lundi 7 avril 2014

Thematic Index of Idioms: Trouble and Difficulty

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre los Problemas y Dificultades:

Overturn/upset the applecart Hole-in-the corner
Have your back to the wall Hole-and-corner
A baptism of fire In a hole
A double bind Need sth like a hole in the head
Bite off more than you can chew Stir up a hornet’s nest
A stumbling block Like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall
Like getting blood out of a stone/turnip A Gordian knot
Rock the boat Not have a leg to stand on
Bear the brunt of sth dead meat
On the bubble Go/put through the mill
Put/set the cat among the pigeons A millstone around your neck
A Catch Have a monkey on your back
Chicken and egg A mountain to climb
(when) the chips are down A tall order
A vicious circle Growing pains
In a (tight) corner A Pandora’s box
Box/paint sb into a corner Be no picnic
Count the cost Jump the rails
Up shit creek A bumpy/rough ride
Up the creek (without a paddle) Between a rock and a hard place
A cross to bear A hard/tough row to hoe
Throw sb a curve (ball) In deep shit
Curve balls In the shit
Plumb the depths The shit hits the fan
In Dutch On the skids
The eye of the storm Your ass in a sling
Up to the eyeballs In the soup
Blow up in your face Put/throw a spanner in the works
Explode in your face Put a spoke in sb’s wheel
The fat is in the fire On the spot
Get your fingers burned In a cleft stick
Burn your fingers Clutch/grasp at straws
The fly in the ointment A drowning man will clutch at a straw
Put your foot in it In Queer Streets
Put your foot in your mouth Like pulling teeth
Out of the frying pan into the fire Teething problems/troubles
Add fuel to the fire/flames In deep/hot water
The genie is out of the bottle Fish in troubled waters
Let the genie out of the bottle Make waves
An own goal A tangled web
Up a gum tree (bat) on a sticky wicket
hang sb out to dry swing/twist in the wind
Be/get in over your head out of the woods
Go through hell have your work cut out
Put sb through hell a bag/can of worms
Play (merry) hell (with sth) throw a (monkey) wrench into the works
There’ll be (merry) hell to pay go through the wringer
Through/to hell and back be put through the wringer
 

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Happiness - Sadness - Trouble - Money - Humiliation
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See also:

¿Que son los Idioms? Particles List of Phrasal Verbs
Gramatica de un Idiom Lista de Términos Gramaticales
Importancia de los Idioms Common misspellings
Como aprender Idioms Irregular verbs List
Common Clichés Particles List of Phrasal Verbs
Common Slangs Abz Grammar Top Tips

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