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proceed calmly and in a relaxed manner.

If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will SLEEP ON IT, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.

sharp means exactly at that time. So don't come at five past ten (maybe we will have left by then!). In the second sentence the person said she was going to ring at nine am on the dot.

If something happens once in a while, it happens sometimes, but not very often.

1. to be very familiar with something, especially a place or way of going somewhere. She knows these streets like the back of her hand.

You use the expression 'Keep Your Chin Up' to encourage someone not to give up or. give in, and to remain cheerful despite a difficult situation. Example of use: “Keep your chin up! Things will get better soon.”

At the last moment, as in The police arrived in the nick of time, or He got there just in time for dinner. The first term began life as in the nick and dates from the 1500s, when nick meant “the critical moment” (a meaning now obsolete)

If a person or company is in the red or if their bank account is in the red, they have spent more money than they have in their account and therefore they owe money to the bank.

hit the hay/sack. to go to bed in order to sleep: I have a busy day tomorrow, so I think I'll hit the sack.