Book of Idioms, Episode 9

Crush on somebody (phrasal verb): [Also have a crush on sb]
- to have a feeling of romantic love for someone, especially someone you do not know well
* A guy in my class that I'm crushing on.
* I have a crush on my art teacher at school.

Face the music
- to accept responsibility for something you have done
We've had so much fun misbehaving during these three recent days, now that these things have gone too far, we've got to face the music!

be on the 'go (also be on the 'move)
- (informal) to be very active and busy:
* I’ve been on the go all day.
* Having four children keeps her on the go.
* Children are always on the go.

be at a loose end-
also / be at loose ends (American English) = to have nothing to do:
e.g. I was at a loose end so I decided to go see an old movie.

A bad apple
- a term for a person which is considered to be bad-behaved and give bad influence towards all others around him.
He's such a bad apple, don't hang around with him!

If you hae some idea of what something means, you have a partial understanding of the situation. If you have no idea of what something means, you have zero understanding of the situation. Partial understanding means you can guess. Zero understanding means you do not have the information to even make a proper guess.

HOLD YOUR HORSES - calm down, slow down. It is often used when you have to deal with someone who is speaking too fast and not well-organized, thus causing difficulty for you to understand.

"Fool's gold" is an alternative name of a real substance, but is used as an expression as well. As an idiom, it means false hopes of wealth/ riches. Someone might think that by doing X, he will strike it rich, but that might just be fool's gold.

To "tie the knot" is to get married; the expression tells us two people are "becoming one" in a figurative sense. This expression is being used for the upcoming wedding in the British royal family.
Ex.: "They will be tying the knot in less than four weeks from now."

Easy Come, Easy Go: a state of affairs where money is easily gained and easily lost, with circumstances changing quickly. This implies that a person needs to go with the flow, roll with the punches, and bounce back. It is therefore appropriate to some circumstances, but by no means all.

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