to let the audience know that the last person mentioned is no less important than those introduced before him/her.

__**Lend Me Your Ear**__: To politely ask for someone's full attention.

__**Let Bygones Be Bygones**__: To forget about a disagreement or arguement.

__**Let Sleeping Dogs Lie**__: To avoid restarting a conflict.

__**Let The Cat Out Of The Bag**__: To share a secret that wasn't suppose to be shared.

__**Level playing field**__: A fair competition where no side has an advantage.

__**Like a chicken with its head cut off**__: To act in a frenzied manner.

__**Liquor someone up**__: To get someone drunk.

__**Long in the Tooth**__: Old people (or horses).

__**Loose Cannon**__: Someone who is unpredictable and can cause damage if not kept in check.

__**Make No Bones About**__: To state a fact so there are no doubts or objections.

__**Method To My Madness**__: Strange or crazy actions that appear meaningless but in the end are done for a good reason.

__**Mumbo Jumbo**__: Nonsense or meaningless speech.

__**Mum's the word**__: To keep quiet. To say nothing.

**__Nest Egg__**: Savings set aside for future use.

__**Never Bite The Hand That Feeds You**__: Don't hurt anyone that helps you.

__**New kid on the block**__: Someone new to the group or area.

**__New York Minute__**: A minute that seems to go by quickly, especially in a fast paced environment.

__**No Dice**__: To not agree. To not accept a proposition.

__**No Room to Swing a Cat**__: An unsually small or confined space.

__**Not Playing With a Full Deck**__: Someone who lacks intelligence.

__**Off On The Wrong Foot**__: Getting a bad start on a relationship or task.

__**Off The Hook**__: No longer have to deal with a tough situation.

__**Off the Record**__: Something said in confidence that the one speaking doesn't want attributed to him/her.

__**On Pins And Needles**__: Anxious or nervous, especially in anticipation of something.

__**On The Fence**__: Undecided.

__**On The Same Page**__: When multiple people all agree on the same thing.

__**Out Of The Blue**__: Something that suddenly and unexpectedly occurs.

__**Out On A Limb**__: When someone puts themself in a risky situation.

__**Out On The Town**__: To enjoy yourself by going out.

__**Over My Dead Body**__: When you absolutely will not allow something to happen.

__**Over the Top**__: Very excessive.

__**Pass The Buck**__: Avoid responsibility by giving it to someone else.

__**Pedal to the metal**__: To go full speed, especially while driving a vehicle.

__**Peeping Tom**__: Someone who observes people in the nude or sexually active people, mainly for his own gratification.

