To have Influence

to be a lady-killer

to be kindhearted

to think of oneself as God's gift to the world

to kid oneself (while mistaken)

to bore someone with endless conversation

to shy away from work

to meet a difficulty

to get one someone's nerves, to bore someone

to have a quick snack

to be hard up, to live from hand to mouth

to leave in a flash, to race off

To play dumb

to nitpick, to split hairs

to have the blues, to be depressed

to call a spade a spade, to speak the truth

at dusk, in the twilight

to jump from one subject to another

to put up with a lot, to swallow one's pride

to stand someone up

to be in form, to have incredible energy

this place is a mess

to go through hard times, to have very lean times

to bounce a check, to write a rubber check

to smash up one's (car)

to show what one is made of

to fall down (and hurt oneself), to take a bad fall

to get someone out of a jam

to speak highly of someone, to sing praises of someone

to pull out the rug out from under someone's feet

to push up daisies, to be deceased

to meet halfway

to be kept waiting, to be left cooling one's heels

to faint, to pass out

to be used as a dupe or tool

to laugh uproariously, to laugh one's head off, to split one's sides

to stir up a quarrel, to add fuel to the fire

to be a cheapskate, to be a skinflint

to take leave of one's senses

to talk about someone behind his or her back

to lead the high life

to make fun of someone, to pull someone's leg

to take the lion's share, to take all the credit

to fall flat one one's back

to change with the weather, to change one's opinion often

to search thoroughly, to go through something with a fine toothed comb

to send someone away, to send someone about his or her business

to beat around the bush

to pay the piper, to suffer the concequences

to reprimand someone, to give someone a good dressing-down

to network, to put the word out about something

to confess (to the police), to come clean

to seize the opportunity, to jump at the opportunity

to throw a monkey wrench into someone's business

to renege on a deal

a wasted effort

to chomp at the bit, to barely contain one's impatience

it's raining cats and dogs

to be scared, to have the jitters or the willies

to be very angry and suprised, to hit the ceiling

to exaggerate oneself, to get things out of proportion

to be in someone's good graces, to be on someone's good side

to be at the end of one's rope

to interrupt someone, to cut someone short

to be under lock and key

to lose one's shirt, to lose badly (in an election)

to look puzzled or baffled

to squander money, to throw money out the window

to go on without stopping, to go faster than expected

to be in two places at the same time, to be overburdened

to escape, to go over the wall

to keep a low profile

to be one of the uppercrust, to travel in the best company

to take a long weekend

to stop professional activity, to close down a business

to spoil something that someone else has built up

to count one's chickens before they've hatched

to build castles in the air, to have unrealistic plans

calm down, we're in no hurry, where's the fire?

it's not as bad as all that, it's not asking the impossible

it's halfway around the world

to fall from one's chair, to be completely taken aback

it's nothing to write home about, it's not that great

it's a long and difficult task, a Herculean task

to never have been out of one's backyard, to live in a cave

it's the last straw, it's the straw that broke the camel's back

to be crazy

to be dressed like a scarecrow, to be dressed any which way

to mingle with the crowd

an old car in bad condition, a beater, a hoopty

to be in the know

to hit the hay, to take a nap

to keep a pupil after school, to give a pupil detention

to go it alone

to have a ticket cancelled, to fix a ticket (due to influential friends)

a tall tale

to be well read

to know the score, to know how it works

to be crazy, to be nuts