Sour Grapes – to dismiss or criticise something, because you are hacked off that you…
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‘There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch’ Something we say to show that we…
to eat someone out of house and home – to eat everything offered to you,…
You can’t have your cake and eat it – literally means that you cannot eat the…
Two-a-penny – something that is in plentiful supply, and therefore very cheap. Possibly from the old…
Good craic – good fun. If someone says “the craic’s good“, they usually mean there is…
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The Best-Laid Plans
The best laid plans often go awry is a translation of a line from a…
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Right Up My Street
if something is right up your street, it is the kind of thing…
to save someone’s bacon – to save someone from a tricky situation; to come…
to go cold turkey – to withdraw suddenly and completely from something bad for…
