“I’m Beat”      (I’m super tired)

“He hit it out of the ballpark!”     (he did amazingly well)

“Don’t flake out”      (Don’t fail to show up!)

“Let’s go Dutch”     (split the bill and each pay half)

It’s one thing to learn a new language, it’s another to submerge yourself fully into the culture where that language is spoken.  We U.S. Americans use some pretty ridiculous phrases!  So next time you are “down in the dumps” because you can’t figure out a slang phrase,click over to  https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/,  and look it up!

Interested but don’t have any specific phrase to research?  Before you “take off,”  check out this article where you can learn 25 phrases that you probably didn’t learn in your English Class back home.   https://www.weareteacherfinder.com/blog/english-idioms-colloquialisms-guide/