Idioms/ Phrases |
Meaning |
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Take after |
Resembles |
Take away |
Remove |
Take down |
Record |
Take for |
Misunderstand |
Take heart |
Cheered up |
Take in |
Admit |
Take it ill |
Too be offended |
Take people inn |
Cheat people |
Take time by the forelock |
Prepare action before time |
Take up the cudgels |
To support somebody |
Take up the cudgels for |
Defend vigorously |
Take up with |
Be friendly with |
Take wind out of another’s sails |
To gain advantage by anticipation |
Taken aback |
Surprised |
Taken in |
Deceived |
Taken to |
Resorted to |
Taken with |
Pleased with |
Tarred with same brush |
Posses the same defects |
The alpha and the omega |
The beginning and the end |
The Ball Is In Your Court: |
It is your decision this time. |
The Best Of Both Worlds: |
There are two choices and you have them both. |
The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall: |
While the bigger and stronger opponent might be alot more difficult to beat, when you do they suffer a much bigger loss. |
The bill of fare |
The menu |
The cock of the walk |
The most dominant person in a group |
The cut of one’s jib |
A person’s personal appearances or manner |
The devils own luck |
Good luck |
The fat end |
The last part |
The flesh |
Physical or bodily desires , sensual appetites |
The heels of Achilles |
The weak point in a person |
The king of terror |
Death |
The last straw |
An addition to a task, burden, etc. Which strained one’s patience to the limit |
The lie of the land |
Assessment of a situation |
The mote in somebody’s eye |
A very minor mistake (of somebody) |
The primrose path |
The pursuit of pleasure |
The quick and dead |
All people alive or dead |
The thin end of the wedge |
The beginning of further concessions |
The tip of the iceberg |
Small but evident part of a much larger concealed situation |
The Whole Nine Yards: |
Everything. All of it. |
The worse for wear |
Shabby from use |
Third times a charm: |
After no success the first two times, the third try is a lucky one. |
Through thick and thin |
Under any circumstances |
Throw a spanner |
To be defeated |
Throw down the gauntlet |
Challenge someone, Behaved as very great and important person |
Thrust down one’s throat |
Remind repeatedly |
Tie the knot: |
To get married. |
Till the cows come home |
For a long time |
Tiptoe |
Anxious |
To a hair |
Exactly |
To accept the gauntlet |
To suffer humiliation |
To and fro |
Backwards and forwards |
To back side |
To fall back in morals |
To back spear |
To question in order to bring out some information |
To be all legs |
To be a tall and very thin person |
To be at daggers drawn |
To be bitter enemy |
To be at one’s beds |
To worship |
To be at one’s finger’s end |
To be completely conversant with |
To be at the end of one’s tether |
To have no resources left |
To be in abeyance |
In suspense |
To be in the black(Of one’s money) |
To be in credit |
To be in the picture |
To be familiar with the matter |
To be lost in the cloud |
To be perplexed |
To be nobody’s fool |
To be wise |
To be par for the course |
To be what one would expect to happen or expect somebody to do |
To be the dead spit of |
Exact counterpart or likeness of |
To be up and doing |
To be actively engaged |
To be up before somebody |
To appear in court |
To bear a grudge |
To have a better felling |
To bear away the palm |
To win |
To bear the palm |
To win |
To bear up with |
To endure |
To beat a retreat |
To march back after a ceremonious parade |
To beat hollow |
To defeat completely |
To beggars’ description |
Beyond one’s power to describe adequately |
To bid fair |
To seem likely |
To bill and coo |
To whisper endearments as lovers |
To black ball |
Prevent from doing something |
To blaze trail |
To initiate work in a movement |
To blow hot and clod |
To be inconsistent |
To blow the gaff |
To revel a secret |
To borrow beat |
To bully |
To brace oneself for |
To prepare for something unpleasant or difficult |
To break the duck |
To begin |
To bring one’s egg to a bad market |
To fail in one’s plan because one goes to the wrong people for help |
To bury one’s head in the sand |
To avoid the reality |
To care a damn/farthing |
To have no care at all |
To carry off the bell |
To bag the first position |
to carry off the palm |
To be victorious |
To carry the can |
Accept the blame |
To carry the coal to Newcastle |
To do unnecessary things |
To carry with one |
To satisfy |
To cast a chill over |
To spread sadness |
To cast into the shade |
To make less noticeable |
To cast the pearl before a swine |
To offer someone a thing which he cannot appreciate |
To catch a tartar |
To deal with someone or something that proves unexpectedly troublesome or powerful |
To catch somebody on the hop to |
To catch somebody of guard |
To catch/clutch at a straw |
To try any expedient however useless |
To champ at the bit |
To be restlessly impatient |
To change the colour |
To shift the allegations to |
To chew the fat |
To chat |
To come of age |
To be major |
To condemn to death |
To award punishment of death |
To cook one’s goose |
To ruin one’s chances or plans completely |
To cool one’s heels |
To be kept watching for sometime |
To cross one’s mind |
To occur , strike |
