📔 pull someone's leg


📋Meaning
deceive someone playfully; tease someone.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"getting married—are you pulling my leg?"
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📔 turn a blind eye


📋Meaning
pretend not to notice.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening"
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📔 beat the rush


📋Meaning
to get there first


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I always do my shopping early to beat the rush.
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📔 raise Cain


📋Meaning
Behave in a rowdy or disruptive way


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He'll raise Cain when he finds out I lost his watch.
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📔 raise Cain


📋Meaning
Behave in a rowdy or disruptive way


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He'll raise Cain when he finds out I lost his watch.
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📔 break a leg!


📋Meaning
good luck!


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"Remember, the show must go on! Good luck and break a leg!"
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📔 wet behind the ears


📋Meaning
lacking experience; immature.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears"
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📔 take a powder


📋Meaning
depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When he saw the police coming, the thief decided to take a powder.”
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📔 Wrap your head around something


📋Meaning
Understand something complicated


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I just couldn't wrap my head around what had happened.
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📔 the last straw


📋Meaning
a further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"his affair was the last straw"
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📔 It's not rocket science


📋Meaning
It is easy to understand or is not difficult to do/understand


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My coach always said, "Basketball is not rocket science. It's about putting the ball in the basket."
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📔 call it a day


📋Meaning
decide or agree to stop doing something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day"
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📔 A dime a dozen


📋Meaning
  very common and of no particular value.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"experts in this field are a dime a dozen"
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📔 Go back to the drawing board


📋Meaning
  Start over


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
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📔 Pull yourself together


📋Meaning
  recover control of one's emotions./ Calm down.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"you've got to pull yourself together and find a job"
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📔 Give someone the benefit of the doubt


📋Meaning
  Trust what someone says


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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📔 A blessing in disguise


📋Meaning
  an apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise"
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📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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📔 be the butt of someone's jokes


📋Meaning
  to be a person who is joked about or laughed at


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.

🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke.
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📔 be the butt of someone's jokes


📋Meaning
  to be a person who is joked about or laughed at


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.

🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke.
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📔 safe and sound


📋Meaning
  not hurt or injured.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My cat disappeared for two days and I was so worried but today she showed up safe and sound.

🗣Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound.
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