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13 Sayings connected with people's attitudes 2
To live and let live,
Its no use crying over spilt milk,
To have your cake and eat it
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12 Making comparisons about people's appearance
As bald as,
As blind as,
As brown as
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11 Achieving and not achieving
To get to grips with something,
To get nowhere fast,
To go according to plan
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10 Succeeding and not succeeding
To be streets ahead of someone so...,
To fight a losing battle,
To make a good job of something
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9 Sayings connected with people's attitudes 1
To dot your is and cross your ts,
To call a spade a spade,
To make a mountain out of a molehill
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8 Making comparisons about states
Like a bear with a sore head,
Like a cat on hot bricks,
Like looking for a needle in a ha...
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7 Praising and criticising; right and wrong
To give somebody a pat on the back,
To give someone a piece of your mind,
Never put a foot wrong
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6 Describing certainty and impossibility
To be on the cards,
To be a long shot,
To be a sure thing
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5 Keeping things quiet and not keeping things quiet
Not to breathe a word,
To keep something to yourself,
To let the cat out of the bag
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4 Making comparisons which emphasise or exaggerate
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3 Being safe and taking risks
To watch your step,
To be on the safe side,
To stick your neck out
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2 Getting angry and not getting angry; believing and not believing
To lose your temper,
Not to say a word,
Not to put it past someone
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1 Loving and hating
To think the world of someone,
To have no time for someone,
To be head over heels in love wit...
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