Dress up the truth	To make something appear more interesting or attractive than it actually is: The agent dressed up the truth about the old house
Foot the bill	Pagar la cuenta I had to foot the bill for repairs myself.
Short and sweet	Corto y breve He kept his answers to the police short and sweet
Be plain sailing	Pan comido The roads were busy as we drove out of the town, but after that it was plain sailing
Be on a roll (inf)	Tener buena suerte Rafa Nadal won five sets, he was on a roll
In a nutshell	En resumen In a nutshell, the things were better than now.
Make up my mind	Decidirse Are you coming with me or not? Make up your mind!
Do the trick (inf)	Ser suficiente I need something to put these papers in. This folder should be the trick
Come to a halt	Parar bruscamente It's time that this frivolous nonsense comes to a halt!
Put my fingers on (inf)	Dar en el clavo There is something odd about him, I can't quite put my fingers on it.
An awful lot of (inf)	Un montón de There are an awful lot of violets growing
On the big picture	Imagen general Wee need to consider the big picture and not focus just on the details.
Right and wrong	Lo bueno y lo malo I don't care about the rights and wrongs of the matter
Off the beaten track	Apartado The farmhouses we stayed in was completely off the beaten track
Out of the blue	Inesperadamente One day, out of the blue, she announced that she was leaving
Black market	Mercado ***** During the war, we bought food on the black market
Red tape (inf)	Papeleo Prepare yourself for a lot of red tape when buying a house in Italy
White lie	Mentirijilla His baby was ugly, but I told him a white lie
See everything in black and white	Ver todo en blanco y ***** (tener una visión simple) You have a simple view of what is wrong or right, you see everything in black and white
White elephant	Trasto The stadium is likely to become a white elephant after the championships are over.
Grey area	Incierto 18th-century British history is a bit of grey area for me
Red herring	Pista falsa Agatha Christie used red herrings to keep readers guessing.
Go on and on about (inf)	No parar de haber de She went on and on about the celebrities she'd met
Absolutely fanatical (inf)	Absolutamente fanático Ranya is absolutely fanatical of his favourite baseball team
Dependent on	Addicted to, rely on The patient became dependent on morphine
Hooked on (inf)	Enganchado a I am hooked on Turkish series
Have a thing of (inf)	Gustar I have a thing of chocolate
Keen on	Aficionado a She's very keen on eating Chinese food!
Fond of	Tener cariño I fond of my dogs
Deep down	En el fondo She looks like happy but deep down she's very lonely
Gut feeling (inf)	Instinto, presentimiento I have a gut feeling that something is wrong between you and Marie
Follow sth to the letter	Seguir al pie de la letra The illiterate slave followed the master's instruction to the letter
Pain in the neck (inf)	Lata Filling out the insurance claims was a pain in the neck
Has a quick temper	Mal genio Patrick has a quick temper but he always apologizes when he calm down
Cold fish (inf)	Antipático She's such a cold fish that she wouldn't even talk to me
Down-to-earth	Centrado Mary is a really down-to-earth person
Soft touch (inf)	Bonachón he's a soft touch, he's bound to say yes
Tug-of-war	Lucha The won't get anything until they cease this tug of war
Well-spring of	Fuente de inspiración He's a well-spring of knowledge
Hindsight	A posteriori Hindsight is always a lot clearer than your problems right now
Avant-garde	Innovador Picasso was a avant-garde artist of his time
Bear in mind that	Tener en cuenta Bear in mind that we already have and enormous sum invested in the project
At cross-purposes	En contraposición I was bound to act at cross-purposes
On the tip of my tongue	En la punta de la lengua I had a word on the tip of my tongue
Get the wrong end of the stick	Es un malentendido I'm not having a affair with your wife. You get the wrong end of the stick
Get my head around (inf)	Entender I'm trying to get my head around the subjunctive
Build up	Desarrollarse Johnson gradually builded up his business empire
Look down on	Menospreciar It's wrong to look down on people less fortunate than yourself.
Keep up with	Seguir el ritmo The old man struggled to keep up with his young granddaughter.
Get on (sb) nerves (inf)	Poner de los nervios Her husband's grumbling was starting to get on Olga's nerves.
Get anywhere	Tener éxito
Get a life	Hacer algo útil por la vida When I told them that I was translating the Bible into Latin, they said "Get a life!"
Get on a bit	Hacerse viejo
Get on like a house on fire	Llevarse muy bien
Get my act together	Comportarse como es debido
Look on the bright side	Ver el lado positivo
Have a hankering for	Anhelar
Turn your back on	Dar la espalda
Have a ball (inf)	Pasarlo bomba
It's like water off a duck's back	Con efecto nulo
Be like a fish out of water	Como pez fuera del agua (fuera de lugar)
Don't count your chickens before they hatch	No cantes victoria
Dark horse	Persona reservada
The lion's share	El mejor pedazo
I smell a rat	Sospechar
Kill two birds with one stone	Matar dos pájaros de un tiro
Her bark is worse than her bite	Perro ladrador poco mordedor
Money doesn't grow on trees	El dinero no cae del cielo
Tight-fisted	Tacaño
It costs an arm and a leg	Cuesta un ojo de la cara
They can't make ends meet at the moment	No llegan a fin de mes
We're in the red	En números rojos
It's daylight robbery	Clavada
Tighten our belt	Apretarse el cinturón
Live beyond their means	Vivir por encima de tus posibilidades
Hang on	Poner atención en algo

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