1. Flying high
Meaning: very happy.
She’s flying high after the successful product launch.
2. Pumped up
Meaning: very excited about something.
He’s pumped up for his first half-marathon race this weekend.
3. Fool’s paradise
Meaning: a situation when someone is happy because they’re ignoring a problem or fail to realize its existence.
He’s been living in fool’s paradise since he started trading stocks, expecting to make millions even though he doesn’t have investing experience.
4. Be down in the dumps
Meaning: to feel unhappy or without hope.
I always feel down in the dumps when I go back to work after a long weekend.
5. Be at the end of your rope (American); Be at the end of your tether (British)
Meaning: to feel very upset because you’re no longer able to deal with a difficult situation.
Helen is at the end of her rope after looking for a job for months without any luck.
6. Grief-stricken
Meaning: extremely sad.
After his partner died in a car accident, he was left grief-stricken.
7. Bite someone’s head off
Meaning: to respond with anger to someone.
I just asked one question to confirm his request, and my boss bit my head off.
8. Black mood
Meaning: to be irritable, angry or depressed.
She’s scared to ask for a day off as her boss is in a black mood today.
9. Drive up the wall
Meaning: to annoy or irritate someone.
His constant whining drove me up the wall, so I left.
10. Have/get/feel butterflies in your stomach
Meaning: to feel very nervous or excited about something that you have to do, especially something important.
I’m going to have the first meeting with a big client tomorrow, and I’m feeling butterflies in my stomach.
11. Afraid of your own shadow
Meaning: very easily frightened.
After reading “Dracula,” she became afraid of her own shadow.
12. Petrified of
Meaning: extremely frightened, especially so that you cannot move or decide what to do.
In the “Harry Potter” series, Ron Weasley is petrified of spiders.
13. Feel out of it
Meaning: to not feel in a state of one’s normal mind.
He just woke up from a night of heavy drinking and felt so out of it.
14. Puzzle over
Meaning: to think carefully about someone or something for a long time and try to understand them.
I puzzled over the assignment for a few days before I decided to ask my professor for clarification.
15. Ambivalent about
Meaning: feeling two different things about someone or something at the same time, for example, that you like them and dislike them.
He’s ambivalent about quitting his job to start his own business; he wants his freedom, but there are risks.
Choose 5 idioms to your liking and make up sentences with them.
1)And you're ambivalent about what that means to the two of you.
ReplyDelete2)We spent a good deal of time puzzling over that ourselves, didn't we?
3)She's been running so long, she's afraid of her own shadow.
4)Now drive up the wall!
5)But she did say Lustig was having a bunch of health problems, was down in the dumps lately.
1. They do not like to puzzle over the problems.
ReplyDelete2. But then in the evening when he came back, he was in a black mood.
3. If he hadn't helped me then, I would have been down in the dumps.
4. Don’t do it, it drives me up the wall.
5. She was petrified of being fired.
1. After a big fight, she bites off his head every time he opens his mouth.
ReplyDelete2. I've been in a black mood for the last few day
3. Every time after watching scary movies I afraid of my own shadow
4. I puzzled over his behavior towards me for a few days
5. After losing my mother, my father was left grief-stricken.
In this day she was in black mood.
ReplyDeleteAfter failure she feels down in the dumps.
I puzzled over the whole night about the conversation with my friend.
My brother petrified of snakes.
I'm already pumped up for my vacations.
1. She flying high after she was promoted.
ReplyDelete2. The waitress spilled coffee on the client to which the manager bit off her head.
3. I have an exam tomorrow and I feel butterflies in my stomach.
4. In elementary school, I studied with a girl who was afraid of her own shadow.
5. She came to a popular girl's party and felt out of place.
1. If the leader is a fool, the government becomes a fool's paradise.
ReplyDelete2. Girls, I am at the end of my tether.
3. He was grief-stricken after the loss of his young wife and unborn child.
4. But then in the evening when he came back, he was in a black mood.
5. You know I'm petrified of bees.