Expressões com a palavra FLIRT

English students usually get in contact with the word flirt very early. That's because not only is flirt a very basic word, but also a very common practice among people. Do you know what flirt means? In a very technical way of putting it, flirt means to tease or trifle with someone alluringly. You go out with your friends and spot a really fine woman sitting at a bar. You approach her and start flirting with her. That means maybe you make a pass at her [dar uma cantada], buy her a drink, tell her nice things so she'll trust you more. There are actually many ways of making people think you're attracted to them. It goes by your personality and the way you deal with the opposite sex. But there's something more to the word flirt that I'd like to share with you guys. It's an expression I found very interesting: to flirt with the idea of doing something.

So imagine you've been stuck in this dead-end job for a lot of time and now you're kind of thinking of quitting it. The problem is that although your job doesn't give you much joy, you don't have a lot of perspective towards any other direction; plus you need a job to pay your bills. So you keep getting up every morning to go to work, but always flirting with the idea of quitting it. But wait, what does that mean? Well, when you flirt with an idea, you consider it briefly but not too seriously. The reason differs depending on the situation. In your case, it's not that you don't want to quit your job badly enough, you just don't know what to do once you quit it. Maybe one day, when you figure out a way to get a job you really like, you'll stop only flirting with the idea and take real measures. Have you been flirting with any idea lately? Many English students flirt with the idea of going on a trip abroad. What about you?