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level: Idioms part 2

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level questions: Idioms part 2

Question	Answer
Looking gloomy	Pulling a long face
for a very long time	till the cows come home
wasted	go down the drain
smth very good that improves life significantly	best thing after sliced breads
to try before further actions	testing the water
day-dream	to build castles in the air
coward	chicken-hearted
an important day	a red letter day
spread very quickly	spread like wildfire
useless thing which is expensive	white elephant
to know smth very well	at one's fingertips
to find the hidden meaning	read between the lines
impossible	out of the questions
impossible tasks	to attempt a Herculean tasks
to live in poverty	to live from hand to mouth
to earn money	to put bread on the table
to make peace	bury the hatchet
to do smth dangerous	skate on thin ice
to be afraid	to get cold feet
face the worst part of an action	to bear the brunt of one's mistake
all the advantage	best of both worlds
do not disturb a situation as it will result trouble	to let sleeping dogs lie
someone who is dull/ old-fashioned	stick in the mud
an encouragement to take action	shot in the arm
having potential but need refinement	a diamond in the rough
subject of ridicule	laughing stock
confess	make a clean breast
pay attention to every little details	dot the i's and cross the t's
people like to spend time with people who are similar	birds of a feather flock together
be patient	Rom wasn't build in a day
if one fail, whole team fail	a chain is as strong as its weakest link
to be prepare to face the consequences of your action	as you make your bed, so you must lie in it too
you can't justify is is wrong bcs someone else had did it too	too blacks doesn't make one white
older people don't change their habits easily	you can't teach an old dog new tricks
if you solves it now, you can prevent more work later	a stitch in a time saves nine
very different from	far cry from
children are very similar to their parents	apple don't fall far from their trees