500 Really Useful English Phrases: Intermediate to Fluency

By no means: this means ‘definitely not’.

To ride it out: to endure a bad situation.

A close shave: a lucky escape

Plain Sailing: this is used when you want to say that something is easy and that the process was smooth

Throw caution to the wind: to take a risk.

to come to terms with

To make up with (someone):

To fly off the handle:

To think (something) through

To be over the moon