Idioms

Question	Answer
To be unable to continue to understand the main point of an argument or conversation	To lose the threat
To speak directly without trying to be tactful	To not mince your words
To express your anger	To give vent to your feelings
To talk freely for the first time about something which has been on your mind	To get something off your chest
To remove any tension or misunderstanding with someone by talking openly with them	to clear the air
To have very nearly remembered something/ be just about to say something	It is on the tip of your tongue
To speak sharply to someone	To bite someone’s head off
To avoid coming to the point of what you want to say	To beat about the bush
To quarrel with someone	To have words with someone
To say nothing	To hold your tongue
To inform as many people as possible	To spread the word
To find it impossible to take part in a conversation because the other person is talking continuously	To not get a word in edgeways
Ein glasklarer Fall	An open-and-shut case
Ein vorschnelles Urteil fallen	To make a snap judgement
Jdn. Zur Rechenschaft ziehen	To bring somebody to book
Etwas so gut wie möglich machen	To do oneself justice
Jdn. So hart wie möglich bestrafen	To throw a book at sb.
Selbstjustiz üben	To take a law into one’s own hands
Gesetzestreu sein	To be law-abiding
Selbstjustiz ausüben	Vigilante action
Ausprobieren und trotz Misslingen fortfahren	Trial and error
Ausgleichende Gerechtigkeit	Poetic justice
Sein Urteilsvermögen trüben	To cloud one’s judgement
Eine Gesetzeslücke finden	To find a loophole in the law
Jdm. Die Leviten lesen	To read sb the riot act
Seine eig. Gesetze machen, tun was man will	To be a law unto oneself
Seine Unschuld beteuern	To protest one’s innocence
Harte Gerechtigkeit	Rough justice
it Ins Fettnäpfchen treten	To put one’s foot in
Sich den Kopf zerbrechen, das Hirn zermattern	To rack one’s brain
Ausufern, aus dem Ruder laufen	To get out of hand
Ein Machtwort sprechen, energisch auftreten	To put one’s foot down
Einer Meinung sein	To see eye to eye with somebody
Ehrlich und offen sein, etw. nicht verhehlen	To make no bones about doing sth
Sich an etw. halten; etw. befolgen; spuren	To toe the line
To become angry or make someone angry, esp in a way to cause one to resist	To get someone’s back up
Eine Nervensäge sein	To be a pain in the neck
DieRechnung/Zeche zahlen	To foot the bill
Seine Nase in die Angelegenheiten anderer stecken	To poke one’s nose into sb. Else’s business
Jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen	To give somebody the cold shoulder
An Prestige/Ansehen verlieren	To lose face
to be pleased when someone leaves or when something ends because you did not like them- to no longer have to deal with someone	To see the back of someone
Seine Meinung sagen	To speak one’s mind
Jdn. Reinlegen	To pull sb’s leg
Knallrot warden (vor Scham)	To go as red as a beetroot
Seine Grenzen kennen; sein Geschäft verstehen	To have to know one’s onions
Kleinigkeit; Das ist doch nicht der Rede wert	Peanuts
Die Ruhe selbst sein	To be as cool as a cucumber
Faule Äpfel, schwarze Schafe	Bad apples
Ein Liebling von jdm sein	To be the apple of sb’s eye
Früchte tragen; Erfolg bringen	To bear fruit

To be unable to continue to understand the main point of an argument or conversation

To lose the threat

To speak directly without trying to be tactful

To not mince your words

To express your anger

To give vent to your feelings

To talk freely for the first time about something which has been on your mind

To get something off your chest

To remove any tension or misunderstanding with someone by talking openly with them

to clear the air

To have very nearly remembered something/ be just about to say something

It is on the tip of your tongue

To speak sharply to someone

To bite someone’s head off

To avoid coming to the point of what you want to say

To beat about the bush

To quarrel with someone

To have words with someone

To say nothing

To hold your tongue

To inform as many people as possible

To spread the word

To find it impossible to take part in a conversation because the other person is talking continuously

To not get a word in edgeways

Ein glasklarer Fall

An open-and-shut case

Ein vorschnelles Urteil fallen

To make a snap judgement

Jdn. Zur Rechenschaft ziehen

To bring somebody to book

Etwas so gut wie möglich machen

To do oneself justice

Jdn. So hart wie möglich bestrafen

To throw a book at sb.

Selbstjustiz üben

To take a law into one’s own hands

Gesetzestreu sein

To be law-abiding

Selbstjustiz ausüben

Vigilante action

Ausprobieren und trotz Misslingen fortfahren

Trial and error

Ausgleichende Gerechtigkeit

Poetic justice

Sein Urteilsvermögen trüben

To cloud one’s judgement

Eine Gesetzeslücke finden

To find a loophole in the law

Jdm. Die Leviten lesen

To read sb the riot act

Seine eig. Gesetze machen, tun was man will

To be a law unto oneself

Seine Unschuld beteuern

To protest one’s innocence

Harte Gerechtigkeit

Rough justice

it Ins Fettnäpfchen treten

To put one’s foot in

Sich den Kopf zerbrechen, das Hirn zermattern

To rack one’s brain

Ausufern, aus dem Ruder laufen

To get out of hand

Ein Machtwort sprechen, energisch auftreten

To put one’s foot down

Einer Meinung sein

To see eye to eye with somebody

Ehrlich und offen sein, etw. nicht verhehlen

To make no bones about doing sth

Sich an etw. halten; etw. befolgen; spuren

To toe the line

To become angry or make someone angry, esp in a way to cause one to resist

To get someone’s back up

Eine Nervensäge sein

To be a pain in the neck

DieRechnung/Zeche zahlen

To foot the bill

Seine Nase in die Angelegenheiten anderer stecken

To poke one’s nose into sb. Else’s business

Jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen

To give somebody the cold shoulder

An Prestige/Ansehen verlieren

To lose face

to be pleased when someone leaves or when something ends because you did not like them- to no longer have to deal with someone

To see the back of someone

Seine Meinung sagen

To speak one’s mind

Jdn. Reinlegen

To pull sb’s leg

Knallrot warden (vor Scham)

To go as red as a beetroot

Seine Grenzen kennen; sein Geschäft verstehen

To have to know one’s onions

Kleinigkeit; Das ist doch nicht der Rede wert

Peanuts

Die Ruhe selbst sein

To be as cool as a cucumber

Faule Äpfel, schwarze Schafe

Bad apples

Ein Liebling von jdm sein

To be the apple of sb’s eye

Früchte tragen; Erfolg bringen

To bear fruit

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