Thematic Index of Idioms: Drinking

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre el acto de beber:

Hit the bottle	Pissed as a newt
Out of your box	Three sheets to/in the wind
Dutch courage	Sober as a judge
Drunk as a skunk	Drown your sorrows
Drink like a fish	Drink sb under the table
A hair of the dog (that bit you)	On the tiles
Put hairs on your chest	Out the tiles
Down the hatch	Out of your tree
Go to your head	On the wagon
Off your head	Fall off the wagon
Out of your head/skull	Wet your whistle
Raise hell	The worse for wear
High as a kite

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Self-Importance and Humiliation

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre la Autoimportancia y la Humillación:

Airs and graces	Shoot your mouth off
Put on airs (and graces)	Look down your nose at sth
A fallen angel	Rub sb’s nose in it
Get too big for your boots/britches	Rub sb’s nose in the dirt
Cap in hand	Knock sb off their pedestal
Hold in court	Bring/take sb down a peg or two
Eat crow	Hoist by your own petard
Egg on your face	Eat humble pie
Egg all over your face	Put sb in their place
Laugh on the other side of your face	Swallow your pride
Lose face	Cut sb down to size
Have feet of clay	A slap on the wrist
Clay feet	Make sb feel/look small
Fall from grace	Knock the stuffing out of sb
The moral high ground	With your tail between your legs
Hat in hand	A (little) tin god
Go to your head	Blow your own trumpet
Get on your high horse	Take the wind out of sb’s sail(s)
Come down off your high horse	Eat your words
All mouth and (no) trousers	Come down in the world

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Money

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre el Dinero:

Cost an arm and a leg	Have money to burn
Live off the backs of sb	Money for old rope
Break the bank	Money for jam
Laugh/cry all the way to the bank	Money talks
Not have a bean	The smart money
Tighten your belt	Spend money like water
Foot the bill	Throw good money after bad
Take a bite out sth	Throw money at sth/sb
In the black	Not have a cent/penny to your name
Bleed sb dry/white	Feather your nest
On the block	A nest egg
Hold/keep body and soul together	Pay through the nose for sth
A brass farthing	Pay over the odds
Bread and butter	Grease sb’s palm
On the breadline	If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
A cash cow	Pinch pennies
A fat cat	Rob Peter to pay Paul
Not a/one red cent	Feel the pinch
A blank cheque	Dig deep (into your pocket)
Chicken feed	Out of pocket
Call/cash in your chips	Line your pockets
Take sb to the cleaners	Poor as a church mouse
Cut your cloth	A mess of pottage
Cut your coat according to your cloth	At a price
The colour of sb’s money	Everyone has their price
Earn a crust	Every man has his price
Save for a rainy day	Hold the purse strings
Down and out	Loosen/tighten the purse strings
Down the drain	Quids in
Go Dutch	Rags to riches
A Dutch treat	Riches to rags
Make ends meet	Bet the ranch
Through the floor	A king’s ransom
A fool and his money are soon parted	In the red
Fool’s gold	Into the red
A small fortune	Out of the red
Strike gold	Rich as Croesus
A gravy train	Strike it rich
Under the hammer	Highway/daylight robbery
Hand over fist	Go through the roof
(live from) hand-to-mouth	Hit the roof
Pass the hat (around)	(the love of) money is the root of all evil
Keep your head above water	Not have two nickels/pennies
Live high on the hog	to rub together
Blow a hole in sth	When your ship comes in
Burn a hole in your pocket	Put your shirt on sth
In the hole	Lose your shirt
Bring home the bacon	On a shoestring
Draw/pull in your horns	Skid row
Bleed red ink	On the slate
Keep up with the Joneses	Wipe the slate clean
Make a killing	A clean slate
Live like a king	For a song
In the lap of luxury	Pick up the tab
A licence to print money	(down) on your uppers
There’s no such thing as a free lunch	Keep the wolf from the door
A meal ticket

 

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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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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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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Sadness

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre la Tristeza:

A wet blanket	Cry your heart out
Not a happy bunny	It’s no use crying over spilt milk
In the doldrums	Down in the mouth
(down) in the dumps	At rock bottom
At a low ebb	Hit/reach rock bottom
At your lowest ebb	A shoulder to cry on
A long face	Cry on sb’s shoulder
Break your heart	Wailing/weeping and gnashing of teeth
A broken heart	Get on top of you

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Hapiness

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre la Alegría:

Float/walk on air	Rub your hands
Roll in the aisles	Happy as a clam/lark/sandboy
Full of beans	Happy as a pig in muck
Bright as a button	Happy as Larry
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed	Kick up your heels
Cakes and ale	At home
Grin like a Cheshire cat	Life is a bowl of cherries
Like the cat that got the cream	(the land of) milk and honey
Like the cat that ate the canary	Over the moon
On cloud nine	Tickled pink
In clover	A ray of sunshine
Make sb’s day	Everything is coming up roses
Fell like a million dollars	Look on the bright side
Laugh like a drain	Sunny side up
Grin/smile from ear to ear	With your tail up
In your element	Have a whale of a time
Let your hair down	On top of the world

