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to work like a Trojan

2. actions speak louder than words

3. to break away from old habits

4. to know sb from Adam

5. a chatterbox 6. to add fuel to the fire

7. a screw loose 8. to add insult to injury

9. to break into loud cursing

10. to stoop down

11. to be alive and kicking

12. to take to one’s heels

13. as good as done

14. to burn the candle at both ends

15. off colour 16. no axe to grind

17. his bark is worse than his bite

18. to bark up the wrong tree

19. to have bats in the belfry

20. to bat an eyelid

21. like a bear with a sore head

22. to make a beeline for st

23. as busy as a bee

24. in one’s birthday suit

25. to scrutinise

26. to bite off more than one can chew

27. to have st down in black and white

28. as blind as a bat

29. wide awake

30. blood is thicker and water

31. to blow one’s top

32. to break even

33. out of the blue

34. to keep body and soul together

35. to tell sb a white lie

36. to be boiling with anger

37. to make no bones about st

38. on the brink of (crucial/ critical point)-on the edge of-on the verge of

39. to make a clean breast of st

40. to break sb in: hướng dẫn ai làm quen với công viêc
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41. in broad daylight

42. like a bull in a china shop

43. to break out in cold sweat

44. by hook or by crook