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🔰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