Sour Grapes – to dismiss or criticise something, because you are hacked off that you…
Right Up My Street
if something is right up your street, it is the kind of thing…
to get in a right old pickle – to be in a difficult situation. But not…
ham-fisted – clumsy, heavy-handed; without dexterity. If you do something in a “ham-fisted manner” you…
easy as falling off a log – something that is so easy to do, you barely…
a trifling matter – a matter that lacks importance; something trivial. Similarly the verb to trifle…
to save someone’s bacon – to save someone from a tricky situation; to come…
crackers – bonkers, ridiculous, a bit mad. So, the story goes that back in…
to go cold turkey – to withdraw suddenly and completely from something bad for…
to pack a punch – to have power or strength, often that people do not expect.…