IDIOMS

-To ask for the moon means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.

-When you hold the fort it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away.

-Under the table is a phrase used to describe secretive behavior often suggesting corruption or illegality.

-To horse around means to behave in a silly way making noise and causing disruption.

-When you say someone has chicken out of something, you mean they have failed to do something or they haven’t tried to do it because they were afraid.

-When you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life.

- A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night.

-When toy say someone is in safe hands you means they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled.

-A safe pair of hands is a similar expression it refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoiding mistakes.

-If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because they don’t like what you are saying.

-If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it you can easily see what you think is right and wrong.

-The phrase money doesn’t grow on trees means you mustn’t spend too much money as there is a limited amount of it.

-The phrase money is no object means that you have a lot of money avaible to spend.

-Let the chips fall there where they may means to allow things to happen no matter what consequences are.

-When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it’s very cheap.

-If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of different things but not achieving very much.