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Meaning
Honest and open
To keep at a distance
At the last moment
In a disordered manner
A cause of quarrel
Comfortable
The beginning and the end
Confused and lost
At ones service
A critical test
To aggra va te the situation
Very slowly
Talk irrelevantly
A source of quarrel
Go back on a decision
To waste lavishly
Make imaginary schemes
Something unexpected
Rapidly
An important topic
To face the risk
An important person
To praise ones own
achievement
A very close friend
Dreaming
Narrow escape
To make a poor show
Rebuke
Disregard / ignore what one says
By fair or foul means
Become popular
Take revenge
To upset ones plans
Change for the better
Decide
Eventually; ultimately
Just at the last moment
Under all conditions
Oppressively
Hesitate between two decisions
Disclose
Get into trouble by interfering in others affairs
Laugh heartily
Ponder over something
Strict rules
Take an unimportant part

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Idiom
Above board
At arms length
At the eleventh hour
At sixes and sevens
An apple of discord
At home
Alpha and omega
At sea
At ones beck and call
An acid test
Add fuel to the fire
At a snails pace
To beat about the bush
A bone of contention
To burn ones boats
To burn candle at both ends
To build castles in the air
A bolt from the blue
By leaps and bounds
A burning question
To bell the cat
A big gun
To blow ones own
trumpet
A bosom friend
A brown study
A close shave
To cut a sorry figure
Take one to task
Turn a deaf ear
By hook or by crook
Gain ground
Pay off old scores
Put a spoke in ones wheel
Turn over a new leaf
Make up ones mind
In the long run
In the nick of time
Through thick and thin
With a high hand
Sitting on the fence
Bring to light
Burn ones fingers
Laugh ones head off
Chew the cud
Hard and fast rules
Play second fiddle

Idioms & Phrases

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Ordinary persons
In short periods, not regularly
A little
Free from difficulties and dangers
Under his control
In a state where one does not know what to do
Between two dangers

Work or study hard

Spea k fr a n kl y a n d directly
Be highly successful
Without hope
Do or say the exact thing
A personal interest in the matter

Spread like wild fire

The gift of the gab
Throw out of gear
Tooth and nail
Take to ones heels
Die in harness
Out of the way
Read between the lines
In cold blood
Show a clean pair of heals
A thorn in the flesh
Smell a rat
Nip in the bud
Out of the question
Stick to ones guns
A man of straw
Leave no stone unturned
Harp on the same string
Take a leaf out of ones book
Like a fish out of water
At ones beck and call
Bury the hatchet
Feather ones own nest
Leave one in the lurch
To eat humble pie
To eat your words
To make both ends meet
In high spirits
Kill two birds with one stone
Let the cat out of the bag
Put the cart before the horse
A hard nut to crack
In hot water
Wash ones dirty linen
in public
On tenterhooks
To all names

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Spread quickly
Talent for speaking
Disturb the work
With all ones power
Run away
Die while in service
Strange
Understand the hidden meaning
Deliberately; without emotion
Run away
A constant source of annoyance
Suspect something foul
Destroy in the early stage
Impossible
Remain faithful to the cause
A man of no substance
Use all available means
Dwell on the same subject
Imitate one
In a strange situation
Under his control
End the quarrel and make peace
Make money unfairly
Desert one in difficulties; leave one in a helpless condition
To apologize humbly; to yield under humiliating circumstances
To take back what you have said
To live within ones income
Very happy
To achieve two results with one effort
Reveal a secret
Put or do things in the wrong order
A difficult problem
In trouble
Discuss unpleasant
private matters before strangers
- In a state of suspense and anxiety
- To abuse

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Rank and file

By fits and starts
A wee bit
Out of the wood
Under his thumb
At ones wits end
Between the devil and the
deep sea
Burn the midnight oil
Call a spade a spade
Come off with flying colours
Hoping against hope
Hit the nail on the head
An axe to grind

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Bitterly hostile
To act foolishl y or inconsistently
To tackle a problem in a bold and direct fashion
Rain heavily
To make a supreme effort
Without any result
Accuse or denounce the wrong person
Keep one at a distance
Confess especially when a person has done a wrong thing
Have a secret plan in reserve
Very nervous
Life full of quarrels
Made up story that one should not believe
Ask for the impossible
The various aspects of a matter in detail
In a very diffi cul t situation
Be precise, careful and
exact
- The anxiety in which you hope that nothing will upset your plans

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To get rid of
At daggers drawn
To play ducks and drakes
To take the bull by the horns
Rain cats and dogs
To move heaven and earth
No avail
Bark up the wrong tree
Keep one at bay
Make a clean breast of it
Have a card up ones sleeve
Like a cat on hot bricks
Cat and dog life
Cock and bull story
Cry for the moon
The pros and cons
Be in a tight corner
Cross ones ts and dot
ones is
Keep ones fingers crossed

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