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Feb 2015
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025 - 10 Interesting "Water" Idioms

SHAYNA OLIVEIRA
About this episode

In this episode, you’ll learn the idiomatic expressions:

  • like a fish out of water

  • come hell or high water

  • in deep water

  • in hot water

  • dead in the water

  • not hold water

  • test the waters

  • keep your head above water

  • a watering hole

  • water under the bridge


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