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This means not to take what someone says too
seriously.

- Taste of your own medicine
Means that something happens to you, or is done to
you, that you have done to someone else

- To hear something straight from the horse's
mouth

To hear something from the authoritative source.

- Whole nine yards
Everything. All of it.

- Wouldn't be caught dead
Would never like to do something

- Your guess is as good as mine
To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question
Add up: My wife writes long lists of figures, then
asks me to add them up.
As well as: he's wearing a coat as well as a pullover.
A matter of: "Please hurry! It's a matter of life and
death"
A good mind to: "Yes. I've a good mind to tell the
boss what I think of it."

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