Alright foreigners, you can become American citizens if you score eighty percent on this simple vocabulary test of common American expressions.
A day late and a dollar short
Ace in the hole
Adding-up (or "not adding up")
Alpha dog
Analog
Aping (something or someone)
Back door man
Balk
Breech
Brush (with - )
Catch you on the flip side
Chain reaction
Chomping at the bit
Close shave
Close the deal
Close to the vest
Comb through - -
Come-to-Jesus moment
Coming to a head
Cracking the glass ceiling
Creative accounting
Credulity
Critical mass
Curve Ball
Cut to the chase
Cut to the quick
Decipher
Desegregate
Detente
Disintermediate
Dire straits
Dive
Do I have to spell it out?
Don’t get radical
Ears perking up
Ecology
Every dog has his day
Expecting fall-out
Expedite
Explicit
Facilitate
Feather-bedding
Feeling blue
Filibuster
Finalize
Flag-waver
Flake-out
Flash points
Flying the coup
Folded (as in "He or they folded")
Four-flusher
Gaping
Generic
Give the green flag
Gratuity
Green as grass
greenback
Half-assed
Half-baked
Hand in the till
Hard-wired
He’s an open book
Hitting below the belt
Hyperbola, hyperbolic (non generic0
Ice queen
Incendiary
Incentivize
Incredulous
Infinitessable
Infra-structure
It doesn’t pass the smell test
Kosher, not kosher
Landing on your feet
Lay your cards on the table
Leg-up
Let the deal go down
Liberal (generic definition0
Like a dog without a bone
Lion’s share
Lip service
Log jam
Long in the tooth
Long shot
Love nest
Man up
Medical care rationing
Monkey wrench (colloquial)
Muddying the waters
Negatori
Nosed out
Not cool
Not fit for mixed company
O C D
Off the record
On the level
On the quiet
Oreo
Organ donor (colloquial)
Out of left field
Out of sight
Over-kill
Own the thing
Panning out, and not panning out
Paper trail
Pardon my French
Pay dirt
Percentage, no percentage
Peppery
Pie-hole
Pink noise
Playing the race card
Plugging leaks
Political correctness
Pony-up
Pro-rated
Pull in your claws
Pulling out (in a colloquial sense)
Pull up stakes
Putting in your two cents worth
Purring like a kitten
Putting a thing or person down
Ranked, ranked-out
Ratting-out
Recidivism
Reckoning
Reverberations
Right off the bat
Right on, right on the money
Rip-off
Room temperature IQ
Running the table
Road block
Saccrine (non generic)
Sand in your sugar
See the hand writing on the wall
Serpentine
Short circuit
Sifting information
Singing like a canary
Six feet under
Sketchy
Smokey bear
Smelling blood
Speaking out of turn
Stepping over the line
Stone-wall
Striking-out (most common)
Swimming with the fishes
Take with a grain of salt
Ten – four
That doesn’t fit
That’s a little too blue
The game is in the refrigerator
The thin blue line
That doesn't relate
Throwing strikes
Thumbs down
Thumbs up
Too many strikes against him
Transitioning
Trump
Two-bit
Ultravires
Under-dog
Watering hole
Wearing your heart on your sleeve
Wet behind the ears
Whistle-blower
Wrap this up
Yes-men
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