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CPE Masterclass U4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eat humble pie | admit that you were wrong |
| Get something off your chest | reveal or discuss sth that has caused one emotional discomfort and that one has repressed |
| Have a heart-to-heart | a serious frank conversation |
| Fall out with sb | quarrel and stop talking with sb |
| like a house on fire | get on very well from square 1 |
| like chalk and cheese | very different from each other |
| Stick it out | to continue to the end of a difficult or unpleasant situation |
| Cut one's losses | avoid losing any more money than you have already lost |
| Overbearing | too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant |
| Putting it mildly | used for saying that something is much more extreme than your words suggest |
| Call the shots | take the decisions; be in charge |
| Work a treat | operate very well |
| learn/teach the ropes | show someone how to do a job or activity |
| A slip-up | a mistake, especially a seemingly small error |
| Lash out at sb | suddenly attack sb or sth physically or criticize them in an angry way |
| The powers that be | people who have authority over others |
| Grievance | a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly |
| Like two peas in a pod | very similar to each other |
| Be at the end of one's tether | a situation in which one has no patience or energy left to cope with something |
| Have it out with sb | talk to someone about something they have done that makes you angry, in order to try to solve the problem. |
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