IELTS slangs
All-nighter
Studying without sleep (usually a last-minute course of action)
Someone who isn't very smart
Airhead
To be nervous or jumpy; to be unable to sit still?
Ants in your pant
Armpit
An unpleasant or backwards place; an undesirable city or area.
At the end of your rope
To be out of options or alternative courses of action; to be stuck in a bad situation
Average Joe
Someone who is just like everyone else; a normal person.
Not an urgent priority
Backburner
Someone who gives unwanted advice; someone who tries to run things even though they don't have the power or authority to do so.
Back seat driver
To begin again; to repeat a process, often after a major setback
Back to the drawing board
To say negative things about someone or something.
Bad mouth
I think Mary Jane was pretty baked last night - her eyes were bright red, and she sat in front of the television for six hours straight without moving.
Intoxicated, especially after smoking marijuana; in a dazed state, resulting from drug consumption.
After his wife left him, Paul was a real basket case
Crazy; hopelessly broken down
My brother Charlie tried to rob a bank, but the cops caught him and now he's behind bars.
In prison or jail; incarcerated
After losing my job, I was so depressed that I went on a three day bender.
An episode of heavy drinking; a period of any kind of unusually intense behavior
A 'house' is where people live, and a prison is quite large 9 or 'big'), home to hundreds of criminals. This phrase became popular in the early 1900's, when organized crime and large scale prisons developed in the United States
Big house