To be in the market for something: To want to buy something, to be looking to buy something.
To mull something over: To think about something. To consider a situation.
To be a steal: To be a great bargain. To get a lot of value for your money.
To go up: To increase, to become higher or larger.
To go through the roof: With reference to money, price, value, itmeans “to become very high.” To have an extreme, angry reaction.
To be a drop in the bucket: To be small in comparison to something else, to be a very small portion of some much larger total.
To clean up: To make a very large profit, to make a lot of money.
To take your time doing something: To not rush. To do something slowly and carefully.
To be burned: To be betrayed,fooled, or hurt, especially after expecting a positive outcome
To eye something up: To look at, examine, or consider visually.
To chomp at the bit: To be very anxious or eager to dosomething.
To strike while the iron’s hot: To take advantage of a favorable opportunity.
To talk something over: To discuss carefully in order to come to adecision.
To make yourself scarce: To leave, to move away from someone. Rude when said to someone else
A dream come true: Something wonderful, something so good it’s as though it came out of a dream.
To keep in mind: To remember. To consider.
To talk something up: To praise something verbally. To speak highly of something or exaggerate its value.
A catch: A drawback or negative quality that might not be obvious. In other contexts,“a catch” is a person who would be good to date.
To be hung up on something: To find fault with something, to identify a weakness or a drawback in something.
At your fingertips: Readily available.
To lose your shirt: To become financially ruined. To lose a lot of money.
A crapshoot: A chance or risk, named after the dice game.
Nest egg: A sum of money saved up and set aside.
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