Exercise – 16

🔹 A shoulder to cry on
🔸 Meaning: Someone who supports you in tough times
✅ When his heart broke, Riya was a shoulder to cry on.
✅ A true friend is someone who gives you a shoulder to cry on.

🔹 Thick as thieves
🔸 Meaning: Very close friends / inseparable
✅ They’ve been thick as thieves since childhood.
✅ Looking at us, you’d think we’re thick as thieves.

🔹 Build bridges
🔸 Meaning: Improve relationships / reduce distance
✅ They built bridges and started their friendship anew.
✅ It’s time to build bridges.

🔹 Bury the hatchet
🔸 Meaning: End a fight / reconcile
✅ After years of rivalry, they buried the hatchet.
✅ Friendship can’t survive unless you bury the hatchet.

🔹 Through thick and thin
🔸 Meaning: Stand by someone in every situation
✅ That friend stayed with me through thick and thin.
✅ A true friend is someone who stands by you through thick and thin.

🔹 Have someone’s back
🔸 Meaning: Support someone / stand with them
✅ No matter what, I’ve got your back.
✅ He knew his friend would have his back.

🔹 On the same wavelength
🔸 Meaning: Think alike / understand each other well
✅ We’re on the same wavelength — we don’t even need words.
✅ Friendship forms when two people are on the same wavelength.

🔹 Break the trust
🔸 Meaning: Betray someone’s confidence
✅ He broke my trust by lying.
✅ When trust is broken, the relationship doesn’t survive.

🔹 Lend a hand
🔸 Meaning: Help someone
✅ My friend lent a hand when I was in trouble.
✅ Good friends are the ones who lend a hand without being asked.

🔹 Hit it off
🔸 Meaning: Become friends immediately
✅ We hit it off the first time we met.
✅ Some people hit it off as if they’ve known each other for years.