idioms and proverbs

with flying colors

• When you do something with flying colors, it means you do it

  very successfully.

• When you do something with flying colors, it means you do it

  unintentionally.

When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby

• When you pay some money for a regular activity, it becomes a

  hobby.

• If you take up a hobby, you shouldn’t pay money for it.

blood, sweat and tears

• something that necessitates a lot of physical activity

• something that requires a lot of effort and hard work

eat, sleep and breathe something:

• feeling the taste and odor of something you deeply want to taste

• being so enthusiastic and passionate about something that you

  think about it all the time

thank your lucky stars:

• to be grateful for being healthy

• to be grateful for having good luck

think outside the box:

• think in an original and creative way

• think just like the other people

explore all avenues:

• discover new opportunities to earn money

• try out every possibility to get a result

work out:

• turn out all right in the end

• result in failure

not all roses:

• If a situation is not all roses, there are some unexpected results

  of it.

• If a situation is not all roses, there are unpleasant things to deal

  with.

That’s all water under the bridge:

• a happy past experience

• a past occurrence, especially something unfortunate, that cannot be undone or rectified