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Off the gridSomeone who is off the grid lives outside society and chooses not to follow its rules and conventions.
Off the top of your head
If you say something off the top of your head, you don't think about it beforehand.
Run off your feet
If you are run off your feet, you are extremely busy and don't have enough time to do everything.
Get off the ground
If a project or plan gets off the ground, it starts to be put into operation.
Fall off the wagon
If someone falls off the wagon, they start drinking after having given up completely for a time.
Sweep off your feet
If you are swept off your feet, you lose control emotionally when you fall in love or are really impressed.
Get it off your chest
If you get something off your chest, you confess to something that has been troubling you.
The apple does not fall far from the tree
Offspring grow up to be like their parents.
Mexican standoff
When there is a deadlock in strategy and neither side can do anything that will ensure victory, it's a Mexican standoff.
Get the monkey off your back
If you get the monkey off your back, you pass on a problem to someone else.
Bite someone's head off
If you bite someone's head off, you criticise them angrily.
Wake up and smell the coffee
When someone doesn't realise what is really happening or is not paying enough attention to events around them, you can tell them to wake up and smell the coffee.
Bounce ideas
If you bounce ideas off someone, you share your ideas with them to know whether they think they would work.
Both ends meet
If you make both ends meet, you live off the money you earn and don't go into debt.
Put some dirt on it
This means that when you get hurt, you should rub it off or shake it off and you'll be ok.
Politically correct
Things or people that are politically correct use language that will not cause offence.
Bring to the table
If you bring something to the table, you make a contribution or an offer in a discussion or negotiation.
Cream rises to the top
A good person or idea cannot go unnoticed for long, just as cream poured in coffee or tea eventually rises to the top.
Rough end of the stick
To get the rough end of the stick is to be treated unfairly or to come off worse than the other party in a transaction, situation or relationship.
Drive home
The idiomatic expression 'drive home' means 'reinforce' as in 'The company offered unlimited technical support as a way to drive home the message that customer satisfaction was its highest priority.'
Drop like flies
This means that something is disappearing very quickly. For example, if you said people were dropping like flies, it would mean that they were dying off, quitting or giving up something rapidly.
Hand in hand
Hand in hand= work together closely When people in a group, say in an office or in a project, work together with mutual understanding to achieve the target, we say they work hand in hand. There is no lack of co-operation and each synchoranises the activity with that of the...
Steal a march
This expression indicates the stealthiness of a person over another to gain advantage of the situation. For instance, if two persons are offered some jobs which are vacant, they resolve to go together next day at an agreed time, but one of them, without telling the other, goes earlier than...
End in smoke
If something ends in smoke, it produces no concrete or positive result. This expression refers to the boasting by a person, of having put in a lot of efforts by him, for a particular cause or to attain a result which is very difficult to be done by any person....
Wag the dog
To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue.The expression comes from the saying...
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