{"id":71917,"date":"2019-08-30T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71917"},"modified":"2019-08-30T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:34:00","slug":"get-foot-in-the-door-go-dutch-goose-bumps-common-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/get-foot-in-the-door-go-dutch-goose-bumps-common-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Foot In The Door, Go Dutch, Goose Bumps | Common English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Get foot in the door<\/h3>\n<p>To get your foot in the door is to start working in a company at a low level hoping that you will be able to reach higher positions from there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although it was not a great position, I decided to accept it. At least it would help me get my foot in the door.<\/li>\n<li>These days I am finding it difficult to get my foot in the door. I don\u2019t even get a job interview.<\/li>\n<li>I think you should accept that offer. It is an opportunity to get your foot in the door.<\/li>\n<li>I think you should do internship for them. It will help you get your foot in the door.<\/li>\n<li>In these troubled economic times it is hard to get your foot in the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Get under one&#8217;s skin<\/h3>\n<p>To get under somebody\u2019s skin is to annoy or bother him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My landlady is very annoying. She always gets under my skin.<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t stand my new boss. He keeps getting under my skin.<\/li>\n<li>That loud music is getting under my skin.<\/li>\n<li>My kid brother is very messy. He is starting to get under my skin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Go Dutch<\/h3>\n<p>When you go Dutch, you pay your own expenses on a date or outing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018No, you don\u2019t have to pay for my drinks. We\u2019ll go Dutch.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I expected him to pay for me, but he didn\u2019t. Actually, we had to go Dutch on the whole date.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I was willing to pay for her but she insisted that we go Dutch.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Whenever I go out with my friends, I always insist on going Dutch. I don\u2019t want anyone to pay for me\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other idioms with Dutch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Dutch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you are in Dutch you are in trouble.<\/p>\n<h3>Goose bumps<\/h3>\n<p>You get or have goose bumps when you are very excited, cold or scared.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I get goose bumps whenever I am scared.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody gets goose bumps when they are cold.<\/li>\n<li>I was so inspired by the story that I got goose bumps all over my body.<\/li>\n<li>I had goose bumps when our cricket team won the World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>That film was so scary. I couldn\u2019t help getting goose bumps the whole time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phrases that express similar ideas are: jolt of excitement, tingling sensation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I felt a jolt of excitement when our team won the World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>I had a tingling sensation run across my body when I heard the good news.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get foot in the door To get your foot in the door is to start working in a company at a low level hoping that you will be able to reach higher positions from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[393,1031,1033,1032,1030],"class_list":["post-71917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-idioms","tag-get-foot-in-the-door","tag-get-under-ones-skin","tag-go-dutch","tag-goose-bumps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71918,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71917\/revisions\/71918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}