be dead from the neck upbe very stupid He is dead from the neck up; a thick, Egalitarianism as a philosophy is dead from the neck up, insofar as This project is dead from the neck up. google |
be dog tiredbe very tired Sorry, not much to say but my brain is dog tired, I'm sure my boss hates me. WebC Even though everybody is dog tired and thoroughly soaked. WebC Even now, my H works long hours (his unit is getting ready to deploy) and he is dog tired when he gets home. WebC |
be fed upbýt znechucen, otráven I am fed up with my treatment by my employer and am thinking of resigning. I am fed up with Disposable Devices and You should be too! Google I am fed-up of playing games for fun only. Google |
be in class of one´s/its ownbýt v něčem o hodně lepší než ostatní ve skupině The young runner who won the last race is in a class of his own. Longman Dict. of E. Id. My mother´s cakes are in class of their own. Logman Dict. of E. Id. |
be in sb´s good booksmít u někoho dobrou reputaci (dočasně), být v něčí přízni He thinks highly of our family and uncle is in his good books. google Anything and everything Spider-Man Ramu is not the sort to sign an actor just because he or she |
be in the knowknow about a lot about sth which most people do not know about With skills to match their perseverance it’s only a matter of time before the Everyone who is in the "know" knows their NASCAR. Google Dan is the man who is in the know about birds of prey. Google |
be lost for wordsnot know what to say But when the moment came I was lost for words. Google I was lost for words, disappointed, devastated and felt jilted. google I was so surprised to see him I was lost for words. |
be on the tip of sb´s tongueyou know it but you cannot quite remember it It was on the tip of my tongue to say the boss was out. Google The phrase "Eat me" was on the tip Her name was on the tip of my tongue and she could see |
be out of your brainbe very drunk He is out of his brain with happiness. Google They met when she was 18 and he was out of his brain on cocaine and John was actually a nice guy when he was out of his brain-washed robot self, as we |
be snowed underbýt zavalen (prací, povinnostmi...) When you go back to the kitchen to ask the cook for it, he is snowed He places an advertisement and, very soon, he is snowed under with candidates. But, since he started this job and he is snowed under with work, I will |
be the brains behindbe the person who organizes sth, esp. sth successful The Prosecution had long claimed that Federman Bob McTavish was the brains behind the shortboard revolution There, he was the brains behind the building of the Colossus code-breaking |
be three sheets in the windbe very drunk Maybe somebody is three sheets in the wind, just totally drunk and shouldn't even be behind the wheel. WebC He goes up Tower Hill to-morrow night at nine o'clock, walking very slow and very unsteady on 'is pins, and giving my two beauties the idea that 'e is three sheets in the wind. WebC There was much merry chat in the booking hall as we queued for tickets, until a character whom I suspected, nasty though this may seem, of being a politician of some description suddenly appeared. He was quite obviously three sheet in the wind, and accompanied by a smug-looking chauffeur. WebC |
be too clever by halfto be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people Everything about the show is too clever by half, especially the clichéd story setup, Usually, word play is too Sherlock's Home is too clever by half, but the beers are terrific ... |
be too much like hard workbe too energetic or troublesome an activity, sport, pastime etc. for somebody to want to do Anything bigger than this is too much like hard work.'; BNCI It was all too much like hard work. BNCI (De-rigging the spinnaker had sounded too much like hard work.) BNCI |
be wearing your teacher´s /lawyer´s hatto be acting as you do when you are working as a teacher, lawyer etc., which may be different from the way you act in other situations I was wearing my teacher's hat at the meeting. (Cambridge International Dict. of Id.) Wearing my teacher's hat I am excited by some of the modular schemes available at A-level, particularly those which enable the modules to be examined throughout the course and points aggregated for a grade at the end. WebC When I was wearing my teacher´s hat, I was in a classroom with 16 students working on degrees in teachimg English as foreign language. Google |