English Slang Idioms (165)

"So your idea to make enough money to pay me for the car I sold you is to recycle aluminum cans? I think you are ......... at straws here. I think you need to think of something else and ask someone you know for a loan because you are not going to make enough by recycling cans to pay me," Hank told Jimmy.
spitting
grasping
harvesting
planting

"You know that her husband passed away yesterday and that you will get paid soon. Asking her to pay you for the lawnmower, at a ......... like this, is just wrong," Matt told his brother.
junction
place
time
event

"Management just told us that a lot of our inventory got destroyed in a fire and that we need to obtain more inventory immediately at all .........," Jim informed Candice.
cost
spending
investments
savings

"How much will it cost to repair the water damage caused by the leak in the roof?" Mary asked the contractor. "At ........., you are looking at $1,500 for the drywall. I can't tell you for certain how much it will cost until we remove some of the drywall and see whether any of the studs are rotten. If the studs have rotted, it will cost more to fix," he replied.
ideal
most
perfect
best

She hated the second and third weekend of the month when she was "on ........." at the newspaper. She wouldn't get paid unless she was called but she also couldn't leave the area in case of an emergency call.
call
page
inspection
ready

"We know that the victim was shot at close .......... He has gunpowder burns on his dress shirt," the police officer told the reporter at the crime scene.
sight
place
standing
range

His opponent was quite good at chess. He was very good and didn't usually have a hard time beating his opponent. He tried multiple strategies of attack but had been stopped at every ..........
check point
location
turn
mark

"Is $2,000 a good deal for a 2001 Honda Civic with 100,000 miles on it?" Lisa asked Beth. Beth replied, "It seems to be but I wouldn't take it at ......... value. Bring it into the shop and we will take a look to see if there is anything seriously wrong with it."
visual
guessed
priced
stated

"Well, ......... things first, we need to rearrange the shed. Then, we can get the dresser out of the bedroom and that will make room for the new king-sized bed," Steven told Clarissa.
one
priority
first
major

"We really got a good deal on this house. At first ........., it didn't look like much but all it needed was paint and landscaping," Bill told his wife.
eye
glance
opinion
thought