Sour Grapes – to dismiss or criticise something, because you are hacked off that you…
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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.…
