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A SLIP OF THE TONGUE.
If
you make a slip of the tongue, you make a small mistake when speaking.
By
leaps and bounds….
Someone
o something is increasing or improving quickly or greatly.
a
pasos agigantados.
Call it a day Informal
If you call it a day, you stop doing
something that's usually related to work.
Cook the books | cook
the accounts.
If someone cooks the
books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business,
usually in order to pay less tax.
Grease someone's palm Informal
Meaning: If you grease someone's
palm, you pay them a bribe.
Have your hands full
Meaning: If you have your hands
full, you're busy.
Kill two birds with one stone.
If you kill two birds with one
stone, you achieve two things with the one action.
lose face
If you lose face, your status falls and
you aren't respected as much as you were.
Run-of-the-mill
Meaning: Something is
run-of-the-mill if it is ordinary and nothing special.
Year in, year out
Meaning: If something has happened
year in, year out, it's happened every year for many years in a row.
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