CATE SOE Ces! Hit the books A piece of cake Crocodile tears To hold good It's all Greek to me Pull a long face Bed of roses fish out of water Hobson's choice Face up to running around in circles Hale and hearty Strain every nerve Jump the gun Dark horse Be like chalk and cheese green-eyed Charley horse Carry the day White elephant To put someone's back up chip off the old block High spirits Gear up for Call upon Lose your touch At one’s elbow Blow up A fly on the wall In the same boat hair's breadth Grease someone’s palm A storm in a tea cup Tell upon A snake in the grass Tit for tat Win laurels By the skin of one's teeth Safe pair of hands Let down. Hard and fast catch 22 To study very hard An easy task Pretended show of sorrow To remain valid I cannot understand anything To look sad Pleasant condition of life Being uncomfortable and restless A choice forced upon someone To accept a difficult situation To be very active but with few results Strong and healthy To try extremely hard to do something To do something too soon An unexpected winner Be absolutely different jealous Cramp winning Costly but useless possession To irritate someone Similar to one's parents in behaviour cheerful Get ready for To order Not being as successful as previously Next to someone To destroy by an explosion An unperceived observer To be in the same difficult situation as someone else narrow margin Bribe someone A lot of anger and worry about trivial things To affect adversely A deceitful person Counter attack To gain honour Barely managed to escape A person who can be trusted to do something efficiently To fail Strict A difficult situation in which the solution to a problem is impossible Scanned with CamScanner(dioms)//Phrases Questions asked /in|SSC/CHSL 2021 Tier! 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 Knock down Eat like a horse Beat around the bush Red letter day Read between the lines A kick in the teeth Donkey’s years Go to the wall Under the weather By leaps and bounds Have a long face The best of both worlds Get away Between Scylla and Charybdis Be at a loose end Have a soft spot for someone Pull the plug At loggerheads Playing devil's advocate Back out Comparing apples with oranges Lion’s share Get the axe Wipe the floor with someone To pay lip service Every dog has his day Come about Break a leg Miss the boat On cloud nine Sum and substance Under duress Apple of one’s eye Up in arms Cut straight to the chase Make one’s blood boil Gong pets SES To demolish Eat a lot of food To avoid talking about what is important Memorable day Understand something that is not said outright Great disappointment Long time To fail Feeling ill Very quickly Look unhappy or disappointed An advantageous situation from two different things at a time To leave Between two dangers To have nothing to do To like someone a lot End something Disagreeing with One who argues against something just for the sake of arguing To withdraw from Unequal comparisons Largest share Lose the job To defeat someone To express loyalty, respect, or support for something insincerely Everyone has good luck or success at a point of time To happen Wish someone good luck Miss an opportunity Extremely happy Essence Under pressure Very dear In rebellion Avoid unnecessary introduction and go to the more important part to make someone very angry Scanned with CamScannerGlo ney PdeEE hard of hearin Elbow grease Donkey's years make someone's flesh crawl/creep Start from scratch Chip off the old block to bite the bullet Costs an arm and a leg To bite the bullet Call a spade a spade To draw a blank Man of letters Jump the gun In your birthday suit Twist someone's arm Cast aside Tick all the boxes Once in a blue moon Child’s play apple-cart Pocket an insult Be under a cloud Hit the sack In queer street Snail’s pace The movers and shakers Snake in the grass Get one’s dander up partially deaf Hard physical efforts Avery long time to make someone feel disgusted, afraid, frightened Start entirely from the beginning Someone who resembles their parent Force oneself to do something unpleasant too expensive for us to buy To be brave in a difficult situation talking too frankly To be unsuccessful at eliciting a response Scholar Start something too soon or act hastily Not wearing any clothes To try to force someone to do something To reject To fulfil the required norms Very rarely An easy task Spoil careful plans Tolerate insult without protest To be untrustworthy Go to sleep In debt Very slow People who have a lot of power and influence Treacherous person Lose one’s temper Scanned with CamScannerBOgGeer sasoen ~B 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Stosrw eGicg get Pain in the neck Make a bee line follow suit Swim with the tide Come to blows Cost (someone) dearly A house of cards Take pains lose count of see the light of day Have cold feet To be in hot water To be ill at ease Bottom line Be in someone's shoes All ears Flex one’s muscles Full of hot air A piece of cake To raise a few eyebrows In line with A hot potato Once for all Full of