Idoms and phrases



✎: To take French leave
 ☛Leave without any intimation

✎: A hard nut to crack
☛ A difficult problem

✎:On shank’s mare
☛On foot

✎:A snake in the grass
☛A secret enemy

✎:Spill the beans
☛Give away a secret

✎:Blow one’s own trumpet
☛Praise oneself

✎:Dead heat
☛Close contest that ends in a tie

✎:Back to square one
☛Come to the original point

✎:To throw a fit
☛ Express extreme anger

✎:The bee’s knees
 ☛Extraordinary

✎:Hold water
☛To be valid

✎:Bring to light
☛ Reveal clearly

✎:A bed of roses
☛ An easy and happy situation

✎:A close-fisted person
☛A miserly person

✎:To flog a dead horse
☛To waste the efforts

✎:To take the bull by the horns
 ☛To handle difficulties

✎:To add fuel to the fire.
☛To make a bad situation worse

✎:Hobson’s Choice
☛ An apparently free choice where there is no real alternative

✎:Chicken-hearted
☛Cowardly

✎:By and by
☛Gradually

✎:See eye to eye
☛Agree with someone

✎:Pull a fast one
☛Trick someone

✎:Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
☛Dejected

✎:To paddle one’s own canoe
☛Depend on oneself

✎:Look down upon
☛To consider someone inferior

✎:Keep abreast of
 ☛Keep oneself updated

✎:Give a piece of one’s mind
☛To rebuke someone strongly

✎:Come to the point
☛To speak plainly about the real issue

✎:The people were scared because the burglar was “at large”.
☛not caught

✎:Cut and dried
☛Already decided

✎:Make off with
☛To run away

✎:Kill two birds with one stone
☛To achieve two results with a single effort

✎:The acid test
☛A fact, event or situation that proves something

✎:Blind alley
☛ A situation in which no further progress can be made

✎:To take a back seat
☛To become less important or to give up control over things

✎:To bark up the wrong tree
☛To do something that will not get the result you want

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