Make do with what you’ve got. Just be happy with what you’ve got. You need to resolve the situation with whatever is at your disposal. Wishing for more money or help won’t help you finish the task.

A situation that has a lot of up-side potential, but not a lot of risks involved.

There’s no accounting for tastes. Some people just have absurd, bad or disgusting tastes, and for that reason they should be taken out back and beaten.

To each his own, It takes all kinds. You will find all kinds of different people in the world, many of whom will be strange or weird or have extreme opinions, but it is important to respect them anyway.

Making a mountain out of a mole hill. Take something minor and paint it as if it were extremely complex.

Hit the nail on the head, Right on the money. A person says or predicts something, that later comes true.

To say the truth, even if it hurts, to speak bluntly.

To make a comment to someone that can be directly related to them, for example, talk about how stupid bank robbers can be to someone that spent 4 years in jail for robbing a bank.

Speak of the devil. Comment made when someone that was just the topic of conversation shows up unexpectedly.

Describes a woman that gets around or is easy; AMA are the initials for the Metropolitan Bus Authority in spanish (Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses), the public bus system in Puerto Rico.

To be worked to death. To be overworked.

Dressed to the nines. A well-dressed person.

A difficult, stubborn person that no one can get through to.

Make a mountain out of a mole hill. Take a simple problem and turn it in to something complicated.

Things are getting ugly, Things are taking a turn for the worse, Things are getting out of hand. A given situation is becoming more serious.

When pigs fly, Not in a million years. Never, that chance is so remote it is impossible, forget it.

A dead-end job, there is no future in what the person is doing.

To be dreaming of unattainable things.

A taste of his own medicine, What comes around goes around. The same bad thing happens to someone, after he/she already made someone else experience it.

To be really, really lost. I guess cockroaches and chickens never socialize together.

Apparently cross-eyed crabs get lost regularly so if you’re more lost than the poor crab, you’re in big trouble. Lost refers not only to directions, but also in situations when a person does not follow the conversation or an idea.

Apparently someone did the research, and realized that monkey’s asses have no hair on them, so this phrase means to be completely bald.

A really thin person. The person is thinner than the cord pulled to advise the bus driver that you want to get off at the next stop.

To be dressed extremely gaudy, have too much makeup on, to wear large, ugly accessories.

Dressed to the nines. Describes someone that is extremely well dressed, everything coordinates perfectly.

Between a rock and a hard place. To be in a difficult, if not impossible, situation.

The person wants to be in charge of everything and will not give up responsibility for some things.

To be in jam. To be in a difficult situation. Also means to be financially strapped or drained.

To be stuffed or full, to over eat.