Relationships and people

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Idioms used to talk about people

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IDIOMS: talking aboutrelationships and people

Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth

Have advantages because you come from a rich family

Be on the same wavelenght

Understand the way another person thinks because you often have the same ideas and opinions they do

Get on like a house on fire

Become good friends very quickly and have a lot to talk to each other about

Be in somebody’s good books

Be in somebody’s bad books

Used for saying that someone is pleased / annoyed with you

Used for saying that two people look, behave or think exactly the same

On good term with somebody

Have a good relationship with someone

Put somethingin perspective

Provide a sensible way of judging how good, bad, important, etc something is in

Comparison with other things

The flesh is weakAlso: somebody is also human

Used for saying someone has been weak in the ways most people are weak and shouldNot be blamed for their behaviour

See eye to eye with somebody

Agree with someone or have the same opinion as them

Your flesh and blood

Your relative