Collocations, Idioms, and Linking words

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Collocations, Idioms and others

Definition

Keep your chin up

remain cheerful in difficult circumstances

Too many cooks spoil the broth

if too many people are involved in doing something, it will not be done well

put all your eggs in one basket

to rely on one particular course of action for success rather than giving yourself several different possibilities

Let nature take its course

to allow natural processes to happen, without trying to stop or change them (used especially in the context of illness)

Feeling under the weather

you feel slightly ill and not as well as usual

Feel like jelly (about legs or knees)

weak because you’re nervous

As a matter of fact

a fact

On the one hand

used to introduce different points of view, ideas, etc., especially when they are opposites. We use it with "On the other hand"

On the other hand

used to introduce different points of view, ideas, etc., especially when they are opposites. We use it with "On the one hand"

In other words

used to introduce an explanation of something

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