Idioms99

  1. Be about to do sth
  2. That’s about all/it
  3. Add fuel to the fire/flames
  4. Take advantage of sth/smb
  5. After all
  6. (Up) in the air
  7. The apple of smb’s eye
  8. Cost/pay an arm and a leg
  9. keep smb at arm’s length
  10. Get off smb’s back
  11. Beat about the bush
  12. Get out of bed on the wrong side
  13. Been there done that
  14. Give smb a bell (informal)
  15. To the best of your belief / knowledge
  16. Bite off more than you can chew (informal)
  17. Out of the blue
  18. The bottom line (informal)
  19. (be) bursting to do smth
  20. (as) busy as a bee
  21. Give smb a buzz (informal)
  22. get a buzz from sth/from doing smth
  23. Be/get carried away
  24. (build) castles in the air
  25. (like) chalk and cheese (different as chalk and cheese), BrE, informal (Hard cheese -> bad luck)
  26. Around/round the clock
  27. On cloud nine (old-fashioned, informal)
  28. Not have a clue (informal)
  29. Get/have cold feet (informal)
  30. Have (got) smth in common (with smb/smth)
  31. A couch potato (informal, disapproving)
  32. From the cradle to the grave
  33. Cry your eyes out
  34. I’m/I’ll be damned if…(spoken)
  35. From day one
  36. Make smb’s day
  37. Be/have to do with smb/smth
  38. Dressed to kill (informal)
  39. Dressed (up) to the nines (informal)
  40. Drink like a fish (informal)
  41. (take to smth) like a duck to water
  42. Be all ears (informal)
  43. At (your) ease
  44. Easier said than done
  45. Go easy on smb (informal)
  46. Take it/things easy (informal)
  47. Put all your eggs into one basket
  48. Not exactly (spoken)
  49. give smth a facelift
  50. fan the flames (of smth)
  51. take a fancy to smb/smth (esp. British English)
  52. by far
  53. far from it (informal)
  54. be (all) in favour of (doing) sth
  55. in smb’s/smth’s favour
  56. at first glance/sight
  57. (at) first hand
  58. Can’t get over smth (spoken)
  59. (not) get somewhere/nowhere/anywhere
  60. Be glued to smth (informal)
  61. take smth for granted
  62. get out of hand
  63. go hand in hand (with smth)
  64. come in handy/useful
  65. get the hang of smth (informal)
  66. be hard on smb
  67. hate smb’s guts (informal)
  68. have it out with smb
  69. head over heels (in love)
  70. here we go again
  71. high and low
  72. get hold of smb/smth
  73. bring home the bacon (informal)
  74. come home (to smb)
  75. keep it up
  76. kick the bucket (BrE, informal, humorous)
  77. kill two birds with one stone
  78. kind of/sort of (informal)
  79. (two) of a kind/sort
  80. one of a kind
  81. it takes one to know one (informal, disapproving)
  82. know smb inside out (informal)
  83. know your own mind
  84. be common/public knowledge
  85. make the most of smth
  86. make your mark
  87. mean (smb) no harm; not mean (smb) any harm
  88. (be) a means to an end
  89. if my memory serves me well, correctly, etc.; if memory serves
  90. come/spring to mind
  91. have (got) a mind of your own
  92. by a neck
  93. (as) good as new; like new
  94. next thing (I knew) (informal)
  95. next to nothing
  96. it’s now or never
  97. by numbers
  98. a hard/tough nut (to crack) (informal)
  99. (put smth) in a nutshell (informal)