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English phrases for storytelling

18 phrases from the lesson “Telling a Good Story”.

• once in a blue moonvery rarely
• the last strawthe final problem in a series that makes someone lose patience
• jump to conclusionsto decide something is true without enough information
• blow something out of proportionto make something seem much more serious than it really is
• a happy endinga good, satisfying conclusion to a story
• a turning pointa moment when something important changes
• laugh it offto treat something as unimportant by laughing about it
• live and learnused to accept a mistake and the lesson learned from it
• all's well that ends wellused to say a difficult situation is fine because it ended well
• against all oddsdespite there being very little chance of success
• a storm in a teacupa situation that's made to seem far more serious or dramatic than it actually is
• make a mountain out of a molehillto treat a small problem as if it were much bigger than it really is
• live to tell the taleto survive a difficult or dangerous experience, often said humorously
• the icing on the cakean extra good thing that makes an already good situation even better
• a blessing in disguisesomething that seems bad or unlucky at first, but turns out to be good
• every cloud has a silver liningeven difficult situations have some positive side to them
• the plot thickensused to say a situation is becoming more complicated or mysterious
• the rest is historyused to say what happened after a certain point is already well known