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To save the day means to prevent sth. bad from happening or to prevent sth. bad from getting even worse.
A willingness to meet with your opponent half way simply means that you're very willing to negotiate and make compromises.
If someone's proposal is deemed a nonstarter, it is not very good.
If someone's words step on our toes, they can hurt our feelings real bad.
Crying wolf has become synonymous with anyone raising a false alarm, especially to attract attention.
Lady Luck stands for good fortune, the chance of something good happening to you.
If you have to break your piggy bank to buy something, then it is perhaps too expensive.
If someone can't shoot straight with sth. they say, then they don't know what they're talking about.
People said they had a ball when they meant to say they had a good, exciting time.
Job lock refers to the situation where you are stuck with your current job.
That’s essentially what “going on a crash diet straight afterwards” means really.
In other words, Thatcherism prevented the teetering British economy from total collapse.
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