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Limitations and Restrictions

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre Limitaciones y Restricciones:

Out of bounds	A fine/narrow/thin line
Set in concrete	Overstep the mark
A sacred cow	Beyond the pale
The dos and don’ts	Allow/give sb free rein
Forbidden fruit	Keep a tight rein on sb
The glass ceiling	Keep sb on a tight rein
Have your hands full	Bend/stretch the rules
Your hands are full	Trim your sails
Your hands are tied	With no strings attached
Have your hands tied	Without strings
Sth ties your hand	With strings (attached)
You can lead a horse to water	Cramp sb’s style
but you can’t make him drink	Step/tread on sb’s toes
Off limits	Over the top
Cross the line	Clip sb’s wings
Draw the line

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Expectation and Likelihood

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre Expectativa y Probabilidad:

Out of the blue	Flash in the pan
A bolt from the blue	Hang over your head
A bolt out of the blue	The smart money
Fell sth in your bones	Ask for the moon
Have a feeling in your bones	Cry for the moon
In/on the cards	Like looking for a needle in a haystack
Castles in the air	On the off-chance
Castles in Spain	Par for the course
Not a cat in hell’s chance	Pigs might fly
Not a snowball’s chance in hell	When pigs fly
Not have a chance in hell	Not have a prayer
Not count your chickens	Chase rainbows
Don’t count your chickens before	Read the runes
they’re hatched	Be a shoo-in
Just around the corner	A long shot
On course for	Out of a clear blue sky
It’s early days	The calm/lull before the storm
It’s early in the day	Straws in the wind
sb’s days are numbered	In the wind
Dollars to doughnuts

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Death and Illness

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre la Muerte y la Enfermedad:

Die with your boots on	Have a good innings
Kick the bucket	Blow sb to kingdom come
Pop your clogs	On your last legs
It’s curtains	Fight for your life
Push up the daisies	A fight for life
Dead as dodo/doornail	Put sb out of their misery
Dead as mutton	Put sth out of its misery
At death’s door	Below par
Like death warmed up/over	Under par
A living death	Be past
Die like a dog	Be getting past it
Bite the dust	Dead men tell no tales
Come to a bas/sticky end	Hang by a thread
End it all	Be/live on borrowed time
Buy the farm	Turn up your toes
Drop like flies	In the wars
One foot in the grave	Under the weather
Give up the ghost	Go west
Over the hill	Not long for this world

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Safety and Risk

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre Seguridad y Riesgo:

Raise/up the ante	Walk a knife-edge
Chance your arm	Risk life and limb
A good/safe bet	Take your life in your hand
All bets are off	Lightning does not strike twice
Hedge your bets	(out) on a limb
A bird in the hand (is worth	In the firing line
two in the bush)	In/on the front line
Put your head/neck on the block	In the line of fire
A close call	Lay/put sth on the line
A wild card	Be on the line
Throw caution to the wind	Lay it on the line
The coast is clear	Put your ass/neck on the line
Cover your ass/back/rear	Put your head in the lion’s mouth
A leap in the dark	Walk into the lion’s den
Dice with death	Daniel in the lion’s den
Better the devil you know (than	Risk your neck
the devil you don’t)	Stick your neck out
Put all your eggs in one basket	Sit pretty
Hang on by your fingertips/fingernails	Russian roulette
Play with fire	Play (it) safe
A red flag	Safe as houses
It’s your funeral	A security blanket
Light the fuse	A close shave
Run the gauntlet	Be on the safe side
In safe hands	By the skin of your teeth
Put your head above the parapet	The sword of Damocles
Keep your head below the parapet	Walk a tightrope
Put/stick your head in a noose	Leave yourself wide open
Off the hook	Sail close to the wind
A house of cards	On a wing and a prayer
Skate on thin ice	A wolf in sheep’s clothing
On a knife-edge	A sheep in wolf’s clothing

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Control and Influence

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre Control e Influencia:

Hold the aces	Lead sb by the nose
Twist sb’s arm	The organ grinder’s monkey
Have sb over a barrel	He who pays the piper calls the tune
At sb’s beck and call	In high places
Bring sb to book	In sb’s pocket
Pitch camp	The power behind the throne
A loose cannon	Putty in your hands
Divide and conquer/rule	Break rank
A lame duck	Hold sb to ransom
Have sb’s ear	Run rings round sb
Lead the field	Run riot
Twist/wrap sb around your little finger	Rule the roost
An iron fist (in a velvet glove)	In the saddle
Go with the flow	Tighten/turn the screw on sb
Play God	Put the screws on sb
Be the shorts hairs	In the diving/driver’s seat
Force sb’s hand	Run a tight ship
Get out of hand	By the short and curlies
Have sb eating out of (the	Call the shots
palm of) your hand	Have/keep sb on a string
A heavy hand	Pull strings
In the palm/hollow of your hand	Pull the strings
A steady hand on the tiller	The men in (grey) suits
Take sb in hand	Keep tabs on sb
The upper hand	The tall wags the dog
In your hands	Grab/have/take sb by the throat
Hold/put a gun to sb’s head	Under sb’s thumb
Bring/call sb to heel	On top of sth
Dig in your heels	A soft touch
Get your hooks into sb	An easy touch
Jump through hoops	Kick over the traces
Go through the hoops	The top of the tree
A hostage to fortune	Call the tune
Jobs for the boys/girls	Dance to sb’s tune
A law unto yourself	Kick sb upstairs
A longer leash	Wear the trousers/pants
On a short leash	Carry weight
Put your life in sb’s hands	Crack the whip
Flex your muscle	Have/hold the whip hand
Breathe down sb’s neck	Sb’s word is law

