3. to make light work of smth.

Idioms

1. to come to the fore

2. love lost (between smb.)

3. to make light work of smth.

4. to do smth. willy-nilly

5. to keep a stiff upper lip

6. to beat smb. to a promotion

7. highly-flying position

8. elbow grease

9. to boost one’s confidence

10. let sleeping dog lie

11. to make a bad job

12. to keep one’s nose to the grindstone

13. to post a vacancy

14. through thick and thin

15. to have eyes like a hawk

16. to carve out a career for oneself

17. a big cheese

18. to be right up one’s street

19. a trying experience

20. to be in the doghouse

21. to make up for lost time

22. to weigh up all pros and cons

23. to be keen as a mustard

24. to be fingers and thumbs

25. to be dying for smth. / to do smth.

26. to give smb. up for lost

27. a godforsaken hellhole

28. below the belt

29. to be head and shoulders above smb.

30. to needle smb.

31. the lost sheep

32. to put one’s shoulder to the wheel

33. to make smb. redundant

34. to win by a landslide

35. a well-connected painter

36. on-the-job-training

37. the wages of sin

38. a fat chance

39. me, myself and I

40. to make a deposition

41. the lion’s share (of income)

42. fringe benefits

43. the ins and outs

44. a pig in a poke

45. to google a word

46. a competitive edge (in the market)

47. to take into account

48. a gift of the gab

49. to waive the charge

50. to do credit to smb.

51. to make do

52. on a need-to-know basis

53. to look a smb. up and down

54. in technical terms

55. to be running a temperature

56. concussion (of the brain)

57. cash benefit

58. a referral

59. to implore

60. deaf and dumb

61. bilateral cooperation

62. odd jobs

63. chickenpox

64. a benefit concert

65. emergency treatment

66. to inhale

67. to penalize

68. hunchback

69. interrelated issues

70. recruitment office

71. ulcer

72. over-the-counter (medicine)

73. the then president

74. digestive tract

75. imminent problems

76. hemorrhage

77. a refugee

78. to be in charge of smth

79. proactive

80. heartburn

81. Casualty Department

82. treatment allowance

83. an inquiring mind

84. pay-packet

85. hiccup

86. to refine the technology

87. lucrative job

88. measles

89. to be away on a course

90. inpatient treatment

91. secretions of saliva

92. adjournment

93. an entrepreneur

94. Job Centre

95. to downsize

96. to tackle the job

97. job opening

98. ticklish cough

99. to sue smb

100. labour market

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