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1. To stir up a hornet's nest :- to cause trouble
2. 'Walk on air                     :- to be very happy about sth,
3. Achilles' heel                   :- weakness, weak spot
4. Tooth and nail                 :- very fiercely, wioth full force
5. To have the last laugh     :- to be successful at sth, in the end.
6. To cool one's heels         :- to be kept waiting for a long time.
7. To steer clear of             :- to stay away from
8. Head and shoulders above someone :- to be much better at something than someone.
9. To pay through your nose :- to pay a lot of money
10. To see eye to eye          :- to agree with each other
11. To be wet behind the ears :- young and inexperienced 
12. To sow your wild oats    :- enjoy yourself before you get married and settle down
13. Fish out of water           :- a person who does not fit in, out of place
14. To keep your head above water :- to make just enough money to survive, to manage
15. To pour oil on the troubled water :- to calm a situation, to soothe someone's anger
16. To burn the candle at both ends    :- to make yourself very tired by working too much
17. To have something up one's sleeve :- to have a good plan or idea which you are not telling anyone about now 
18. To chill somebody to the bone      :- to frighten someone very much
19. Blue eyed boy                :- the favourite of a person in authority
20. To eat one's word           :- to be forced to admit that what you said before was wrong
21. Make somebody's blood run cold :- make somebody extremly frightened
22. play to the gallery          :- behave in an exaggerated way to attract ordinary people's attention
23. On tender hooks             :- very tense, excited or anxious about what might happen
24. Off and on                      :- irregularly
25. Keep up appearance       :-hide the true situation and pretend that everything is still going