get around to : When you do something after waiting a long time to do it (perhaps because you are too busy, or too lazy) you get around to it – you find the time to do it.
Examples:
1. Most people never get around tosetting goals because they fear th
a lot of attention is given to / less focus falls on : when you want to express how different the two situations are, they are completely opposite. Attention is given to all those nice things, but very little focus falls on the difficult demand.
live up to something: that means to fulfill expectations; to satisfy a goal or set of goals. (Often with one's reputation, promise, word, standards, etc.)
Examples:
1. Jack is a man of his word. He always lives up to
swallow one's pride: to forget one's pride and accept something humiliating;to accept that you have to do something that you think is embarrassing or that you think you are too good to do
sleep on it : that means to not make an immediate decision about a plan or idea, but to wait until the next day in order to have more time to think about it.
Examples:
1. I'll get back to you tomorrow. I have to sleep on it.
go blank: that means to become unable to thinkExamples:1. Mary's mind went blank when the boy of her dreams asked her to go out with him.2. Tom prepared for his job interview, but his mind went blank when he sat down in front of his interviewer.3. My
foot the bill : that means to payExamples:1. You paid last time we went to the movies. Let me foot the bill this time.2. Whenever they go out to dinner with the boss, he foots the bill.