__**Pick up your ears**__: To listen very carefully.

__**Pig In A Poke**__: A deal that is made without first examining it.

__**Pig Out**__ : To eat alot and eat it quickly.

__**Pipe Down**__: To shut-up or be quiet.

__**Practice Makes Perfect**__: By constantly practicing, you will become better.

__**Pull the plug**__: To stop something. To bring something to an end.

**__Pulling Your Leg__**: Tricking someone as a joke.

__ **Put a sock in it** __ To tell noisy person or a group to be quiet.

__**Queer the pitch**__: Destroy or ruin a plan.

__**Raincheck**__: An offer or deal that is declined right now but willing to accept later.

**__Raining Cats and Dogs__**: A very loud and noisy rain storm.

**__Ring Fencing__**: Seperated usual judgement to guarantee protection, especially project funds.

**__Rise and Shine__**: Time to get out of bed and get ready for work/school.

__ **Rome Was Not Built In One Day** __ If you want something to be completely properly, then its going to take time.

**__Rule Of Thumb__**: A rough estimate.

To be completely out of energy.
 * __Run out of steam__ **

**__Saved By The Bell__**: Saved at the last possible moment.

**__Scapegoat__**: Someone else who takes the blame.

**__Scot-free__**: To escape and not have to pay.

__**Sick As A Dog**__: To be very sick (with the flu or a cold).

__**Sitting Shotgun**__: Riding in the front passenger seat of a car.

__**Sixth Sense**__: A paranormal sense that allows you to communicate with the dead.

__**Skid Row**__: The rundown area of a city where the homeless and drug users live.

__**Smell A Rat**__: To detect somone in the group is betraying the others.

__**Smell Something Fishy**__: Detecting that something isn't right and there might be a reason for it.

__**Son of a Gun**__: A scamp.

__**Southpaw**__: Someone who is left-handed.

__**Spitting Image**__: The exact likeness or kind.

__**Start From Scratch**__: To do it all over again from the beginning.

**__The Ball Is In Your Court__**: It is your decision this time.

__**The Best Of Both Worlds**__: There are two choices and you have them both.

**__The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall__**: While the bigger and stronger opponent might be alot more difficult to beat, when you do they suffer a much bigger loss.

__**The Last Straw**__: When one small burden after another creates an unbearable situation, the last straw is the last small burden that one can take.

**__The Whole Nine Yards__**: Everything. All of it.

**__Third times a charm__**: After no success the first two times, the third try is a lucky one.

__**Tie the knot**__: To get married.

__**Til the cows come home**__: A long time.

__**To Make A Long Story Short**__: Something someone would say during a long and boring story in order to keep his/her audience from losing attention. Usually the story isn't shortened.

__**To Steal Someone's Thunder**__: To take the credit for something someone else did.

__**Tongue And Cheek**__: humor, not to be taken serious.

__**Turn A Blind Eye**__: Refuse to acknowledge something you know is real or legit.

__**Twenty three skidoo**__: To be turned away.

__**Under the weather**__: Feeling ill or sick.

__**Up a blind alley**__: Going down a course of action that leads to a bad outcome.

__**Use Your Loaf**__: Use your head. Think smart.

__**Van Gogh's ear for music**__: Tone deaf.

__**Variety Is The Spice Of Life**__: The more experiences you try the more exciting life can be.

__**Wag the Dog**__: A diversion away from something of greater importance.

__**Water Under The Bridge**__: Anything from the past that isn't significant or important anymore.

__**Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve**__: To openly and freely express your emotions.

__**When It Rains, It Pours**__: Since it rarely rains, when it does it will be a huge storm.

__**When Pigs Fly**__ : Something that will never ever happen.

__**Wild and Woolly**__: Uncultured and without laws.

__**Wine and Dine**__: When somebody is treated to an expensive meal.

__**Without A Doubt**__: For certain.

__**X marks the spot**__: A phrase that is said when someone finds something he/she has been looking for.

__**You Are What You Eat**__: In order to stay healthy you must eat healthy foods.

__**You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover**__: Decisions shouldn't be made primarily on appearance.

__**You Can't Take it With You**__: Enjoy what you have and not what you don't have, since when you die you cannot take things (such as money) with you.

__**Your Guess Is As Good As Mine**__: I have no idea.

__**Zero Tolerance**__: No crime or law breaking big or small will be overlooked. **__ Common Phrases and Expressions in English __** Example: "I wolfed down that sandwich so quickly." My interpretation: Wolves are known for eating their food quickly, for fear that another wolf will get to it before them. So to "wolf something down" is to eat as quickly as a wolf does.
 * Word/Expression:** to wolf something down
 * Quick translation:** to eat something quickly

Example: "I gotta (going to) leave now."
 * Word/Expression:** gotta (going to)
 * Quick translation:** to have to/to need to

Example: a waiter or salesperson may ask "Would you like (your food) to go?"
 * Word/Expression:** to go (expression used where food is sold)
 * Quick translation:** to carry out/to take out with you

Example: "That person is sick!" or "What he did to her is sick!"
 * Word/Expression:** sick (when used to describe a person's mind or an event)
 * Quick translation:** strange or perverted


 * Word/Expression:** What's up?
 * Quick translation:** a very casual way to say "Hi" or "How are you?" or "What is happening here?"