beans On purpose ‘The lion's share Take a toll Learn the ropes More or less On the back burner Fall out with someone Eye wash By and large No love lost Spill the beans Have your back against the wall frases asked in 5 Ce ee Try Cea ‘Someone or something that is very annoying go straight to do the same as others Agree with the popular opinion Start fighting after a disagreement ‘To bring one suffering An insecure situation ‘Try hard forget the accurate total become publicly known Lose confidence To be in a difficult situation in which you can be criticised to feel uncomfortable or worried in a situation ‘The most important fact face the same situation as another person To wait eagerly for some news give or make a show of one’s strength Self-important To be easy To cause surprise or shock In agreement a controversial issue conclusively Lively deliberately The largest portion To harm or damage To learn how to do a job or activity approximately To temporarily not deal with some matter because it is not urgent Stop being friendly after an argument A deception On the whole Persons who do not like each other at all To give away a secret To be in a desperate situation with very few options Cress ees Sener errs bie Go back to the drawing board Give someone the cold shoulder Be the devil's advocate A stitch in time saves nine. Go to the dogs Shed light on Hit a brick wall Hold your horses Lock horns Get out of hand Bite off more than you can chew Let the cat out of the bag A dime a dozen Raining cats and dogs Start planning all over again Ignore someone Present counter arguments It is better to solve a problem straight away and not let it become bigger. Be ruined or destroyed To explain a situation Encounter an obstacle Be patient Fight with someone Become difficult to control ‘Take on more work than you can handle Reveal a secret Common and easily available Raining heavily Scanned with CamScannerCioany Opie To have an axe to To have a selfish motive in 118 grind doing something 2 Asquare deal A fair and honest deal 115 87 3 Against one’s grain _—_Against one’s nature 135-561 4 Torise like a phoenix To emerge with a new life 151 984 5 To turn the corner To pass the critical stage - - 6 Tohit below the belt To attack in an unfair 161 1220 manner 7 Keep your head Remain calm 140713 8 Toread between the To understand the implied 150 975 lines meaning 9 Fullofhot air Talking nonsense 133° S11 10 To meet one’s Waterloo To experience defeat - - 11 Not make head or tail not able to understand 144 796 anything 12 Not mince words To speak in a direct way 145 835 13 To take stock of To assess 165 1303 14 Read between the lines Discern the hidden 150 975 meaning in the text 15 Wear your hearton Toshowyourtrucemotions 167 1369 your sleeve 16 On tenterhooks Anxious and tense 175115 17 On cloud nine Extremely happy and 157 1133 excited 18 Miss the boat To lose an opportunity 162 1254 19 Don't put all your eggs Don't concentrate all your 129° 417 in the same basket _resources in one place Scanned with CamScanner4 woran 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 To know what's what To rub salt in someone’s wound Flea market through thick and thin moved heaven and earth Out of the blue Full steam ahead cut down on Loaded words Pain in the neck Crack up the lion’s share Think on your feet Go through the roof To beat the clock As thick as two short planks Take up room Draw first blood Get out of hand To get wind of Hit the sack give up To spill the beans To take up the gauntlet A cold fish Vanish into thin air Maiden speech A dime a dozen To be on the same page Tickled pink Cool as a cucumber Come to blows Play for time To breathe one’s last Drop names To beat around the bush To break new ground To break into tears EST TeM Ch Mery re) Tt To know the facts of a situation To make a bad or painful situation worse A place where antiques and second-hand goods are sold in both, good times and bad times did everything possible Unexpectedly Move onward with determination reduce Words that carry more significance than their literal meaning Someone or something that is annoying or a nuisance Laugh out loud the largest part Adjust quickly to changes and make fast decisions Rise very high To perform a task within the time limit Extremely stupid Occupy space Be the first to gain an advantage or score against an opponent Lose control To learn something secret Go to bed stop doing it To give away a secret To accept a challenge An unemotional person Disappear completely First speech Something very common or of little value To agree on something Very pleased Calm Get into a fight physically To make excuses or do things to gain time To die Name famous people to impress others To avoid the main issue To innovate or pioneer To cry suddenly Scanned with CamScanner(dioms)//Phrases Questions asked in'SSC/GD/Constable'202 J 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 S7 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 7s 76 77 78 79 diomel/ PHrasel To get out of hand Down in the dumps Blow a fuse The apple of one’s