Idioms List with Alphabet C, D, and E

Idioms with Alphabets C, D, and E

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Idioms/Phrases	Meaning
Call a spade a spade	Be outspoken in language
Call at	Visit
Call down	Request for
Call for	Demand for
Call in questions	Challenges
Call one’s shots	Make intention clear
Call over	Recite in order
Call to	Address loudly
Call up	Recollect
Called name	Abuse
Called off	Divert attention
Called on	Paid a brief visit
Called out	challenge to fight
Can't Cut The Mustard :	Someone who isn't adequate enough to compete or participate.
Carried off	Killed
Carrot and stick	Reward and punishment
Carry off	Win
Carry off of the feet	Wild with excitement
Cast down	Depressed
Cast Iron Stomach:	Someone who has no problems, complications or ill effects with eating anything or drinking anything.
Casting aspersions	Passing slanderous remarks
Cat in hell’s chance	No chance at all
Catch 22	Absurd , a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting of dependent conditions
Catch up	Overtake
Cave in	Yield
Charley Horse:	Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp.
Cheek by jowl	Close together
Chew someone out:	Verbally scold someone.
Chewing the cuds	To muse on, to chat , in an aimless manner
Chip of the old block	Resembling one’s parents in habits
Chip on his Shoulder:	Angry today about something that occurred in the past.
Chow Down:	To eat.
Cine round	Recover
Clean breast	Confessed without reserve
Clinched the issue	Decided
Clock and dagger	Like a spy
Close but no Cigar:	To be very near and almost accomplish a goal, but fall short.
Close with	Accept
Closed with	Denied
Cloven off	The evil intention
Cock a snook	To show impudent contempt
Cock and Bull Story:	An unbelievable tale.
Cocksure	Perfectly confident
Cog in the wheel	An important person
Cold blood	Unfeelingly
Come a cropper	To fail
Come about	Happen
Come across	Meet accidently
Come at	Get within reach
Come by	Acquire
Come cap in the hand	Very humble
Come down	Descend
Come down from ivory towers	Detachment and seclusion
Come Hell Or High Water:	Any difficult situation or obstacle.
Come in for	Get, obtain
Come off	Take place
Come round	Agreed,recover
Come to	Amount to, arrived at
Come to a head	To reach a crisis
Come to a pass	Difficult situation
Come to the crunch	Decisive movement
Come up with	Overtake
Cool as cucumber	Calm and composed
Crack Someone Up:	To make someone laugh.
Cried up	Extolled /praised
Cross Your Fingers:	To hope that something happens the way you want it to.
Cry down	Depreciate
Cry Over Spilt Milk:	When you complain about a loss from the past.
Cry Wolf:	Intentionally raise a false alarm.
Cup Of Joe:	A cup of coffee.
Curiosity Killed The Cat:	Being Inquisitive can lead you into a dangerous situation.
Cushy job	Financial comfortable job
Cut and dried	Settled , decided
Cut corners	Simplify the producers
Cut into	Interfere
Cut no ice	To make no effect
Cut no ice with me	Had no influence with me
Cut out	Suitable
Cut out	Suitable
Cut someone dead	To ignore someone totally
Cut the Gordian knot	To perform the difficult task
Cut through	Though
Cut to quick	Hurt intensely
Cut to the Chase:	Leave out all the unnecessary details and just get to the point.
Cuts both ends	Argument in support of both sides of the issue
Damocles’ sword	An impending danger
Damp squib	An utter failure
Damp squib	Complete failure
Dance attendance upon	To Flatter
Dare devil	Fearless person
Dark Horse:	One who was previously unknown and is now prominent.
Dashed off	Wrote
Days of reckoning	Time to answer for someone’s answer
De, jure	Rightful , legal
Dead Ringer:	100% identical. A duplicate.
Design on	To have plans to exploit or somehow take of someone advantage or something
Devil’s advocate	On who is against the religion
Devil's Advocate:	Someone who takes a position for the sake of argument without believing in that particular side of the arguement. It can also mean one who presents a counter argument for a position they do believe in, to another debater.
Die away	Become gradually fainter till inaudible
Die hard	Persistent in struggle
Die in harness	Die while still working
Die off	Die one by one
Die out	Disappear
Dispose of	Sell, finish
Do a good turn by	Do a favour
Do away with	Abolish, get rid of , eliminate
Do something in	Kill
Dob away with	Abolish
Dog Days of Summer:	The hottest days of the summer season.
Dog in the manager	A person who prevent s others from enjoying what he cannot
Done for	Ruined
Donkey’s year	After a long time
Don't count your chickens before they hatch:	Don't rely on it until your sure of it.
Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth:	When someone gives you a gift, don't be ungrateful.
Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket:	Do not put all your resources in one possibility.
Doozy:	Something outstanding.
Double dealing	Deception
Down and out	Poor and ruined
Down in the mouth	out of elements
Down To The Wire:	Something that ends at the last minute or last few seconds.
Draconian law	Extremely serve law
Drag on	Progress very slowly
Drag up	Educate , train , etc, very badly
Drastic Times Call For Drastic Measures:	When you are extremely desperate you need to take extremely desperate actions.
Draw away	Spend time in a lazy way
Draw down	Attract
Draw in	Pull inside
Draw in	Become shorter
Draw off	Divert
Draw the long bone	Exaggerate
Draw up	Drafted
Drawn off	To withdraw
Drink like a fish:	To drink very heavily.
Drink to	Wish somebody/something good luck , success or happiness , by raising your glass and then drinking
Drive someone up the wall:	To irritate and/or annoy very much.
Dropping Like Flies:	A large number of people either falling ill or dying.
Dry Run:	Rehearsal.
Dutch courage	Bravery under alcoholic influence
Dwell in	Think, talk or write about something for too long
Eaten away	Corroded
Egg is egg	Quite certainly
Egged on	Instigate
Eighty Six:	A certain item is no longer available. Or this idiom can also mean, to throw away.
Eke out	Supplement income
Elbow grease	Hard work
Elbow room	Room on opportunity to move and act freely
Elvis has left the building:	The show has come to an end. It's all over.
End in smoke	To give no practical result
Enter into	Start, open, begin to discuss or deal with some thing or sympathize with
Ere long	Shortly
Esprit de corps	Unity
Ethnic Cleansing:	Killing of a certain ethnic or religious group on a massive scale.
Ever and anon	Now and then , sometimes
Ever and anon	Frequently
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining:	Be optimistic, even difficult times will lead to better days.
Every lecture’s cup of tea	What one likes and can do well
everyman jack	Everyone without exception
Everything But The Kitchen Sink:	Almost everything and anything has been included.
Excuse my French:	Please forgive me for cussing.
Explain away	Show why one should not be blamed for a fault , mistake etc.
Extinct and obsolete	As dead as a dodo

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