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•Chase rainbows/a rainbow (idiom) -

To pursue some goal or accomplishment that is utterly unrealistic or unlikely to happen.(做白日梦,异想天开)

Examples:  

1.You can't chase rainbows your whole life - you need to pick a stable career and start being an adult.

2.It feels like the government is chasing a rainbow in its efforts to overhaul the tax legislation.

•Stop at nothing (idiom) -

Used to say that someone will do anything to achieve a goal or purpose, even if it is very bad.(不择手段,无所不用其极)

Examples:  

1.They will stop at nothing to get him elected.  

2."I assure you, ma'am, we will stop at nothing to catch that thief," the police officer said.

•Barefaced (adverb) –

Not show any shame about, or does not try to hide, bad behaviour. (露骨的,厚颜无耻的)

Examples:  

1.How does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth?

2.This is one of the most barefaced acts of historical rewriting ever.

•Throw one's weight about/around (idiom) -

If someone throws their weight around/about, they act aggressively and use their power over other people more than they need to.(耀武扬威,专横跋扈)

Examples:  

1.The boss came in, yelling and generally throwing his weight about.  

2.The PE teacher was a tyrant who threw his weight around when it came to punishing his students.

•Make an issue (out) of sth (idiom) -

To argue about something or insist that something be treated as an important problem even it is not.(拿…说事,拿…做文章)

Examples:  

1.There's nothing wrong with your hair, so stop making an issue out of it.

2.I knew they'd made a mistake, but I was too tired to make an issue of it.

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