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please, explain to me about these idioms cost an arm and a leg work my fingers to the bone keep my chin up pull his socks up go the extra mile raise a finger doing things by halves knowing beans about it make a meal make a meal of it go all out cut corners break your back go through thick and thin have one foot in the grave jumps through hoops

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cost an arm and a leg
work my fingers to the bone
keep my chin up
pull his socks up
go the extra mile
raise a finger
doing things by halves
knowing beans about it
make a meal
make a meal of it
go all out
cut corners
break your back
go through thick and thin
have one foot in the grave
jumps through hoops
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please, explain to me about these idioms

cost an arm and a leg = expensive
work my fingers to the bone = to work very hard (with a lot of effort)
keep my chin up = continue to be happy
pull his socks up = stop being lazy
go the extra mile = do more than is asked
not raise a finger = to do nothing, particularly when someone else is working
doing things by halves = 
knowing beans about it = never heard of this!
make a meal of something = to make an easy job difficult
make a meal of it
go all out = 100% effort
cut corners = do something incompletely to save time
break your back = work too hard
go through thick and thin = to stay loyal when things are good and when they are bad too
have one foot in the grave = close to death, not used in serious contexts
jumps through hoops = do as you are commanded by the boss (who is demanding unreasonable things)


Hope that helps

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Before posting this, you should do your own work trying to get the meanings and then ask people what you still don't understand. I suggest that you start with either the Cambridge Dictionary or the Longman Dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/an-arm-and-a-leg

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