eye All and sundry Hold your horses To break loose Big bucks A can of worms Over and over again Worked like a dream Mark up On cloud nine In the long run Chicken hearted Wee hours of the day Not breathe a word To give up the ghost To pull a fast one on someone To kick the bucket Pass the baton Keep in touch Wear and tear To aim for the stars To do the dishes Spick and span Ata snail’s pace Hand in hand Toe the line Elephant in the room Hands down To take pains Child’s play Gift of the gab Blue blood Having a soft spot for To be on pins and needles At the eleventh hour To put something on hold Monkey business In the long run sentir To become uncontrollable In a depressed state of mind To react very angrily A person who is very dear Everyone Be patient To escape A lot of money A complicated situation or problem Do something repeatedly A plan succeeded perfectly Increase the price Very happy Eventually Easily scared Dawn To remain silent about some secret To stop working To cheat someone To die shift responsibility to others Maintain contact Damage caused by use To set high goals To wash and dry dishes Very neat and clean Very slowly Together Follow the rules An obvious issue left unaddressed due to its sensitivity Easily and without doubt To make efforts Something that is very easy Ability to speak confidently and clearly Noble birth Being fond of To be in an agitated state of suspense At the very last minute To postpone something Behaviour that is not acceptable or is dishonest Ultimately Scanned with CamScanner80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 Feel at sea In the same boat Down in the mouth To take the bull by the horns Ina fix Open-ended Ins and outs See the light of day From far and wide Alive and kicking a blessing in disguise To lose one’s head To take stock of To get out of hand Bite someone’s head off Once in a blue moon A dog’s life To catch someone's fancy Storm in a teacup To let someone off To blow one’s own horn To go round in circles Raining cats and dogs Between Scylla and Charybdis A fine state of affairs For good Having the gift of the gab On the cards spick and span Come of age To be off the hook Odd man out Out of the blue Hang up one’s boots Drag one’s feet Game is up Dig up dirt on someone To land a job Once and for all Under the weather idioms)//Phrases Questions asked in|SSC/GD Constable 202: medioms|/ Phrases iGeerare To feel lost or confused In a similar situation To be depressed To deal with difficult situations courageously In a difficult situation Having no planned ending Complete facts Become publicly known From all directions Healthy and doing well event that seemed bad at first but resulted in something good later To become upset or angry To think carefully To get out of control Speak angrily without any reason Taking place very rarely A miserable life To appeal to someone Anger or fuss about something trivial To punish someone lightly To praise oneself To waste one's time and energy doing trivial things Raining heavily Choice between two unpleasant alternatives An unpleasant situation Forever Talks well and persuasively Likely to happen neat and tidy Reach maturity To escape a difficult situation Person who doesn't fit into a group Completely unexpectedly Retire from a sport Do something deliberately at a slow pace Deception is at an end Discover damaging information about someone To be hired Finally Slightly ill Scanned with CamScannerdioms)//Phrases Questions asked in SSCiGD Constable/202, BU Sonny) piers: 120 To have a yen for To have a very strong and continuous desire or craving for something 121 Go with the flow Do what others are doing 122 Out of question Impossible 123 make head or tail of understand 124 To bear fruit To produce positive results 125 Eagle eye An eye with sharp visual powers 126 To lag behind To fail to maintain the pace or progress 127 Lap up Accept eagerly Scanned with CamScannerTo make up for To cut corners Under the weather To get cold feet The apple of someone's eyes Once and for all Twist someone’s arm To call the shots Dry run Ata snail’s pace Hang up your boots. In high spirits Get your act together Vanish into thin air Throw caution to the wind Hanging by a thread/a hair Cross a bridge when you come to it Pull yourself together In the same boat The black sheep Hit a dead end Hit the nail on the head Take one's hat off to someone Make a beeline for All ears Bury the hatchet Chill out Raise an alarm Take a cue from someone Hold one’s tongue heey to replace something that is lost or damaged To save money and economise Not feeling well To become afraid to do something the person that someone loves and is proud of Finally persuade someone to do something To have control Rehearsal of an event very slowly retire from playing a game joyful organise your work in a better way disappear behave in a reckless manner being in a dangerous position deal with something when it happens, and not worry about it beforehand control emotions and behave calmly sharing the same problem one who is not accepted as part of a family