don t put all your eggs in one basket , to carry eggs in different baskets, don’t risk everything on one single plan or idea, Dressed to kill, wearing dangerous clothes, dressed very elegantly or attractively, Hot potato , a very hot potato, a sensitive or controversial subject, speak of the devil , to talk about the devil, said when someone you were talking about appears, Not my cup of tea,  not my tea cup, something you do not like, A piece of cake, something very easy to do, a slice of cake, To be all ears, to listen very carefully, to have big ears, To kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two things with one action, to hurt two birds, To see eye to eye, to agree with someone, to look into someone’s eyes, To be on the same page as someone, to read the same page in a book, to think in the same way or understand each other, Look like a million dollars, to look very attractive or impressive, to cost a million dollars, Don’t count your chickens before the eggs have hatched, don’t expect success before it really happens, to count chickens before they are born, The apple of my eye, an apple inside the eye, a person someone loves very much, Under the weather, under the rain, feeling sick or unwell, Make heavy weather of, to make something seem more difficult than it is, to make bad weather, Weather the storm, to survive a difficult situation, to stay in a storm, A storm in a teacup, a big reaction to a small problem, a real storm in a cup, As right as rain, feeling healthy or fine again, correct like rain, Come rain or shine, no matter what happens, when there is rain and sun, For a rainy day, saved for future problems or emergencies, for a day with rain, Chase rainbows, to try to achieve impossible things, to run after rainbows, Put the wind up somebody, to frighten or scare someone, to throw wind at someone.

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