dirt cheap - extremely cheap/poor, to put two and two together - to guess the truth from details that you notice about a situation, to bring the house down - to make the people watching the show laugh or clap very loudly, to stand in sb's way - to try to stop or prevent something or someone, to save for a rainy day - to save money for a time when it might be needed unexpectedly, to stand on your own feet - to be able to provide all of the things you need for living without help from anyone else, to be down in the mouth - to be sad, head over heels (in love) - completely in love, to keep (something) under sb's hat - to keep (something) secret : to not tell anyone about (something), cold shoulder - an unfriendly attitude shown to someone or something, especially by intentionally ignoring or showing no interest in them, to have a bone to pick with sb - to want to talk to someone about something annoying they have done, to rub shoulders with sb (to HOBNOB) - to meet or spend time with someone socially, esp. someone important or famous, rise and shine! - said to tell someone to wake up and get out of bed, the last straw - the latest problem in a series of problems, that makes a situation impossible to accept, to jump to conlusions - to guess the facts about a situation without having enough information, stone-deaf - completely unable to hear anything, a stretch - a period of time that a criminal spends in prison or a job, task, or role that is difficult for someone because it is very different from what they usually do, to cook the books - to change numbers dishonestly in the accounts (= financial records) of an organization, especially in order to steal money from it, to fight tooth and nail - to try very hard to get something you want, (down) in the dumps - unhappy, to catch sb red-handed - to discover someone while they are doing something bad or illegal, to kick the bucket - to die, to be (all) the rage - to be very popular at a particular time, to cry over spilt milk - to feel sorry or sad about something that has already happened; used to emphasize that this is not helpful, to lie low - to try not to be noticed, to sleep like a log - to sleep very well, without being woken by any noises, big shot - a person or an organization with a lot of power or influence, to fly off the handle - to react in a very angry way to something that someone says or does, on the house - given to you free by a business, to make ends meet - to have just enough money to pay for the things that you need,

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