Spoken English: Flourish Your Language

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  • Counting on it

  • Green with envy

  • Honest Injun

  • Don't give up your day job

  • The cotton belt

    • It was like a circus



  • I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole

    • Take a licking and keep on ticking

    • Whatever lifts your skirt



  • A chink in the armour

    • Against all hope

    • Full of himself

    • Be your own man



  • You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar

    • Home is where the heart is

    • Que sera, sera

    • Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater

    • Early to bed and early to rise makes a man health, wealthy
      and wise.

    • He thinks he's shit on a stick but he's only a fart on a twig

    • Put on the back burner

    • Hit with an ugly stick

    • Jumpy as peas on a hot griddle

    • The powers that be

    • Close enough for government work.



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