Example: "Her husband is very handy around the house."
 * Word/Expression:** handy
 * Quick translation:** very useful, very industrious, or able to fix things themselves

to hail a cab/taxi Example: "Let's catch a taxi to the restaurant."
 * Word/Expression:** to catch a taxi / cab
 * Quick translation:** to get a taxi / cab

Example: "Did you catch the news last night?"
 * Word/Expression:** to catch a TV show/new story/conversation
 * Quick translation:** to hear or see something

Example: "If we have time, we can stay at the bar until 11:00 p.m."
 * Word/Expression:** to have time
 * Quick translation:** to have sufficient available time

Example: "I'm going to kill her when I see her."
 * Word/Expression:** to threaten to kill someone
 * Quick translation:** to be very mad with someone

Example: "I'd prefer to go on Sunday." Response: "OK, whatever floats your boat."
 * Word/Expression:** "Whatever floats your boat."
 * Quick translation:** whatever pleases you

Examples: "I'm not sure what my boss wants me to do. His directions were a bit sketchy." OR "Should you go there? Isn't that neighborhood a bit shaky/sketchy?"
 * Word/Expression:** shaky/sketchy
 * Quick translation:** unsafe, unclear, not a good idea


 * Word/Expression:** "I'm outta (out of) here" (I am out of here)
 * Quick translation:** I am leaving now

Examples: "Hi guys (men and / OR women)... what's up?" "That guy (man only) is strange." "Those guys (men, or group of men and women) are also coming with us." Further clarification: Guy (singular) can only refer to a MAN. Guys (plural) can apply to a group of men and/or women.
 * Word/Expression:** guy/guys
 * Quick translation:** a man/a group of men or a group of men AND women.

Example: "You should double-check our bank account balance before we plan our vacation trip."
 * Word/Expression:** to double-check
 * Quick translation:** to re-check or verify


 * Word/Expression:** "You gotta be kidding me."
 * Quick translation:** "You must be joking." OR "What you are saying cannot be true."

