Business English Idioms

We failed spectacularly. All our plans _____ up in our faces.

I wouldn’t trust everything Kevin says. He has a tendency to exaggerate and stretch the _____.

I should brush _____ on my Spanish before my trip to Mexico.

It’s very valuable. It’s worth its weight in _____.

Mark never shows his emotions or seems bothered by anything. He’s as _____ as a cucumber.

You could lose half your money in the stock market and still be _____ pretty.

Despite all of her success, she remained a humble, _____ -to-earth person.

To make a long _____ short, I moved to Chicago to be near my wife’s family.

I often wait until the last minute . I feel like I often do my best work at the eleventh _____.

You can’t work late every night. It’s not good to burn the _____ at both ends.