Idioms

To chat in a leisurely, friendly way about nothing in particular, often at length and simply to pass the time.

The entire collection of people or things in question, with nothing whatever left out; absolutely everything, taken together.

An excellent, stylish or thoroughly admirable person or thing; the very best of its kind, worthy of enthusiastic praise.

A person or thing that looks so exactly like another that the two are easily mistaken for one.

A state of intense, almost dizzying happiness, as if lifted above ordinary life by joy, excitement or elation.

Entirely satisfactory, fine and going well, with everything in good order and no cause whatsoever for worry or complaint.

The entire thing, every part of some matter, arrangement or situation considered together as one complete and undivided whole.

To die, used as a light, faintly comic euphemism that avoids the bluntness of saying someone has simply died.

Something or someone regarded as outstanding, the height of excellence, in a playful, informal register that dates from 1920s slang.

The genuine article rather than an inferior imitation, used to affirm that a person or thing is authentic and not counterfeit.