Exercise – 9

🔹 Through thick and thin
🔸 Meaning: To stay together in all situations

✅ A true friend stays with you through thick and thin.
✅ We’ve supported each other through thick and thin.

🔹 A shoulder to cry on
🔸 Meaning: A trusted person to share your sorrow

✅ She was a shoulder to cry on when I lost my job.
✅ Everyone needs a shoulder to cry on sometimes.

🔹 Hit it off
🔸 Meaning: To get along immediately / bond well

✅ We hit it off the first time we met.
✅ The two kids hit it off instantly at the park.

🔹 Birds of a feather flock together
🔸 Meaning: Similar people tend to stay together

✅ Creative people are like birds of a feather — they flock together.
✅ Those two are always together — birds of a feather!

🔹 See eye to eye
🔸 Meaning: To fully agree / share the same view

✅ We don’t always see eye to eye, but we respect each other.
✅ Good friends usually see eye to eye on important matters.

🔹 Thick as thieves
🔸 Meaning: Very close friends / inseparable

✅ Those two have been thick as thieves since childhood.
✅ Me and my cousin are thick as thieves.

🔹 Bury the hatchet
🔸 Meaning: To reconcile after a conflict

✅ After years of conflict, they finally buried the hatchet.
✅ It’s time to bury the hatchet and move on.

🔹 Fair-weather friend
🔸 Meaning: Someone who is only there in good times

✅ A fair-weather friend won’t be there when times are tough.
✅ You need real friends, not fair-weather ones.

🔹 Lend a hand
🔸 Meaning: To help / assist

✅ A true friend will always lend a hand when you need it.
✅ He lent a hand with my packing.

🔹 Build bridges
🔸 Meaning: To improve relationships / create understanding

✅ Good friends know how to build bridges, not walls.
✅ We’re trying to build bridges after the argument.