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Sweeten the pill

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Make something unpleasant more palatable; to make something bad seem less unpleasant

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the icing on the cake

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An extra enhancement. Something that makes a good situation better, and a bad situation worse.

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A tough cookie.

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A brave or indepedent person.

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Sell like hot cakes

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Be a great commercial success

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Have a lot on your plate

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To have a lot of work to do or a lot of problems to deal with

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That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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That's life.

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Have bigger fish to fry

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to have other things to do; to have more important things to do.

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a/the gravy train

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A secure and easy way of making money.

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Have sour grapes

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Be jealous of someone else's success

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Spill the beans

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To give away a secret or a surprise.

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Put all your eggs in one basket

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To make everything dependent on only one thing; to place all one's resources in one place, account, etc.

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Get egg in your face

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To be embarrassed by something one has done.

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Eat humble pie

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To act very humble when one is shown to be wrong.

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Chew the fat.

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Chat with someone. To gossip.

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Like turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas

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If people do this, they choose to accept a situation which will have very bad results for them.

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Doesn't cut the mustard

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Is not up to the job.

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The best thing since sliced bread

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Referring to something new and exciting, though often used ironically.

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Bread and butter

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The main part of your income.

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Know which side your bread is buttered

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Understand how you can benefit from something or someone.

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Talk turkey

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Have a Frank discussion: used mainly in American English.

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Take sth with a pinch/grain of salt

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To treat something sceptically or with reservations.

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Keen as mustard

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Very eager.

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