| Idiom | Meaning | Example |
| it never fails |
it always happens, time and again
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It never fails - when I get in the shower, the phone rings.
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| it never rains but it pours |
when it comes we get too much, feast or famine
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"Tonight we don't have enough chairs for everybody."
"It never rains but it pours!"
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| it occurs to me |
this thought comes to my mind
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It occurs to me that we won't meet again until Christmas.
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| it phased me out |
it caused me to feel uneasy, throw you
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I was nervous when you did the bungee jump. It phased me out.
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| it seems to me |
it is my opinion, it is my view
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It seems to me that Don expects us to phone him every week.
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| it strikes me |
this is clear to me, this is my impression
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It strikes me that we share many interests and activities.
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| it takes one to know one |
one type of personality recognizes the same type
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"Elizabeth is such a fool!" "Takes one to know one."
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| it takes two to tango |
some things you cannot do alone; you need a friend to experience life;
two can share, fight, dance, love...; it is better to have loved and lost...
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Life is a dance. It takes two to tango!
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| it was a lark |
it was easy, it was fun, a piece of cake
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I learned to shift gears on a Peugeot. It was a lark!
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| it was Greek to me |
I could not understand the subject; it was like a foreign language
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When he asked me what I had learned about DNA, I replied, "I don't know.
It was Greek to me."
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