🔰50 IDIOMS AND PHRASES 🔰
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☛ A dime a dozen – common and easy to get
☛Between the cup and the lip – before something can has really happened.
☛ Blue blood – belonging to family of kings or royalty.
☛ A damp squib – disappointing; completely lacking in excitement
☛ Head Over Heels – fully; completely
☛ An iron hand / iron fist – being merciless; to control very strictly
☛ An eyewash – something that is not true; fake; doing something to satisfy someone
☛ At the drop of a hat – immediately; without thinking about it; doing it frequently
☛ At one’s wits end – to not know what to do
☛Burn the midnight oil – Work or study hard
☛Hand over fist – Quickly, easily, in large amounts.
☛ daggers drawn – (used to two or more people or entities) being very angry with each other
☛be at sea – to be confused or completely lost; not knowing what to do.
☛To play ducks and drakes – To act recklessly; to be dishonest; to treat someone unfairly
☛To bell the cat – To face do something risky / to take a risk
☛At sixes and sevens – to be in a state of complete confusion
☛Feather one’s own nest – Make money unfairly
☛Turn over a new leaf – Change for the better
☛Tooth and nail – With all one’s power
☛Smell a rat – Suspect something bad
☛At one’s beck and call – Under his control
☛With flying colours – Doing something extremely well
☛Stick to one’s guns – Sticking with one's opinion or to what one has said.
☛Hard and fast – Very strict
☛Beat around the bush – Avoid coming to the point
☛Chew the cud – Think about over something
☛Kick the bucket – Die
☛Spill the beans – To disclose a secret
☛By leaps and bounds – Rapidly
☛Ever and anon – Now and then, occasionally
☛Bone of contention – Cause of an argument
☛A man of straw – A weak person
☛Golden handshake – A big sum of money given to a person at retirement
☛To die in harness – To die while in duty
☛Add fuel to the fire – To worsen the situation
☛Be on cloud nine – Very happy
☛A bolt from the blue – Something unexpected
☛Know the ropes – To understand the details
☛To give vent to – Express (usually after being frustrated)
☛Jump the bandwagon – To do something because it is likely to succeed or because everyone is doing it
☛Cry over spilled milk – Complaining about a loss or failure from the past
☛A mare’s nest – A false invention
☛Behind closed doors – Doing something secretly
☛Come hell or high water – Great obstacles in your path
☛Back to Square One – To go back to the beginning
☛Blessing in disguise – Something good and useful that did not initially seem that way
☛Icing on the cake – Something that turns good into great
☛Cost an arm and a leg – Be very expensive
☛Up in Arms – Very angry
☛Black and blue – Full of Bruises
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☛ A dime a dozen – common and easy to get
☛Between the cup and the lip – before something can has really happened.
☛ Blue blood – belonging to family of kings or royalty.
☛ A damp squib – disappointing; completely lacking in excitement
☛ Head Over Heels – fully; completely
☛ An iron hand / iron fist – being merciless; to control very strictly
☛ An eyewash – something that is not true; fake; doing something to satisfy someone
☛ At the drop of a hat – immediately; without thinking about it; doing it frequently
☛ At one’s wits end – to not know what to do
☛Burn the midnight oil – Work or study hard
☛Hand over fist – Quickly, easily, in large amounts.
☛ daggers drawn – (used to two or more people or entities) being very angry with each other
☛be at sea – to be confused or completely lost; not knowing what to do.
☛To play ducks and drakes – To act recklessly; to be dishonest; to treat someone unfairly
☛To bell the cat – To face do something risky / to take a risk
☛At sixes and sevens – to be in a state of complete confusion
☛Feather one’s own nest – Make money unfairly
☛Turn over a new leaf – Change for the better
☛Tooth and nail – With all one’s power
☛Smell a rat – Suspect something bad
☛At one’s beck and call – Under his control
☛With flying colours – Doing something extremely well
☛Stick to one’s guns – Sticking with one's opinion or to what one has said.
☛Hard and fast – Very strict
☛Beat around the bush – Avoid coming to the point
☛Chew the cud – Think about over something
☛Kick the bucket – Die
☛Spill the beans – To disclose a secret
☛By leaps and bounds – Rapidly
☛Ever and anon – Now and then, occasionally
☛Bone of contention – Cause of an argument
☛A man of straw – A weak person
☛Golden handshake – A big sum of money given to a person at retirement
☛To die in harness – To die while in duty
☛Add fuel to the fire – To worsen the situation
☛Be on cloud nine – Very happy
☛A bolt from the blue – Something unexpected
☛Know the ropes – To understand the details
☛To give vent to – Express (usually after being frustrated)
☛Jump the bandwagon – To do something because it is likely to succeed or because everyone is doing it
☛Cry over spilled milk – Complaining about a loss or failure from the past
☛A mare’s nest – A false invention
☛Behind closed doors – Doing something secretly
☛Come hell or high water – Great obstacles in your path
☛Back to Square One – To go back to the beginning
☛Blessing in disguise – Something good and useful that did not initially seem that way
☛Icing on the cake – Something that turns good into great
☛Cost an arm and a leg – Be very expensive
☛Up in Arms – Very angry
☛Black and blue – Full of Bruises
📚rose-coloured glasses
✍🏾 Meaning
If someone sees things through rose-coloured glasses, they see things as being better than they really are.
