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• Bow and scrap.
Try too hard to please someone in a position of authority.
• Brass monkey weather.
Extremely cold weather.
• Be tailor made
To be completely suitable for someone.
• Break the ice.
To make more comfort or relaxed with a person whom you have not met earlier, to break the silence.
• Be as clear as mud.
To be impossible to understand.
• Be on cloud nine.
Be very happy.
• Between the devil and deep blue sea.
A type of situation where u must choose between two equally unpleasant situations.
• Be in the doldrums.
Not very seccessful or nothing new is taking place.
• Beat the drum.
To speak eagerly about something you support.
• Be on the edge.
To be nervous or worried about something.
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