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1) Third time lucky.
Third time lucky is used when someone has failed twice to do something- it is used for good luck to encourage them.
2) Keep a straight face.
If you keep a straight face, look serious and do not laugh even though you want to.
3) Ears are burning.
If your ears are burning, you sense or know that people somewhere else are talking about you in an unpleasant way.
4) Open the floodgates.
If you open the floodgates, you make something possible to happen that had been difficult, illegal or impossible.
5) Off like a shot.
If someone is off like a shot, they leave or get going very quickly indeed.
6) Critical mass.
The minimum amount of resources or number of people needed to start and/or sustain a business, project or event.
The first 5 i posted i have heard in Pashto too.
Third time lucky is used when someone has failed twice to do something- it is used for good luck to encourage them.
2) Keep a straight face.
If you keep a straight face, look serious and do not laugh even though you want to.
3) Ears are burning.
If your ears are burning, you sense or know that people somewhere else are talking about you in an unpleasant way.
4) Open the floodgates.
If you open the floodgates, you make something possible to happen that had been difficult, illegal or impossible.
5) Off like a shot.
If someone is off like a shot, they leave or get going very quickly indeed.
6) Critical mass.
The minimum amount of resources or number of people needed to start and/or sustain a business, project or event.
The first 5 i posted i have heard in Pashto too.