❗️For example
🔸He sees things through rose-coloured glasses, and refuses to work towards improving the situation.
🔸One should have courage and maturity to see things as they really are. Blind believers see things through rose coloured glasses.
Other Forms:
rose-tinted glasses
rose-tinted spectacles
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✍🏾 Meaning
If someone sees things through rose-coloured glasses, they see things as being better than they really are.
❗️For example
🔸He sees things through rose-coloured glasses, and refuses to work towards improving the situation.
🔸One should have courage and maturity to see things as they really are. Blind believers see things through rose coloured glasses.
Other Forms:
rose-tinted glasses
rose-tinted spectacles
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✅ Idioms with 👨 and 🌊
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(A) MAN :-
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(1) A MAN OF FEW WORDS→ One who doesn’t speak too much / reserved / reticent.
(2) A MAN OF WORDS→ One who keeps his promises / trustworthy.
(3) A MAN OF LETTERS→ Scholarly, erudite
(4) A MAN IN THE STREET→ Common / ordinary man
(5) A MAN OF STRAW→ weak person (Also straw man)
(6) A MAN OF SUBSTANCE → rich and wealthy / influential.
(7) A MAN OF PARTS / RENAISSANCE MAN→ a man who is expert in different spheres
(8) LADIES’ MAN→ a man who enjoys the company of ladies
(9) MAN OF HOUR→ one who is honoured and appreciated
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(B) SEA / OCEAN
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(1) AT SEA→ in a state of confusion / dilemma
(2) A SEA CHANGE→ a big change
(3) BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA→ in a very difficult situation.
(4) A DROP IN THE OCEAN→ a small amount of something
(5) AN OCEAN OF SOMETHING→ a lot of something
(6) BOIL THE OCEAN→ to do the impossible thing
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(A) MAN :-
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(1) A MAN OF FEW WORDS→ One who doesn’t speak too much / reserved / reticent.
(2) A MAN OF WORDS→ One who keeps his promises / trustworthy.
(3) A MAN OF LETTERS→ Scholarly, erudite
(4) A MAN IN THE STREET→ Common / ordinary man
(5) A MAN OF STRAW→ weak person (Also straw man)
(6) A MAN OF SUBSTANCE → rich and wealthy / influential.
(7) A MAN OF PARTS / RENAISSANCE MAN→ a man who is expert in different spheres
(8) LADIES’ MAN→ a man who enjoys the company of ladies
(9) MAN OF HOUR→ one who is honoured and appreciated
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(B) SEA / OCEAN
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(1) AT SEA→ in a state of confusion / dilemma
(2) A SEA CHANGE→ a big change
(3) BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA→ in a very difficult situation.
(4) A DROP IN THE OCEAN→ a small amount of something
(5) AN OCEAN OF SOMETHING→ a lot of something
(6) BOIL THE OCEAN→ to do the impossible thing
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Idioms and Phrases on Working Hard
🔥Burn the candle at both ends
Stay up late into the night and then get up early the next day to carry on working
🔥Burn the midnight oil
Work late into the night
🏜Come up trumps (or turn up trumps)
Produce what’s needed at the last moment
🏖Dead certain
Something that’s certain to happen or be achieved
⛱Draw a blank
Fail to remember something
👜In the bag
Something that is guaranteed or assured
🧣Keep your nose to the grindstone
work dedicatedly
🧴Knuckle down
focus on a project or a task
🧸Make a pig’s Ear of
make a complete mess of something
🧼Make the Grade / Make the Cut
to pass or to be selected for something
🧣Moment of truth
the time when you find out if your efforts have succeeded.
🧺On course for
likely to achieve something
🔦Rise to the occasion
Manage to do something successfully in difficult circumstances
🧤Sail through
succeed in doing something without difficulty.
#idioms
🔥Burn the candle at both ends
Stay up late into the night and then get up early the next day to carry on working
🔥Burn the midnight oil
Work late into the night
🏜Come up trumps (or turn up trumps)
Produce what’s needed at the last moment
🏖Dead certain
Something that’s certain to happen or be achieved
⛱Draw a blank
Fail to remember something
👜In the bag
Something that is guaranteed or assured
🧣Keep your nose to the grindstone
work dedicatedly
🧴Knuckle down
focus on a project or a task
🧸Make a pig’s Ear of
make a complete mess of something
🧼Make the Grade / Make the Cut
to pass or to be selected for something
🧣Moment of truth
the time when you find out if your efforts have succeeded.
🧺On course for
likely to achieve something
🔦Rise to the occasion
Manage to do something successfully in difficult circumstances
🧤Sail through
succeed in doing something without difficulty.
#idioms
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