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Idioms/Expressions. Advanced Class The Warehouse Madrid. c arry a torch (for someone). He is carrying a torch for Anna, even though she is in love with someone else. . To show great and unchanging loyalty to a person (normally love). p ick up the pieces.
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Idioms/Expressions Advanced Class The Warehouse Madrid
carry a torch (for someone) He is carrying a torch for Anna, even though she is in love with someone else. • To show great and unchanging loyalty to a person (normally love)
pick up the pieces • After her husband’s untimely death, it took Jane a year to pick up the pieces. To continue living life normally, after some tragedy that put a major roadblock in one’s way.
not worth the paper it’s written on • This entire accusation of Mr. Brown is a total fabrication; it isn’t worth the paper it is written on. • I don’t know how Ollie ever got a Ph.D. His diploma isn’t worth the paper it is written on. Entirely worthless, mostly because of the falsehoods contained in a document.
not the only fish in the sea • He said he could find other girls- she was not the only fish in the sea. • One of many; not the only one of the kind; not the only one available
sneeze at/nothing to sneeze at • Is a thousand dollars anything to sneeze at? • John finished third in a race with twenty other runners. That is nothing to sneeze at. • To think of as not important not to take seriously. Used with negative or limiting words and in questions.
take flack/draw flak • The proponent of the new theory took a lot of flak form the jealous, disgruntled colleagues. • The new sales strategy drew flak from the administration, until it was proved to be successful. • To draw criticism of all sorts, in random shots.
