📔be at a crossroads

📋Meaning
to be at a stage in your life when you have to make a very important decision

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣After earning my degree, I'm at a crossroads. I need to figure out which direction my life should take.

🗣As a company, we're at a crossroads. We can continue business as usual, or we can take a risk and try to grow.
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📔 weep (one's) heart out


📋Meaning
To weep copiously; to cry intensely and for a long time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Lauren wept her heart out at the news of her father's sudden death.

🗣What did you say to upset your brother? He's been weeping his heart out upstairs for the last half hour!
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📔 Castle in the sky



📋Meaning
  A daydream, a hope, especially for one’s life, that’s unlikely to come true.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “World traveling used to be a castle in the sky for most people a few decades ago, but with cheap flight tickets and the global use of English, many youngsters are living that dream.”
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📔on the hush-hush


📋Meaning
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I need to tell you some important news, but you have to keep it on the hush-hush, OK?

🗣Apparently it's on the hush-hush, but I just found out John and Tracey are getting married soon!
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📔 Keep your chin up



📋Meaning
  “Stay strong, you’ll get through this. Don’t let these things affect you too badly.”



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Hey, Keiren, have you had any luck finding work yet?”

“No, nothing, it’s really depressing, there’s nothing out there!”

“Don’t worry, you’ll find something soon, keep your chin up buddy and don’t stress.”
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📔 pitch a fit


📋Meaning
To become very or unreasonably angry or upset; to have an outburst of rage, frustration, or ill temper.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My mom's going to pitch a fit when she sees what happened to the car!

🗣I was so embarrassed when Danny started pitching a fit in the grocery store.
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📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
  Completely mad. 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.

🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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📔 teensy-weensy



📋Meaning
Particularly small or tiny.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm not hungry myself, but I'd love to try just a teensy-weensy bite of your meal, if you don't mind.

🗣Be sure to appreciate the time when your children are teensy-weensy, because they grow up very fast!
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📔 a race against time




📋Meaning
  A situation where someone has to finish something quickly, in a short or limited amount of time.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Last night we were racing against time to put the packets together before the conference started today.

🗣  It's a real race against the clock to prevent the spread of the Zika virus.
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📔 (the) man/woman of the hour


📋Meaning
A person currently being celebrated, honored, or admired by others, especially for a recent victory, accomplishment, or other cause for celebration.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Janet was woman of the hour at the office after securing the biggest customer their business had ever had.

🗣 Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're the woman of the hour!"

🗣 After writing that bombshell exposé about corruption in Washington, Jake was the man of the hour.
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📔 Nip something in the bud



📋Meaning
  To stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “When the kid shows the first signs of misbehaving, you should nip that bad behavior in the bud.”
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📔 work the room


📋Meaning
To interact with many people at an event or function. Often, but not always, applied to business situations.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣At networking events, Ben totally works the room, with the goal of meeting as many people as he possibly can.

🗣At parties, my dad always works the room and chats with everyone, but I'm too shy for that.
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📔 Cut to the chase



📋Meaning
  If you’re speaking to a group of people, like your employees, and say I’m going to cut to the chase, it means that there are a few things that need to be said but there’s very little time, so you’ll skip to the important parts so everyone understands.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Hi guys, as we don’t have much time here, so I’m going to cut to the chase. We’ve been having some major problems in the office lately.”

🗣 "cut to the chase—what is it you want us to do?"
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📔 not as black as (one) is painted


📋Meaning
Not as evil, malicious, or malignant as one is described or believed to be.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Everyone is afraid of the old hermit who lives on the edge of town, but after having a few conversations with him, he's not nearly as black as he's painted.

🗣The biker gang plays up its tough demeanor and hellish reputation, but they're really just a bunch of regular guys and not as black as they're painted.
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📔 living on the edge



📋Meaning
 To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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📔 not say boo to a goose


📋Meaning
To be particularly shy, diffident, or timid by nature. Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My brother is a very sweet, warm-hearted man who can't say boo to a goose. How can you suspect that he committed this crime?

🗣The neighbour's daughter is just the cutest little thing, but she won't say boo to a goose.
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📔 Up to one's eyeballs




📋Meaning
  to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something

to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.

🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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📔 catch the sun


📋Meaning
To get sunburned.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I caught the sun at the beach last weekend, and now my back hurts so much that I have to sleep on my side!

🗣I made sure to pack you some extra sunscreen so that you don't catch the sun on your trip.
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📔 Barking up the wrong tree



📋Meaning
  Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “If you think she’s going to lend you money, you’re barking up the wrong tree. She never lends anyone anything.”
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📔 out of humour


📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.

🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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