Midterm Chapters 1-6 Flashcards

4117223958	run of the mill	average, ordinary	0
4117223959	the cream of the crop	the best of the group	1
4117223961	keep one's fingers crossed	hope for positive result	2
4117223962	knuckle down	become serious about one's work	3
4117223963	one's first crack at something	one's first attempt at something	4
4117223966	slate	schedule	5
4117223967	look into something	investigate something	6
4117223970	up to	doing, occupied with	7
4117223971	hook up with someone	meet someone	8
4117223972	hitch	problem	9
4117223973	two's company, three's a crowd	a third person isn't welcome	10
4117223974	ditch someone	lose someone on purpose	11
4117223975	pull one's leg	joke, kid	12
4117223978	make a fuss over something	overreact, go over the top	13
4117223979	crushed	devastated, emotionally destroyed	14
4117223980	getting on	getting old	15
4117223981	young at heart	have a youthful attitude	16
4117223983	doesn't look half bad	looks pretty good	17
4117223986	chow down on something (to)	eat something	18
4117223987	i don't know how to break this to you	i don't know how to tell this to you	19
4117223988	something is on me	i'll pay for you	20
4117223989	never let someone live something down	never let someone forget something	21
4117223990	let someone off the hook	let someone avoid punishment	22
4117223992	let someone down	disappoint someone	23
4117223994	come to	cost, the total bill	24
4117223995	rip someone off	overcharge someone	25
4117223996	jack-of-all-trades	a multitalented laborer	26
4117223997	in mint condition	in perfect condions	27
4117224000	in the buff	in the nude, in the raw, naked	28
4117224003	stay on one's good side (to)	make someone have a favorable opinion of you	29
4117224004	in the long run	in the long term, over a long period of time	30
4117224005	dough	cash, money	31
4117224006	work out	exercise	32
4117224008	pop by somewhere (to)	visit somewhere	33
4117224009	decadent	indulgent	34
4117224010	fill me in	give me the details	35
4117224011	humongous	enormous, gigantic, huge, immense	36
4117224012	pin someone up against something	push someone up against something	37
4117224014	stretch one's legs	excercise one's legs after a period of inactivity	38
4117224016	booze	alcohol, liquor	39
4117224017	pester someone	constantly harass/bother someone	40
4117224020	B.O.	bad body odor	41
4117224022	on the bright side	on the positive side	42
4117224023	safe and sound	safely	43
4117224024	spoiled	pamperde, get anything one wants	44
4117224027	settle down	calm down	45
4117224028	burst into tears	start to cry suddenly and loudly	46
4117224030	get over something or someone	recover from something or someone	47
4117224032	come across something	find something by accident	48
4117224033	feel at home	feel comfortable in a new place	49
4117224034	put something behind someone	forget about a bad experience	50
4117224035	in no time	quickly, soon	51
4117224036	bundle of nerves	very nervous	52
4117224038	keyed up	very nervous	53
4117224039	knot in one's stomach	a nervous feeling in the stomach	54
4117224046	play it safe	be careful	55
4117224047	as far as someone knows	to the best of one's knowledge	56
4117224048	get off the beaten path	go to an area not visited by most people	57
4117224049	run out of something	use up all something	58
4117224050	bundle	a lot of money	59
4117224051	wipe out something	destroy something	60
4117224052	shopping spree	shopping binge, shop a lot	61
4117224053	in check	under control	62
4117224054	run up a bill	get into debt, spend a lot of money	63
4117224055	take it from me	trust me	64
4117224056	drag	a bore	65
4117224057	kitty-corner	diagonal in location	66
4117224058	take a break	take a rest	67
4117224059	stroll	walk slowly, saunter, wander	68
4117224060	check out something/someone	look at something/someone	69
4117224061	cover a lot of ground	travel a great distance	70
4117224062	know something like the back of one's hand	be very familiar with something	71
4117224063	hit the books	study hard	72
4117224064	go over something	review something	73
4117224066	mind like a steel trap	remembers everything	74
4117224067	on the tip of one's tongue	can almost remember it	75
4117224068	mull something over	consider, think something over	76
4117224069	hung up on	stuck on something/ someone, unable to continue	77
4117224070	what's-(his/her)-face	used when a person's name can't be remembered	78
4117224071	come down hard	punish harshly	79
4117224072	tell someone off	scold someone verbally	80
4117224073	chew someone out	scold someone verbally (harshly)	81
4117224074	badmouth someone	say negative things about someone	82
4117224075	have it in for	want to harm or criticize	83
4117224076	run into someone	meet someone by accident	84
4117224079	come down with something	get a cold or other illness	85
4117224080	come up with something	think of something	86
4117224081	vivid	colorful, vibrant	87
4117224082	coming along	progressing	88
4117224084	surf the net	use the internet	89
4117224086	hit somewhere	Visit somewhere	90
4117224089	jam-packed	Crowded,mobbed	91
4117224090	snap up something	Buy/take something quickly	92
4117224091	right up one's alley	Perfectly suited to someone	93
4117224092	take in	Reduce the waist size of one's pants/skirt	94
4117224093	run	Cost	95
4117224094	steep	Expensive	96
4117224095	shell out	Fork out,spend	97
4117224099	have one's name on it	Perfectly suited to someone	98
4117224100	long gone	Bought/left/taken a long time ago	99
4117224101	get a load of something/someone	Look at something/someone	100
4117224102	clash	Do not match in color or design	101
4117224103	there's no accounting for taste	There's no explaining someone's style	102
4117224104	full of oneself	Arrogant,conceited,smug,snobby	103
4117224105	dressed to kill	Dressed up	104
4117224106	last resort	A final option	105
4117224107	shoot one's mouth off	Speak in an inappropriate manner	106
4117224108	dressed to the nines	Dressed up	107
4117224109	sell oneself short	Underestimate oneself	108
4117224110	for the time being	For now	109
4117224111	hit the spot	Satisfying	110
4117224112	melt in one's mouth	Food that easily dissolves in one's mouth	111