Exam Scorer. Idioms and Phrases

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2 Idioms and Phrases IDOMS / PHRASES MEANING To call it a day To conclude proceedings To put it up To tolerate To face the music To bear the consequences Yeoman s service Social work To take to hearts To grieve over To smell a rat To be suspicious To move heaven and heart To try something possible To take someone for a ride To decide (cheat) someone In cold blood Not intentional/excitedly A dump squid A disappointing result To bite the dust To be defected To take to one s heel To run away To be all at sea Lost and confused Cold comfort Slight satisfaction A bolt from the blue An unexpected and unpleasant event To feather one s nest To make oneself rich To die in harness To die while in service To show a clean pair of heels To escape / run away To flog a dead horse To waste one s efforts To strain every nerve To make utmost efforts Send packing To tell somebody firmly or rudely to go away / terminate service Kick up a row Make a great fuss/ to complain loudly about something Wet behind the ears Young and without experience To talk someone over To convince over Wear heart on sleeves Express emotions freely Bury the hatchet To make piece / to stop being unfriendly and become friends again Once in a blue moon Rarely Through thick and thin Under all circumstances Come to grief To suffer

3 Eat anyone s salt As hard as nail Allow a free hand Lays out Break down Cut coat according to one s cloth Smell the rat Let the grass grow under the feet Apple of discord A fish out of water In the long run Jumping out one s throat Out of wits Call spade a spade Face the music To play second fiddle Casting pearl before swine Putting the cart before the horse Not fit to hold candle Egg someone on For good Achilles s heel Take a leap in the dark Cut the guardian knot Blow one s own trumpet A cakewalk Not to look a gift horse in the mouth Man of straw Born with a silver spoon Let sleeping dogs lie To be anyone s guest Emotionless / to show no sympathy Complete liberty To spend money To lose control of your feelings and start crying/ could not proceed Live within your means Suspect that something is fishy Delay in getting things done Cause of animosity In uncomfortable situation Over a period of time To react very angrily to somebody Greatly confused To speak in a straight forward manner Accept the punishment Take a subordinate role Offering good things to undeserving people Doing things in the wrong way Not so good as somebody or something else To encourage somebody to do something Permanently Week spot To take risk Remove difficulty / to solve problem Self boasting An easy achievement Not to find fault with the gift received A man of no substance Born in a rich family Not to bring up and old controversial

4 A mouth of Sundays A closed book In apple pie order Thick and thin Wet one s whistle Bury the hatchet Live wire Donkey s year To make things done Chicken out Ice breaking Bad hats Give and take Off and on Man of straw Break down To cut one short Show the white flag A cut above To throw dust in one s eye Read between the lines Give went to Bring about Husband one s resource Foam at the mouth Keep wolf away from the door Pin money The Alpha and Omega Salt of the earth issue A long time A mystery In perfect order In spite of all difficulties To have a drink / moistens one s throat Make peace A person who is lively or energetic A long time To manage Withdraw/ to decide not to do something because you are afraid Starting a conversation People of bad character Adjustment / Willingness in relationship to accept what somebody else want and gives up some of what you want Irregularly A man of no substance Weep bitterly To criticize one To surrender Rather superior to To deceive To find the hidden message Express Cause to happen Save/ economical Angry Keep away extreme poverty Additional money Beginning and end Good, honest and ideal

5 Bring the house down Gerrymandering way Strain every nerve Hard and fast Turn up one s nose at Down in the dumps Dot one s I s and cross one T s Know the ropes Barking up the wrong tree In the swim Rub up the wrong way Add fuel to fire In the loop Hold one s horses Black out Cut and dry method Back to the drawing board In the air On the same page Pull no punch Going places Stand / hold your ground Put your feet down Read between the lines To the letter To carve out a niche Make the audience applaud enthusiastically In a manipulative and unfair way Make all efforts/ try all tricks That can t be altered / fixed To not accept something because you do not think it is good enough for you Sad and depressed Be detailed and exact Learn the procedures Trying to find someone at wrong place Well informed and up-to-date To irk or irritate someone Worsen the situation Informed regularly To keep waiting Lost consciousness Honest Plan it all over again Certain / able to be firmly relied on to happen or be the case Thinks in a similar way Speak frankly Talented and successful Refuse to yield/ to continue with your opinions when someone is opposing you Take a firm stand/ to be very strict in opposing what somebody wishes to do To understand the hidden meaning Paying attention to every detail or following exactly what somebody something says To work harder in order to have

6 Bury the hatched Null and void Break in Stir up a Hornet s nest Second thoughts Average out Go to the dogs Floored Give way Tall tales Backseat driver At random Break off Go haywire Above board Feather in one s cap Follow one s nose To latch onto Fight shy of Add fuel to the fire Snake in the grass Make a mountain of a mole hill Spill the beans Make amends for Leave high and dry Make believe Go for the jugular Keep a level head Under the weather At loggerheads Go Dutch successful career Make peace Not binding / having no legal force To train somebody in something To create a lot of trouble Reconsidering the original idea Balance Ruin / to go to in very bad situation To surprise or confuse Collapse Boasting A person who gives unwanted advice Without any aim or target Suddenly stop Become out of control Honest/ without any secret An achievement To go straight ahead To promote To avoid someone/ something Worsen the matter A hidden enemy Exaggerate a mirror problem Reveal the secret information Compensate the loss In a difficult situation without help or money/ leave alone to work To pretend that something is true To attack somebody s weaker point during a discussion To remain calm and sensible in a difficult situation Sick In strong disagreement Divide the cost

