Meaning : Put in ahigh gear
Meaning : Turned pale
Meaning : Became someone else's property
Meaning : Full and precise reference to authority
Meaning : Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp
Meaning : Someone who is chasing rainbows is trying to get something they will never obtain
Meaning : Register one's arrival
Meaning : Verbally Scold Someone
Meaning : If you chew the fat with somebody, you chat in an informal way about unimportant things
Meaning : Cowardly
Meaning : If you chicken out of something, you decide not to do something because you are afraid.
Meaning : If you chime in, you interrupt or join a conversation, especially to repeat or agree with something
Meaning : Angry today about something that occurred in the past
Meaning : If you chop and change, you constantly change your opinion, plans or methods and often cause confusion.
Meaning : To eat
Meaning : A clean slate is a record of your work or actions that does not show past mistakes and allows you to make a fresh start
Meaning : Leave and not return
Meaning : Solve by removing doubt
Meaning : If you decide to clear the air, you try to remove the causes of fear, worry or suspicion by talking about them openly.
Meaning : In a business relationship, if you clinch a deal, you reach agreement on a proposal or offer.
Meaning : If you clip someone's wings, you do something to restrict their freedom.
Meaning : This expression refers to an effort to do something which was a good attempt but not quite good enough to succeed.
Meaning : Stop taking orders, end a bookkeeping period
Meaning : If a remark or comment is close to home, it is so true, or it affects you so directly, that you feel uncomfortable.
Meaning : Idle invention, Made up story
Meaning : Making money very rapidly, earning large sums easily
Meaning : If you make cold calls, you telephone potential customers from a list of people you do not know.
Meaning : If you collect your thoughts, you try to think calmly and clearly in order to prepare yourself mentally for something.
Meaning : To suffer
Meaning : Be understood clearly
Meaning : Hurry
Meaning : To say that someone is coming apart at the seams means that they are extremely upset or under severe mental stress
Meaning : Return a rebuke in rude manner
Meaning : Criticize
Meaning : Any difficult situation or obstacle
Meaning : To say that something may come in handy means that it may be useful some time or other.
Meaning : When you come into your own, you receive the credit or recognition you deserve.
Meaning : Stop talking nonsense
Meaning : Overwhelm with excessively strong language or personality
Meaning : If a problem or difficult situation comes to a head, it reaches a point where action has to be taken.
Meaning : If two or more people come to blows, they start to fight.
Meaning : If someone or something comes to grief, they have an accident, are destroyed or end in failure.
Meaning : Attaining prominence, becoming conspicuous
Meaning : Invent
Meaning : illegally change information in accounting books in a company
Meaning : Preparing false accounts
Meaning : Neat, special, wonderful
Meaning : Calm down
Meaning : If something costs an arm and a leg, it is very expensive!
Meaning : If the authorities decide to crack down on something, they enforce the law by taking severe measures to restrict undesirable or criminal actions.