Spoken English: Flourish Your Language

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(^198) Spoken English II



  • Make it plain and clear

  • One sandwich short of a picnic

  • Ready for the funny farm

  • Buy for a song

    • Practice your plan

    • Older than the crust on my grandma's underpants

    • Statistics are for losers

    • Every man has his price

    • Blow your own horn

    • Here's your hat, what's your hurry

    • Busier than a one-armed paperhanger.

    • Bats in the belfry

    • Too clever by half

    • The enemy is at the gate

    • Every cloud has a silver lining

    • The golden age

    • A no-win situation

    • It's raining cats and dogs

    • He'd give you the shirt off his back

    • There's no fool like an old fool

    • This is a turd hunt

    • A feather in his cap

    • A very pretty box with a bow but nothing inside.

    • Time has passed him by



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