| A | B |
|---|
| Mind your p’s and q’s | -to be extremely exact; be careful not to say or do anything wrong; mind your manners |
| Nose out of joint | -angry, jealous, or annoyed at someone |
| On tenterhooks | -uncertain, anxious, very tense; in a painful suspense about how something will turn out |
| Other side of the coin | -opposite side or point of view |
| Pot calling the kettle black | -the person criticizing another person’s faults is guilty of the same faults himself or herself |
| Pull no punches | -to hit as hard as possible; to attack with full force; to be perfectly honest; to not hold back |
| Red herring | -something deliberately misleading to divert your attention from the main subject; something irrelevant that confuses an issue |
| Red-letter day | -a day remembered as especially happy and significant |
| Snake in the grass | -an unfaithful, untrustworthy, underhanded, and deceitful person; a traitor |
| Throw the book at someone | -to punish severely for breaking rules or the law; to give the maximum penalty |
