Idioms and Phrases

When it is up to you to make the next decision or step

• Ball is on your side
• Ball is on your way
• Ball is on your court

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CCSS.L.K.5C

Feeling slightly ill.

• Feel a bit under the weather
• Feel a bit under the mood
• Feel a bit under the cloud

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CCSS.L.K.5C

CCSS.L.K.4A

It is commonly used to mean that whatever you are discussing will never happen. 

• Yea, right! You will get Justin Bieber to ask you on a date when pigs fly!
• Yea, right! You will get Justin Bieber to ask you on a date when cows fly!
• Yea, right! You will get Justin Bieber to ask you on a date when cats fly!

Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue

• Beat around the tree
• Beat around the bush
• Beat around the grass

This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

• Costs an arm and a leg
• Costs knees and toes
• Costs a head and a shoulder

To drink heavily

• To drink like a fish
• To drink like a pig
• To drink like the Polish

To use your head, think smart

• Come on, use your loaf! I know you can solve this problem!
• Come on, use your brain! I know you can solve this problem!
• Come on, use your cells! I know you can solve this problem!

About the person who is very calm and untroubled by stress

• As cool as ice
• As cool as a cucumber
• As cool as a hangman

To die

• To kick the callendar
• To kick the yard
• To kick the bucket

It refers to someone who is completely crazy.

• Mad as a hatter
• Mad as a hare
• Mad as a bull