Practice makes perfect - Continuously doing something to improve, Pulling your leg - Joking around, Take a rain check - To decline an offer that you will take up later, Rule of thumb - Principal that is strictly adhered / kept to, Smell a rat - To sense that something is not right, The spitting image - To look exactly like someone else, The ball's in your court - Telling someone it's now their turn to make a decision, Until the cows come home - For a very long time, Something said in humour rather than seriousl - Tongue-in-cheek, Under the weather - Unwell, Water under the bridge - Things from the past that are not important anymore, You are what you eat - If you eat bad food, you’ll be unhealthy, if you eat good food, you’ll be healthy, You can’t judge a book by its cover - The belief that outside appearances do not reveal what someone or something is really like, Working against the clock - Not having enough time to do something, Flogging a dead horse - Attempting to continue with something that is finished / over, Bent over backwards - Doing all you can to help someone, Break a leg - Good luck, Playing devil's advocate - To put forward a side in an argument that may not be your own in order to show the counter-argument / ensure all sides are discussed, Hold your horses - Telling someone who is getting ahead of themselves to wait / be patient, Driving me up the wall - Annoying or irritating somebody,

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