To check in with someone: To talk to or visit with someone for the purpose of saying hi, or letting someone know that you’re okay.
To have a rough time of it: To experience difficulty dealing with a situation.
To feel or be under the weather: To feel ill, to feel less than healthy.
To catch a bug: To become sick with a cold or flu.
To get over something: To no longer suffer the pain or discomfort of something. This expression can also mean, “to move on, to feel better after a difficult situation.”
To be back on your feet: To recover from sickness, to feel healthyagain.
To be up to speed on something: To know or have all the necessary information about something.
To pull through: To overcome a temporary difficult situation,including a serious injury or illness.
To take a nosedive: To become worse very quickly. Notice that“nose-dive” is also a verb.
To go downhill: To become bad very quickly. To deteriorate.
To catch off-guard: To catch someone unprepared. To happenwithout expectation or by surprise.
To take something: To react to a situation emotionally. Torespond to something.
To be hanging in there: To handle something as well as can be expected, especially a very difficult situation.
To be up to your neck in something: To have a lot of something to deal with, look after, or take care of.
To cost a pretty penny: To be expensive.
To be worth every dime: To be a reasonable match of value and cost.
To bend over backwards: To do more than is required or expected in order to help someone.
To take a toll on someone: To have negative consequences for someone.
To pay your respects: To visit the family of a deceased person inorder to show you care and tell them you are sorry.
To catch a flight: To take a plane to somewhere, sometimes onshort notice.
To take off from something: To not attend your normally scheduled activity, such as work.
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