Idioms

Name: -------------------------------------------------------- Test: English Composition

Q.1 Write down any 10 of the following expressions with their meanings:

(a) To cudgel one’s brains (b) To fight like Kilkenny cats

(c) Cast pearls before swine (d) A curtain lecture

(e) To cross the Rubicon (f) Cast to the winds

(g) To be in a tight corner (h) Under the cloud

(i) A wild goose chase (j) Blood and iron

(k) In cold blood (l) A blue stocking

(m) By fits and starts (n) To bring grist to the mill

(o) To break the ice (p) To walk on the ice

(q) Once in a blue moon (r) Besetting sin

(s) To have a bee in one’s bonnet (t) At a white heat