Relationships and people

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IDIOMS: talking about relationships and people


Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth

Have advantages because you come from a rich family


Be on the same wavelenght

Understand the way another person thinks because you often have the same ideas and opinions they do


Get on like a house on fire

Become good friends very quickly and have a lot to talk to each other about


Be in somebody’s good books Be in somebody’s bad books Used for saying that someone is pleased / annoyed with you


Used for saying that two people look, behave or think exactly the same


On good term with somebody

Have a good relationship with someone


Put something in perspective

Provide a sensible way of judging how good, bad, important, etc something is in Comparison with other things


The flesh is weak Also: somebody is also human

Used for saying someone has been weak in the ways most people are weak and should Not be blamed for their behaviour


See eye to eye with somebody

Agree with someone or have the same opinion as them


Your flesh and blood

Your relative



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