VOCABULARY - IDIOMS
Idioms beginning with G
Idioms beginning with G
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Game of Chicken
Meaning: A conflict situation in which neither side will back down for fear of seeming cowardly (chicken)
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Get A Charley Horse
Meaning: To develop a cramp in the arm or the leg
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Get A Word In Edgewise
Meaning: Be able to say something while someone else is talking a lot
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Get Along (with Someone)
Meaning: To have a satisfactory relationship
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Get Bent Out of Shape
Meaning: Become angry, upset
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Get Carried Away
Meaning: Become overly enthusiastic
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Get In on the Ground Floor
Meaning: Invest in or join something while it is still small
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Get in Shape
Meaning: Undertake a program of physical conditioning; exercise regularly
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Get Off Scot Free
Meaning: Be accused of wrongdoing but pay no penalty at all
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Get Off Scot Free
Meaning: Be accused of wrongdoing but pay no penalty at all
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Get One’s Ducks in a Row
Meaning: Have everything organized; get oneself organized
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Get One’s Hands Dirty
Meaning: To do the unpleasant parts of a job
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Get Someone’s Goat
Meaning: To irritate someone deeply
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Get To Grips With
Meaning: To begin to understand and deal with something
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Get the Ball Rolling
Meaning: Do something to begin a process
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Get the Picture
Meaning: Understand what’s happening
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Get the Runaround
Meaning: Be given an unclear or evasive answer to a question
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Get the Sack, Be Sacked
Meaning: To be fired
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Get the Third Degree
Meaning: To be questioned in great detail about something
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Get Wind of
Meaning: Hear about
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Get With the Program
Meaning: Figure out what everyone else already knows. Often used sarcastically, as a command
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Go Along (With)
Meaning: Agree to something, often provisionally
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Go Ape
Meaning: Express wild excitement or anger
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Go Ballistic
Meaning: Fly into a rage
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Go Bananas
Meaning: To become irrational or crazy
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Go Belly Up
Meaning: To go bankrupt
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Go Berserk
Meaning: To go crazy
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Go Bonkers
Meaning: To be or become wild, restless, irrational, or crazy; to act in such a way
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Go Cold Turkey
Meaning: Stop using an addictive substance suddenly, without tapering off
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Go Down in Flames
Meaning: Fail in a spectacular way
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Go Mental
Meaning: To suddenly become extremely angry
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Go Nuclear
Meaning: Use an extreme measure; because extremely angry
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Go Nuts
Meaning: To become crazy
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Go Off Half-Cocked
Meaning: To say or something prematurely, with a negative effect
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Go Off the Deep End
Meaning: To unexpectedly become very angry, especially without a good reason
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Go Off The Rails
Meaning: To go wrong, to begin acting strangely or badly
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Go Out on a Limb
Meaning: Assert something that may not be true; put oneself in a vulnerable position
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Go Pear-Shaped
Meaning: To fail; to go wrong
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Go See a Man About a Dog
Meaning: Go to the bathroom (said as a euphemism)
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Go to the Dogs
Meaning: To become disordered, to decay
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Go to the Mattresses
Meaning: To go to into battle
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Go the Extra Mile
Meaning: Put forth greater-than-expected effort
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Go Under the Knife
Meaning: Undergo surgery
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Go Viral
Meaning: Begin To spread rapidly on the Internet
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Go with the Flow
Meaning: To accept the way things naturally seem to be going
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Grab (Take) the Bull by the Horns
Meaning: To begin forthrightly to deal with a problem
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Grasp (Grab) at Straws
Meaning: To take desperate actions with little hope of success
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Grease Monkey
Meaning: A mechanic, especially an auto mechanic
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Grease the Wheels
Meaning: Do something to make an operation run smoothly
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Greasy Spoon
Meaning: An inexpensive restaurant that fries foods on a grill
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Green Around the Gills
Meaning: To look sick
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Green as Grass
Meaning: Lacking training, naive; often said of young people in new jobs
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Grind One’s Teeth
Meaning: Be very annoyed or angry about something without being able to say anything about it.
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Guilty Pleasure
Meaning: Enjoying something which is not generally held in high regard, while at the same time feeling a bit guilty about it, is called a guilty pleasure.
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Guinea Pig
Meaning: A test subject, a person who is used as a test to see if something will work
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Give and Take
Meaning: Negotiations, the process of compromise
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Give ’em Hell (often excl.)
Meaning: Express something passionately to a group
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Give Lip Service to
Meaning: Talk about supporting something without taking any concrete action
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Give Lip Service
Meaning: to Talk about supporting something without taking any concrete action
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Give One’s Two Cents (That’s My Two Cents)
Meaning: Offer an opinion, suggest something
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Give Someone a Holler
Meaning: Contact someone
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Give Someone a Piece of Your Mind
Meaning: Angrily tell someone what you think
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Give Someone a Run for Their Money
Meaning: Compete effectively with the leader in a particular field
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Give Someone an Earful
Meaning: angrily express an opinion to someone
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Give Someone the Cold Shoulder
Meaning: act hostile toward someone; to ignore, snub
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Give Someone The Old Heave-Ho
Meaning: Fire someone, remove someone from a group or team
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Give Something a Whirl
Meaning: Attempt something without being totally familiar with it
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Give the Green Light
Meaning: Approve something; allow something to proceed