🍗 Bone up on
Meaning: Study hard, usually in preparation for a test
🔥Burn the candle at both ends
Meaning: stay up late into the night and then get up early the next day to carry on working
🔥Burn the midnight oil
Meaning: work late into the night
🏜️Come up trumps (or turn up trumps)
Meaning: unexpectedly produce just what’s needed at the last moment
🏖️Dead cert
Meaning: Something that’s certain to happen or be achieved
⛱️Draw a blank
Meaning: fail in attempts to remember something
📝Hit the books
Meaning: begin to study hard
📖In a brown study
Meaning: daydreaming or deeply contemplative
👜In the bag
Meaning: virtually guaranteed; success assured
🧣Keep your nose to the grindstone
Meaning: apply yourself conscientiously to your work
🧴Knuckle down
Meaning: focus on a project or a task
🎓Learn something off by heart
Meaning: learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory
🧸Make a pig’s Ear of
Meaning: botch something up; make a complete mess of something
🧼Make the Grade
Meaning: be satisfactory and of an expected level
🧣Moment of truth
Meaning: Critical or decisive time when you find out if your efforts have succeeded.
(You can relate it with Result Day)
🧺On course for
Meaning: likely to achieve something
⚖️Pass with flying colours
Meaning: do very well in a test or exam
🔦Rise to the occasion
Meaning: Manage to do something successfully in difficult circumstances
🧤Sail through
Meaning: succeed in doing something without difficulty.
🪑Study animal
Meaning: Someone who studies hard (the opposite of a party animal)
