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to give up to tell stories to be full of energy to retreat into one's shell to get on your high horse to have a green thumb to make a mountain out of a molehill to make a blunder to have your head in the clouds to stand someone up

to have money to act like the boss, to be a little tyrant to take a chair to be a scaredy-cat to talk through one's hat to sleep badly to chase skirts to be incapable of acting, to sit back and wait for things to happen it's tacky to be over the moon

to declare your love to be dumbstruck to stand someone up, to break up (with someone) to be two-faced to reject someone to bribe (someone)

to be a renovation whiz to spend the night in the slammer to get spooked to grind one’s gears to look down one’s nose to get plastered to be peeved to chug to carry a torch for someone to go curly 

to tidy up  to bunk down to pout to snooze to do a headstand to take a tumble to act the fool  to be itchy to stumble to be on the verge of there’s no rush jumble