[screw up] {v. phr.}, {slang}, {semi-vulgar}, {best avoided} 1. To make a mess of, to make an error which causes confusion. * /The treasurer screwed up the accounts of the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

(160-43 B.C.), Roman orator and philosopher You must look out in Britain that you are not cheated by the charioteers.

make ends meet

[make ends meet] {v. phr.} To have enough money to pay one's bills; earn what it costs to live. * /Both husband and wife had […]

the matter

[the matter] {adj.} Not as it should be; wrong. - Used in questions or with negatives or "if". * /Why don't you answer me? […]

fall to

[fall to] {v.} 1. To begin to work. * /The boys fell to and quickly cut the grass./ Syn.: [TURN TO]. 2. To begin to fight. […]

lay-away plan

[lay-away plan] {n.} A plan for buying something that you can't pay cash for; a plan in which you pay some money down and pay […]

Margaret Brucker, Reader's Digest

(April 1976) Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we drop a bunch of clothes hangers.

Sozo Exchange

About 300 free episodes on American English "Sozo Exchange - Where Adults Learn English & Exchange Ideas" This is an American […]

bumfreezer

[bumfreezer] {n.} any short jacket but in particular an Eton Jacket.