CSS idioms 2012...with some others

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Idioms
In the zone (very focused, increased focus and attention, to put your full attention in sth)
You must be in the zone while doing your work.
You are always in the zone when you are doing sth with your heart.
Don’t try to disturb me, I am in the zone.
It’s very difficult to be in the zone when you are doing a couple of things at the same time.
Walk through (rehearsal, a through demonstration/explanation, practice slowly)
She gave me a walk-through of my duties.
At our first rehearsal we walked through the first act of the play.
Walking on eggshells (to walk very carefully, being careful with what you are saying, to be very careful with someone because they get upset easily, to be in a delicate situation, to be very diplomatic and inoffensive)
You always need to walk on eggshells when talking to her.
I was walking on eggshells trying to explain the remark to her without offending her further.

CSS-2012
Wool gathering (to engage in fanciful daydreaming, not concentrating on your work, indulge in a fantasy, absent minded)
The professors talk was really boring, I found myself wool gathering.
Cold comfort (extremely limited sympathy/encouragement)
The good news about the economy is cold comfort to people who have lost their jobs.
The drop in the unemployment figures is cold comfort to those still looking for work.
Walk with God (to teach and live according to the doctrine of faith, to live in obedience to his commands, go in the ways of God)
Is an Apostle is one who walks with God?
A queer fish (a strange person who does odd things)
She is a queer fish, her ways are quite strange.
I knew his father and he was a queer fish too.
Under the harrow (subjected to great affliction)
He has been kept under the harrow.
A gold digger (a woman who has relationships with rich men so that they will give her money, a woman who dates other people only because they are rich, so that they can get money from them)
Martin’s friends tried to warn him that his girlfriend was a gold digger, because she was always asking them how much money he had.
Nora is only interested in Mr Higgins money. She’s a gold digger.
To be a gold digger (to be someone who uses other people for their money)
Mya is such a gold digger. She doesn’t have a job but she spends time with millionaires at the fancy bars (very nice/upscale).
On the thin ice (in a risky situation, in danger)
His grades are very low in this course. He is on thin ice.
You are walking on thin ice. You should be careful! (What you are doing is risky).
My mother might have guessed that she was on thin ice there.
Unearthly hour (unreasonable, strange, absurd)
They arranged to meet the unearthly hour of six in the morning.