Idioms for daily use (T)

Take to your heels
If you take to your heels, you run away.
 

Take up the torch
If you take up the torch, you take on a challenge or responsibility, usually when
someone else retires, or leaves an organisation, etc.
 

Take your breath away
If something takes your breath away, it astonishes or surprises you.
 

Take your eye off the ball
If someone takes their eye off the ball, they don't concentrate on something
important that they should be looking at.
 

Take your hat off
If you say that you take your hat off to someone, you are showing your respect
or admiration.
 

Take your hat off to somebody
If you take your hat off to someone, you acknowledge that they have done
something exceptional or otherwise deserve your respect.
 

Taken as read
If something can be taken as read, it is so definite that it's not necessary to talk
about it.
 

Tale of the tape
This idiom is used when comparing things, especially in sports; it comes from
boxing where the fighters would be measured with a tape measure before a fight.
 

Talk a blue streak
(USA) If someone talks a blue streak, they speak quickly and at length. ('Talk up
a blue streak' is also used.)
 

Talk a glass eye to sleep
Someone who could talk a glass eye to sleep is very boring and repetitive.
 

Talk is cheap
It's easy to talk about something but harder to actually do it.
 

Talk nineteen to the dozen
If someone talks very quickly, they talk nineteen to the dozen.
 

Talk of the town
When everybody is talking about particular people and events, they are he talk of
the town.
 

Talk out of the back of your head
If someone is talking out of the back of their head, they are talking rubbish.
 

Talk out of your hat
If someone is talking out of their hat, they're talking utter rubbish, especially if
compounded with total ignorance of the subject on which they are pontificating.
('Talk through your hat' is also used.)
 

Talk shop
If you talk shop, you talk about work matters, especially if you do this outside
work