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• Get your wires crossed.

If people get their eires cross, they misunderstand each other, especially when making arrangements.

(‘Get you lines crossed’ is also used.)
• Give me five.
If someone says this, they want to hit your open hand against theirs as a way of congratulation or

greeting.
• Give me a hand.

If someone gives you a hand, they help you .
• Give someone a pieces of your mind.
If you give someone a piece of your mind, you criticize them strongly and angrily.
• Go bananas.

If you go bananas, you are wild with excitement, anxiety, or worry.
• Go under the hammer.

If something goes under the hammer, it is a sold in an auction.
• Graveyard shift.

If you have to work very late at night, it is the graveyard shift.
• Grease monkey.

A grease monkey is an idiomatic term for a mechanic.

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