If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) used the phrase “Tongue in cheek” while talking to Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show [...]
To give someone the benefit of the doubt means to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Hunter Tylo(Dr. Taylor Hayes Forrester) used the phrase “benefit of the doubt” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang(Brooke Logan) and Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) in the popular [...]
If a person calls the shots, it means he or she makes all the important decisions.
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24
Carlos Bernard(Tony Almeida) used the phrase “call the shots” while talking to Paul Schulze(Ryan Chappelle) in the third season, episode 10 of the popular TV show “24” as shown below:
Bold and the Beautiful
Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) used the [...]
The phrase “overstay/outstay your welcome” means to stay in a place longer than someone wants you to stay .
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Hunter Tylo(Dr. Taylor Hayes Forrester) used the phrase “overstay your welcome” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang(Brooke Logan) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful” [...]
The phrasal verb “drag someone or something into something” means to talk about someone or something when you are having an argument, especially when that person or thing is not connected with what you are arguing about.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) used the phrasal verb “drag into” [...]
The phrase “Lay/Put your cards on the table” means to tell someone honestly what you think or what you plan to do.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Antonio Sabato Jr.(Dante Damiano) used the phrase “lay your cards on the table” while talking to Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) in the popular TV show [...]
A wild-goose chase refers to a situation where you waste time looking for something that you are not going to find, either because that thing does not exist or because you have been given wrong information about it.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) used the phrase [...]
If a situation is looking up, it is improving.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Patrick Duffy(Stephen Logan) used the phrasal verb “look up” while talking to Lesley-Anne Down (Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Payne Marone) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful” as shown below:
If you see through someone who is trying to deceive you, or if you see through someone’s behaviour, you realize what they are really like and what they are trying to do.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) used the phrasal verb “see through” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang [...]
If you have an experience or a qualification under your belt, you have completed it successfully, and it may be useful to you in the future.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
John McCook(Eric Forrester) used the phrase “under your belt” while talking to Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) in the popular TV show [...]
