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+1. Be about to do sth
+2. That’s about all/it
+3. Add fuel to the fire/flames
+4. Take advantage of sth/smb
+5. After all
+6. (Up) in the air
+7. The apple of smb’s eye
+8. Cost/pay an arm and a leg
+9. keep smb at arm’s length
+10. Get off smb’s back 
+11. Beat about the bush 
+12. Get out of bed on the wrong side 
+13. Been there done that 
+14. Give smb a bell (informal) 
+15. To the best of your belief / knowledge 
+16. Bite off more than you can chew (informal) 
+17. Out of the blue 
+18. The bottom line (informal) 
+19. (be) bursting to do smth 
+20. (as) busy as a bee 
+21. Give smb a buzz (informal) 
+22. get a buzz from sth/from doing smth
+23. Be/get carried away 
+24. (build) castles in the air 
+25. (like) chalk and cheese (different as chalk and cheese), BrE, informal (Hard cheese -> bad luck)
+26. Around/round the clock 
+27. On cloud nine (old-fashioned, informal) 
+28. Not have a clue (informal) 
+29. Get/have cold feet (informal) 
+30. Have (got) smth in common (with smb/smth) 
+31. A couch potato (informal, disapproving) 
+32. From the cradle to the grave 
+33. Cry your eyes out 
+34. I’m/I’ll be damned if…(spoken) 
+35. From day one  
+36. Make smb’s day 
+37. Be/have to do with smb/smth 
+38. Dressed to kill (informal) 
+39. Dressed (up) to the nines (informal) 
+40. Drink like a fish (informal)  
+41. (take to smth) like a duck to water 
+42. Be all ears (informal) 
+43. At (your) ease 
+44. Easier said than done 
+45. Go easy on smb (informal) 
+46. Take it/things easy (informal) 
+47. Put all your eggs into one basket 
+48. Not exactly (spoken) 
+49. give smth a facelift 
+50. fan the flames (of smth)  
+51. take a fancy to smb/smth (esp. British English) 
+52. by far  
+53. far from it (informal) 
+54. be (all) in favour of (doing) sth 
+55. in smb’s/smth’s favour 
+56. at first glance/sight 
+57. (at) first hand  
+58. Can’t get over smth (spoken) 
+59. (not) get somewhere/nowhere/anywhere 
+60. Be glued to smth (informal) 
+61. take smth for granted 
+62. get out of hand  
+63. go hand in hand (with smth) 
+64. come in handy/useful 
+65. get the hang of smth (informal) 
+66. be hard on smb 
+67. hate smb’s guts (informal) 
+68. have it out with smb 
+69. head over heels (in love) 
+70. here we go again 
+71. high and low 
+72. get hold of smb/smth 
+73. bring home the bacon (informal) 
+74. come home (to smb) 
+75. keep it up 
+76. kick the bucket (BrE, informal, humorous) 
+77. kill two birds with one stone 
+78. kind of/sort of (informal) 
+79. (two) of a kind/sort 
+80. one of a kind 
+81. it takes one to know one (informal, disapproving) 
+82. know smb inside out (informal) 
+83. know your own mind 
+84. be common/public knowledge 
+85. make the most of smth 
+86. make your mark 
+87. mean (smb) no harm; not mean (smb) any harm 
+88. (be) a means to an end 
+89. if my memory serves me well, correctly, etc.; if memory serves 
+90. come/spring to mind 
+91. have (got) a mind of your own 
+92. by a neck 
+93. (as) good as new; like new 
+94. next thing (I knew) (informal) 
+95. next to nothing 
+96. it’s now or never 
+97. by numbers 
+98. a hard/tough nut (to crack) (informal) 
+99. (put smth) in a nutshell (informal)