IDIOMS FOR THE CAE

Let’s go Dutch.

• On a conference is indicating people will pay for themselves instead of one buying for the other.

• On a date is indicating both guy and girl will pay for themselves instead of one buying for the other.

It costs an arm and a leg.

• Something is very expensive.

• Something is very cheap..

I am game.

• I am up for the challenge

• I am scared to do it.

Don´t beat a dead horse.

• To avoid a point, to finish in a particular action that is a big deal of time or has many chances of being successful.

• To belabor a point, to continue in a particular action that is a waste of time or has no chance of being successful.

A bed of roses

• An useless, convinient situation

• An easy, comfortable situation

Once in a blue moon

• an event that happens infrequently

• an event that happens frequently.

Don´t cry over spilt milk.

• When you are happy about an event from the past.

• When you complain about a loss from the past.

A dime in a dozen

• Something common

• Something rare

Go down in flames

• something ending or failing slowly and perhaps speciously

• something ending or failing suddenly and perhaps spectacularly

Kill two birds with one stone.

• to solve two problems at once.

• to make two problems at once.