To cry Halves |
To claim with equal share |
To cry over a spilt milk |
To reach a crisis |
To cry shame upon |
To oppose, to protest against |
To cry stinking fish |
To decry one’s own good |
To cry wolf |
To raise a false alarm |
To curry favour |
Gain favour |
To cut both ends |
To argue in support of both sides of the issue |
To cut somebody down |
To kill somebody |
To cut the crackle |
To stop talking and start |
To cut the Gordian knot |
to be victorious |
To cut your teeth |
To gain experience |
To die in shoes |
To be murdered |
To disabuse one’s mind |
To remove a misapprehension |
To draw bead upon |
To take aim at |
To draw the long bow |
To make and exaggerated statement |
To drive at |
To employ |
To drive home |
To emphasize |
To eat one’s terms |
To study for the bar(law) |
To egg on |
To urge on |
To fall aboard of |
To start fighting/ quarrelling |
To fall foul of |
To quarrel |
To feather one’s nest |
To provide money even dishonestly |
To feel in one’s bone |
To know or sense some thing intuitively |
To fight to the bitter end |
To carry on a contest regardless of consequences |
To fish in troubled water |
To try to win advantages for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs, to take advantage of troubled or uncertain conditions for personal gain n |
To fly in the face of |
To act in defiance of authority , facts , custom |
To fly off the handle |
To lose one’s temper |
To fly off the handle |
To get into a rage and lose self-control |
To fool around |
To waste time |
To foot the bill |
To make payment |
To forbid the banns |
To object the banns |
To gain the ground |
To become more general |
To get along |
To manage to |
To get at |
Reach |
To get cold feet |
To be afraid |
To get into a flap |
To be in a state of agitation , confusion, nervous, excitement etc. |
To get into a stew |
To have an anxious state of mind |
To get into bad odour |
To become popular |
To get into scrape |
To find oneself in an awkward predicament |
To get the axe |
To be dismissed from a job |
To get the hang of thing |
To understand the meaning of it |
To give a rap on the knuckles |
To rebuke |
To give chapter and verse for a thing |
To produce the proof of something |
To give currency to |
To pay much attention to |
To give get/give the bird |
To send away |
To give one’s ears |
To listen carefully |
to give up the ghost |
To die |
To go by |
to be guided by |
To go for the juggler |
To make a destructive attack |
To go through the motions |
To work carelessly |
To go to the devil |
To fail completely |
To go without saying |
Clear |
To hand in one’s cheeks |
To die |
To hang up one’s hat |
To make oneself comfortable in another person’s home |
To have a bash at |
To attempt something for the first time |
To have a hollow leg |
To have a large appetite |
To have a memory like a sieve |
To have a faint memory |
To have a monkey on one’s back |
To be addicted to narcotic drug |
To have bats in one’s belfry |
To have crazy ideas , to be very peculiar or foolish |
To have brush with |
To have a slight encounter |
To have cold feet |
To be reluctant |
To have one’s heart in one’s boots |
To be deeply depressed |
To have the floor |
To make speech |
To have the sun in one’s eye |
To drink |
To hit the nail on the head |
To guess right |
to hoist with one’s own petard |
To be caught in ones own trap |
To hold a brief for |
To defend someone |
To hold a candle to |
To be nearly as good as someone in his/her absence |
To hold something in leash |
To restrain |
to imitate to go ape over |
To be extremely enthusiastic over |
To keep one’s head above eater |
To keep out of debt |
To keep the ball rolling |
To maintain progress |
To keep the pot boiling |
Keep the controversy alive |
To kick against the pricks |
To hurt oneself by useless resistance |
To kick up a row |
To make great noise and fuss |
To kill the fatted calf |
To celebrate especially at a prodigal’s return |
To knock the bottom out |
To make a scheme |
To know (somebody) off his pedestal |
To show that he is no longer highly regarded |
To lay someone under tribute |
To impose tax on somebody |
To lead one by the nose |
To cause to follow blindly |
To lead others up the garden |
To deceive others |
To leap in the dark |
Careless action |
To leas astray |
To misguide |
To let one’s hair down |
To behave informally |
To let the bygones be bygones |
Ignore the past |
To live by one’s wits |
To get money by ingenious and irregular methods not necessarily honest |
To live fast |
To lead a life of dissipation |
To live in clover |
To live in great comfort and luxury |
To look down one’s nose at |
To regard with half-hidden displeasure or contempt |
To look sharp |
To be quick |
To loose one’s head |
To become confused and over exited |
To Make A Long Story Short: |
Something someone would say during a long and boring story in order to keep his/her audience from losing attention. Usually the story isn't shortened. |
To make a pile |
To make a fortune |
To make a shot |
To make a guess |
To make no bones about something |
To do or say a thing openly if it is unpleasant |
To make one’s bow |
To appear first time in publically |
To make the grade |
To come out successful |
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