7 Alma mater A closefisted man As draft as a brush Risk with the lark At one s wit s end Make a beeline Wild goose chase A man of letters Horse sense Shot in the arm Catch time by the forelock Get on nerves Take a French leave Arm-chair critic A chip of the old block Feather your nest Throw up cards Vote with your feet Dog in a manger Chapter and verse Bring down the house Give a wide breath to A hard nut to crack In black and white Beside the mark To give a piece of mind Give away Fight tooth and nail Show a clean a pair of heels All moonshine Institution where one got education A miser Very silly Get up early in the morning To be so worried by a problem that you don t know what to do next Rush/ to go straight towards something as quick as you can Unless search A literary person Basic common sense Something that gives encouragement Seize opportunity Annoying Being absent without permission A person who give advise based on theory not on practice An experienced old man To make yourself richer, especially by spending money on yourself that should be spend on something else To give in/ to blow away the plan Showing your disapproval A selfish person Providing minutes details To make everyone cheer To stay away from or avoid someone A difficult problem to solve In writing Irrelevant / not to be accurate Scolding someone To distribute something Fight with all strengths To run away fast / to flee swiftly Concocted / superficial

8 Up to the mark A red letter day Cat-nap To pull a long face Fit like a glove Caught red-handed Gate crasher To angle For all intents and purposes Go out of one s way In the running Beat about the bush Make room Mend your way s Beggar description Drag one s feet Hope against hope For keeps Paled into insignificance With one voice Make it light Every inch a gentleman A rough, violent, troublesome person To add fuel to the fire To take to heart To bring to light All moon shine At a snail s pace Call on Pros and cons Once in a blue moon Fish out of water Be down with According to the required standard An important day Short sleep Look sad Perfectly Discovered in the act of doing Uninvited guest To fish Practically Do everything possible Has good prospects in competition To say everything except the main topic Make space Improve one s behaviour Cannot be described Be reluctant to act Nurture an impossible hope Forever Seemed less important Unanimously Treat lightly Entirely Tarter Make thing worse To be greatly affected To revel Far from reality Slowly Pay a visit Advantages and disadvantage Very rarely An uncomfortable position Suffering from

9 Fair-weather friend Pull together To bury the hatched Selling like hot cakes Scot free To give oneself airs At a stone s throw Bone of contention To eat humble pie To end in smoke To spill the beans Drive home A left hand compliment Cut a sorry figure To take to task Bad blood Maiden speech To get cold feet Beside the mark On tenterhooks A cuckoo in the nest A horse of cards To smell a rat Old head on young shoulder A wild-goose chase Hard on hearing Burn your boats Dressing-down Null and void A dark horse Throw cold water Supports only when easy and convenient Work harmoniously To make peace To have a very good sale Unpunished Behave arrogantly At short distance Matter of dispute To yield under humiliating circumstances To fail/ to end without any practical result To reveal a secret Emphasise An ambiguous compliment Make a poor impression Reprimand Enmity First speech Fear Not to the point In suspense and anxiety An unwelcomed intruder An insecure scheme To suspect foul dealing To be wise beyond one s age Pointless search To be deaf Do something that makes it impossible to return to the previous situation To give scolding Invalid Unexpected winner Discourage

10 Butt in Couch potato Carry the ball Turn down Catch a tarter Cap in hand In the blues Cheek by jowl Beyond the pale Blow one s own trumpet Stick to guns At sea Straw in the wind Face the music Curry favours Weal and woe Call in question Make both ends mean Put up the shutters A drop in a bucket Draw a blank To be in a fix As draft as a brush In a nutshell In a nutshell Stain every nerve Evening of life Button one s lips Cock and bull stories A live wire Capital punishment Leaps and bounds Wet behind the ears Interrupt A person who prefers to watch television Be in charge Reject To deal with a person who is more than one s match In a respectful manner Cheerless and depressed Very close together Unreasonable or unacceptable Praise oneself Maintain own opinion At a loss An indication of what might happen Be punished Seek favourable attention Good times and bad times Challenge Live within means Go out of business A very insignificant amount Find no favour In a difficult situation Extremely silly Briefly and concisely Briefly and concisely Work very hard Old age Stop talking Absurd and unlikely stories Lively and active Death sentence Rapidly Young and without much experience

11 Under a cloud Get the sack Feather in one s cap A man of letters Bear in mind To put a spoke in the one s wheel To clip one s wings To nip in the bud Hold up To play fast and loose Feather one s own nest Pull a fast one Grease the palm Turn-turtle Under suspicious Be dismissed A new and additional way Scholar Remember To hinder To deprive one of power To stop something in the starting Delay To act in an unreliable way Make money in an improper way Play a trick To bribe Complete over-turn of a situation

An Idiom a Day Will Help Keep the Boredom In Schooling Away #1. What are idioms?

An Idiom a Day Will Help Keep the Boredom In Schooling Away #1 What are idioms? Dictionary A- noun- form of expression peculiar to one language; dialect Dictionary B- noun- A form of expression whose understood