Reacting in situations: more or less opposite idioms: 1) To take a back seat (not to do anything; let others act instead) # To take the bull by the horns (act positively to face and attack the problem) 2) To stir things up (do/say things that make the situation worse) # To pour oil on troubled waters (do/say things that calm the situation down) 3) To keep ones cards close to ones chest (hold back information) # To lay ones cards on the table (be very open, state exactly what your position is) - Michael McCarthy & Felicity ODell: English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2001
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