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Progress

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre el Progreso:

Get your act together	Make headway
Break the back of sth	On hold
Get to first/second base	Beat/flog a dead horse
Go/run (a)round in circles	Over the hump
Turn the corner	By/in leaps and bounds
Make/put a dent in sth	The light at the end of the tunnel
Within spitting distance	In the pipeline
Within striking distance	A sticking point
In the doldrums	On a roll
Out of the doldrums	Rome wasn’t built in a day
Drag your feet/heels	Keep the show on the road
The cutting edge	Get into/hit your stride
Push the envelope	Chase your own tail
Bear fruit	On the right/wrong track
Come/get to grips with sth	Bark up the wrong tree
Gain ground	On the up (and up)
Lose ground	Tread water
Make up for lost ground	The wheels are turning
Go great guns	In the works

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Fairness

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen a todo aspecto de legitimidad y justicia:

Leave someone holding the baby	Bite the hand that feeds you
Stab someone in the back	(way) out of line
A stab in the back	Off the mark
Below the belt	By fair means or foul
It’s just not cricket	A level playing field
Down and dirty	Level the playing field
All’s fair in love and war	Stack the deck/cards
Fair and square	Steal someone’s thunder
Move the goalposts	A whipping boy

 

 

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¿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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Success and Failure

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen a ítem Éxito y Fracaso:

Sacrificed on the altar of something	Go off half-cocked
In the bag	Go off at half-cock
Slip on banana skin/peel	Win hands down
Bang goes something	Beat someone/something hands down
Fight a losing battle	Set the heather on fire
Win the battle, lose the war	(the) dizzy/dizzying heights
Lose the battle, win the war	On a hiding to nothing
Go belly-up	Ride high
Strike a blow for/against something	Beat someone hollow
Back to the drawing board	Hit a home run
Go by the board/boards	Home and dry/hosed
Sweep the board	Bring the house down
Shoot your bolt	A house of cards
The brass ring	Hit the jackpot
The bubble has burst	Put the kibosh on something
Hit the buffers	Do a land-office business
In the can	(go down like) a lead balloon
Carry all before you	Hit the mark
Have had your chips	Hit the nail on the head
Clos but no cigar	A back number
Nice try but no cigar	Strike oil
With flying colours	Beat the pants off someone
Too many cooks (spoil the broth)	Hit/strike pay dirt
Too many cooks in the kitchen	Go pear-shaped
Earn your corn	Make a pig’s ear of something
Down/out for the count	Go places
Crash and burn	On the ropes
On/ride the crest of a wave	Come up smelling of roses
Go critical	Ride high in the saddle
Come a cropper	Clear/plain/smooth sailing
Carry the day	Come /fall apart at the seams
Dead in the water	A sinking ship
No dice	The sky’s the limit
Done like a dinner	Go up in smoke
Go the (full) distance	No soap
Down and out	The wooden spoon
A dead duck	Not set the Thames on fire
Bite the dust	(hit) the big time
Lay an egg	Touch and go
A white elephant	Throw in the towel
A feather in your cap	Come up trumps
Fall flat (on your face)	Come unglued
Drop like flies	Come unstuck
Wipe the floor with someone	Go to the wall
Deliver the goods	The (hand)writing in on the wall
Cooke your goose	Fall by the wayside
Your goose is cooked	Come up in the world
Make the grade	Not set the world on fire

 

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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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Thematic Index of Idioms: Disagreement

La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen a todo aspecto en el que uno está en desacuerdo:

Clear the air	Lock horns
The battle lines are drawn	Add insult to injury
A battle of wills/wits	Fight like Kilkenny cats
Join battle	Kiss and make up
Bad blood	At loggerheads
A bone of contention	A shouting match
Have a bone to pick with someone	Give someone a pieces of your mind
In someone’s bad books	Put someone’s nose out of joint
Fight like cat and dog	At odds with someone
Trail your coat	A slap in the face
At daggers drawn	A slap on the wrist
See eye to eye with someone	Cross swords
Mend fences	Jump down someone’s throat
Fight fire with fire	At each other’s throats
A flea in your ear	At one another’s throats
The fur is flying	Fight tooth and nail/claw
The gloves are off	Argue the toss
Take the gloves off	Never the twain shall meet
Have a go at someone	A war of words
Go against the grain	Not hold water
Go at it/someone hammer and tongs	Drive a wedge between people
Raise hell

 

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Authority - Memory - Disagreement - Success - Fairness
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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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