1. Believe me after her holiday in Switzerland she will be as right as rain again.
2. Okay, it is not the handbag of your dreams but it is a present and you shouldn’t look a gift horse in mouth.
3. I was brought up to believe that it was wrong to wash your dirty linen in public.
4. Unluckily, things are up in air at the moment. I’ll let you know as soon as the decision is made.
5. In nutshell, I’d like to buy a house in some remote part of the countryside.
6. He’ll pay you back when pigs fly.
7. She did her utmost to break ice with the new neighbour, but all in vein.
8. I was walking on air when the doctor told me I was going to have a baby!
9. Parents and agents of successful child often kill goose that laid golden egg by making the kids work too much, and the kids lose the magic spark that made them special in the first place.
10. Reading between lines, I’d say it was a marriage of convenience.
11. The advertisers had to eat crow and apologize for their faults.
