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The green-eyed monster

Pop up/out

Walk/tread a tightrope

Draw back (v)

Nurse (verb)

Map out

Get the nod

In your hands

Fill a/the void

In the shape/form of somebody/something

Bring sth hom (to sb) idiom

Disember 20, 2019

Clamour

Mulling over

Dole queue

Step in (to help for instance)

Struck off

Look the part

On the receiving end

Come to terms with

Come around to the idea

Start to accept and support something after opposing it.

To be drawn to smh

Disember 17, 2019

On the loose

Disember 17, 2019

Fat chance

Disember 17, 2019

False dawn

It is what it is

The outcomes, circumstances or the situation has already happened so it must be accepted even if it is undesirable.

War chest

1. A fund to conduct a business or campaign.

Bounce along/around (idiom)

Get to the bottom of smth

Lit up the room

Be grounded (down-to-earth)

A wake up call

Do the rounds

Take it upon yourself to do something

Big-headed vs lower-headed

Make way for smh

A wake up call

Open up to someone

Get sth off the chest

Keep your head down

Ultimatum

Disember 11, 2019

Come down (idiom)

Disember 11, 2019

1. To depend on the answer to or outcome of something

Hit on/upon sth

Disember 11, 2019

1. To think of an idea when you didn't expect or intend to

Strip down

Resort to

1. To go to + ing 2. To turn to +ing

Part and parcel

1. An integral and essential component

Under someone's nose

1. Directly in front of them 2. Committing action openly and boldly but without someone noticing. 3. In someone's presence

Things don't go the way I wanted them to go (phrase)

Wane

Gradually decrease in quality, size

Let's leave it there

End the conversation To not continue the topic anymore

Like (one's) life depends on it

All/everything is not as it seems

Can relate

Something happens to you

Bridge a/the gap

Gate crash

In the clear

Upstage

Dote on/upon

To this day

Cul-de-sac

Have a chip on your shoulder

Staggered

Come/enter into force

Take a load off (one's feet)

Cut someone out

Home and Dry

Disember 04, 2019

Set off alarm bells

Disember 03, 2019

On a knife-edge

Disember 03, 2019

Out of hand

Disember 03, 2019

Coin it

Disember 02, 2019

Head and shoulders above

Disember 01, 2019

For yonks

Disember 01, 2019

Make up ground

Disember 01, 2019