Example: "I'm gonna clean the bathroom today." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none;"> **__<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Telephone calls - Common English phrases. __** <span style="color: #000066; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"> [|A countenance more in sorrow than in anger] [|A Daniel come to judgement] [|A dish fit for the gods] [|A fool's paradise] [|A foregone conclusion] [|A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse] [|A ministering angel shall my sister be] [|A plague on both your houses] [|A rose by any other name would smell as sweet] [|A sea change] [|A sorry sight] [|Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety] [|Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio] [|All corners of the world] [|All one to me] [|All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold] [|All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players] [|All's well that ends well] [|An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own] [|And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school] [|And thereby hangs a tale] [|As cold as any stone] [|As dead as a doornail] [|As good luck would have it] [|As merry as the day is long] [|As pure as the driven snow] [|At one fell swoop] [|Bag and baggage] [|Beast with two backs] [|Beware the ides of March] [|Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks] [|Brevity is the soul of wit] [|But screw your courage to the sticking-place] [|But, for my own part, it was Greek to me] [|Come the three corners of the world in arms] [|Come what come may] [|Comparisons are odorous] [|Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war] [|Discretion is the better part of valour] [|Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble] [|Eaten out of house and home] [|Et tu, Brute] [|Even at the turning of the tide] [|Exceedingly well read] [|Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog] [|Fair play] [|Fancy free] [|Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man] [|Fight fire with fire] [|For ever and a day] [|Frailty, thy name is woman] [|Foul play] [|Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears] [|Good men and true] [|Good riddance] [|Green eyed monster] [|Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings] [|He will give the Devil his due] [|Heart's content] [|High time] [|His beard was as white as snow] [|Hoist by your own petard] [|How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child] [|I bear a charmed life] [|I have not slept one wink] [|I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips] [|I will wear my heart upon my sleeve] [|If music be the food of love, play on] [|In a pickle] [|In my mind's eye, Horatio] [|In stitches] [|In the twinkling of an eye] [|Is this a dagger which I see before me?] [|It beggar'd all description] [|It is meat and drink to me] [|Lay it on with a trowel] [|Lie low] [|Like the Dickens] [|Love is blind] [|Make your hair stand on end] [|Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water] [|Milk of human kindness] [|Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows] [|More fool you] [|More honoured in the breach than in the observance] [|Much Ado about Nothing] [|Mum's the word] [|My salad days] [|Neither a borrower nor a lender be] [|Night owl] [|No more cakes and ale?] [|Now is the winter of our discontent] [|O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo] [|Off with his head] [|Oh, that way madness lies] [|Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more] [|Out of the jaws of death] [|Pound of flesh] [|Primrose path] [|Rhyme nor reason] [|Salad days] [|Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything] [|Screw your courage to the sticking place] [|Send him packing] [|Set your teeth on edge] [|Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?] [|Short shrift] [|Shuffle off this mortal coil] [|Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep] [|Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em] [|Something is rotten in the state of Denmark] [|Star crossed lovers] [|Stiffen the sinews] [|Stony hearted] [|Such stuff as dreams are made on] [|The course of true love never did run smooth] [|The crack of doom] [|The Devil incarnate] [|The game is afoot] [|The game is up] [|The quality of mercy is not strained] [|The Queen's English] [|The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune] [|The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on] [|There's method in my madness] [|Thereby hangs a tale] [|This is the short and the long of it] [|This is very midsummer madness] [|This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle] [|Though this be madness, yet there is method in it] [|Thus far into the bowels of the land] [|To be or not to be, that is the question] [|To gild refined gold, to paint the lily] [|To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub] [|Too much of a good thing] [|Truth will out] [|Under the greenwood tree] [|Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown] [|Vanish into thin air] [|We few, we happy few, we band of brothers] [|We have seen better days] [|Wear your heart on your sleeve] [|What a piece of work is man] [|What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet] [|When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions] [|Where the bee sucks, there suck I] [|While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!] [|Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure] [|Wild goose chase] [|Woe is me] **__Nautical Phrases__** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">A shot across the bows <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">All at sea <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Anchors aweigh Batten down the hatches <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Between the Devil and the deep blue sea <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Broad in the beam <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">By and large <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[|Chock-a-block] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[|Close quarters] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[|Copper-bottomed] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Cut and run <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Fathom out Get underway Give a wide berth <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Go by the board <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Hand over fist <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Hard and fast <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">High and dry <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">In the offing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Know the ropes <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">On your beam ends <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Plain sailing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Shipshape and Bristol fashion <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Shake a leg <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Shiver my timbers <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Taken aback <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Tell it to the marines <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">The bitter end <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">The cut of your jib <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Three sheets to the wind <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Tide over Walk the plank Namby-pamby Your cringing, fawning subject sire. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">You can lead a horse to water ...but a pencil must be lead. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">A red rag to a bull Excuse me Daisy - can you see this?
 * Word/Expression:** gonna (pronounced like "gunna")
 * Quick translation:** going to ....
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Answering the phone: ===== ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Good morning/afternoon XYZ Ltd. How can I help you? ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Connecting a caller:- ===== ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">I'll put you through now. ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">One moment please. ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Explaining there's a problem: ===== ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">I'm sorry, but the line's engaged at the moment. ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">I'm sorry. There's no reply. ||
 * I'm sorry, but he/she's out of the office at the moment. ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">I'm afraid he/she's on the other line at the moment. ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Offering help:- ===== ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Would you like to hold? ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Is there anyone else who could help you? ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Can I take a message? ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Maybe I can help you? ||
 * =====** Offer a return call:- **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> ===== ||
 * Perhaps he/she can call you back? ||
 * Could he/she call you back? ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Offering to take a message:- ===== ||
 * Can I take a message for him/her? ||
 * Would you like to leave a message? ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Asking for the caller's name and number:- ===== ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Could I have your name and number, please? ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Could you give me your name and number, please? ||
 * =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Checking the information:- ===== ||
 * Could you spell that, please? ||
 * Can I just check that again, please? ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Could you repeat that, please? ||
 * __ 135 Phrases coined by William Shakespeare __ **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">In a pickle In deep trouble. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Pass the buck <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">A picture is worth a thousand words Tempest in a teapot Fuddy-duddy <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">The jury is still out Swan song By hook or by crook Lose your marbles Birds of a feather Over the moon Out of sorts <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Pull out all the stops <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Sir Walter Scott <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">Peter out Raze to the ground <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 180%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastthemefont: major-fareast;">In a pickle A red rag to a bull You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink