The idioms that we study in this programme are: to spend money like it's going out of fashion; to follow the crowd; to give sby a second chance; to be worth your while [to do sth]; to bore sby to tears; to pin your hopes on sby / sth; to have too much time on your hands; against all [the] odds; on your own; It's your own time you're wasting, not mine! (Note: sby = somebody, and sth = something.) Level: pre-intermediate - intermediate. Matt Purland runs the popular English language resource website http://www.englishbanana.com/ He is the author of the Talk a Lot Free Spoken English course, which is a free download available from http://www.englishbanana.com/talkalot/ Material discussed during this lesson (.pdf): http://www.englishbanana.com/problems-20-common-english-idioms.pdf Want to join Matt online for his next free English lesson on WIZIQ? Just visit: http://www.wiziq.com/mattpurland/ to register for free!