Idioms starting with E/G

English

Not quite remember

I easily remember

Fall on deaf ears

To be ignored or not noticed by other people

Flog a dead horse

To waste your effort by trying to do something that is no longer possible

Get wind of something

To hear about something secret or private

Get away with murder

To do whatever you want without being stopped or punished

Get your act together

To organize yourself and your activities in a more effective way in order to achieve something

Give somebody a bloody nose

To defeat somebody

Give somebody the benefit of the doubt

To accept that somebody has told the truth or behaved well because you cannot prove that they have not

Give somebody the cold shoulder

To treat somebody in a way that is not friendly

Get your head round something

To be able to understand or accept something

Go down a bomb

To be very successful

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