English Idioms

🎗️Get cracking

📖Meaning : to start doing something quickly; act quickly and decisively.

📖Examples :

📎Get cracking (= hurry), or we'll miss the train.

📎I'd better get cracking on the food for tonight.

🎗️Keep your hair on

📖Meaning :said to tell someone to stop being so angry or upset.

📖Examples :

📎Keep your hair on. We'll get there on time.

📎Keep your hair on! Your car isn't badly damaged!

🎗️Cut the mustard

📖Meaning :to reach or surpass the desired standard or performance, or more generally, to succeed; to have the ability to do something.

📖Examples :

📎I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player.

📎My neighbor had applied for the post of architect in a big project, but did not cut the mustard.