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| cheer up: to make yourself more happy, to choose to be happier | |
| give
me a break: exclamation--you think something is untrue or unfair
or you think too much is expected of you |
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| don't
stand a chance: to not have a chance |
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| down in the dumps: sad, low in spirit or mood |
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| one thing after another: usually
negative, means that things happened close together in time which leads
to frustration, used after "it's" or "it was" |
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| sticking
to/with: to continue with or stay with something |
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| it just
so happens: introductory remark used, positively or negatively,
to get the listener's attention |
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| to come
across as (something): to seem to be a certain way, to act a certain way, used to
describe people |
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| knock
on wood: means that you give yourself luck (or someone else),
often used when people make a positive statement and
fear that the opposite could happen (people sometimes knock on
something
wooden when saying this),
comes from old
times when people believed spirits lived in wood and would come to you
if you knocked. |
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| to
let someone/something get to you: to allow someone/something to
upset you |
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| over
(my/your/his/her) head: too hard to understand, one doesn't have
the knowledge to understand |
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| pay
off: to have a good outcome |
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