or group because of one’s bad conduct reach a situation that leads to nothing further say something that is exactly right show admiration for someone To move directly towards something ready to listen make peace Relax completely warn of a dangerous situation be strongly influenced by someone To keep quiet Scanned with CamScanneraswn CeCnrID Idiom Fair-weather friend Full of beans To take pains Fifth wheel Make head or tail of something Fight tooth and nail Hue and cry A hard nut to crack Hold your horses Give and take meets] Meaning A person whose friendship cannot be relied on in difficult times Happy and energetic To make efforts An unneeded person To figure out something Fight very fiercely A noisy expression of anger A difficult person Be patient Obliging each other mutually Scanned with CamScanneridioms 7/Ph jestions asked in. SSC MTS 2020) EG oe Mes, JQatiys 1 Cover up Hide or conceal 2 Make up with (someone) Close or ignore the differences with (someone) 3 He who laughs last laughs _He who focuses on winning in the long term is loudest successful 4 Much ado about nothing —- Making a big fuss over a small thing 5 A bolt from the blue Unexpected and surprising event 6 Herculean task Very tough task 7 Break new ground Do or discover something new 8 Sell like hot cakes Sell very fast 9 To get on the nerves To irritate 10 By the same token In the same way 11 Keep someone in the loop Give them all the information 12 Of the old school Old fashioned in thought 13 Over the moon Extremely happy 14 Copycat One who imitates another closely 15 Close to one’s heart Dear and important to oneself 16 Go bonkers Become crazy 17 Turn a deaf ear Ignore what someone says 18 Pull someone up Criticise someone 19 Raining cats and dogs Raining very heavily 20 How time flies! Time seems to move quickly 21 Gooff Stop working 22 Break in Enter a building illegally 23 Babe in the woods A young defenceless person 24 Be allears Eager to listen 25 Change for the better An improvement in the situation 26 Loosen the purse strings To increase the money available for expenditure 27 To be off your food To have no appetite 28 To go bananas To become very excited or angry 29 Comb through To carefully look through 30 Loudmouth One who talks boastfully 31 Fit asa fiddle To be in excellent health and good working order 32 Elbow grease A lot of physical effort 33 Fly the nest Children leaving their parents’ home to live on their own 34 Your guess is as goodas _To have no idea of the answer mine 35 Horses for courses Different people are suited for different jobs 36 Get on like a house on fire To become friends quickly Scanned with CamScanneridioms )//Phrases Questions asked jin|SSC/MTS 2020) ee 37 Have your heart set on To want something very much something 38 Drop in Pay a casual visit 39 A turning point The time at which an important change starts 40 To be taken aback To be surprised 41 In the eye of the storm Be in a controversial situation 42 Arotten apple A single bad person or thing in a group 43. Giving a false alarm A situation when people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen 44. Alive and kicking To be active and healthy 45. Chinks in t he armour A weakness that can be taken advantage of 46 Hit the ceiling Explode in anger 47 Months on end Several months in a row 48 See eye to eye Agree 49 Be over the moon Very pleased about something 50 Call off Cancel something 51 A piece of the pie A share in money or business 52 Follow suit To do as others have done 53 Put off To delay 54 Carry on Continue doing something 55 Fall for To be tricked or fooled by 56 At beck and call Ready to do everything for someone 57 Bear fruit Produce positive results 58 Tighten one's belt To cut one's expenditure 59 Be Off To go away 60 Bear the brunt Suffer the worst of something 61 Behind closed doors Do something secretly 62 Whet your appetite To want something more 63 Get something off one’s Talk about something that is worrying you chest 64 At loggerheads To disagree strongly 65 Atastretch Without a stop 66 Lean and mean Ready and efficient 67 Keep in check To control something 68 Make out Understand someone or something with difficulty 69 Pick and choose Select only the best from choices 70 To be moved to tears To be overwhelmed with emotion 71 To gain ground To make progress 72 Change hands Pass from one person to another 73 Out of the question Not possible at all 74 Play safe Avoid risks and take precautions 75 Feel the pinch Face financial difficulties 76 Bull’s-eye Something that is the centre of a target 77 Off-colour Feeling slightly ill Scanned with CamScannerBlackbook of English Vocabulary ESE PTO Ces Oe) es On eee) [dioms 7 Phrases a 78 Back up Defend or support 79 Work out Exercise or develop a plan 80 Make no bones about Be frank and open about something something 81 To take for granted To accept without question or objection 82 Togo nuts To become crazy 83 To be onaroll To be experiencing a successful period 84 Many astlip between the Bad things may happen before the task is cup and the lip finished Scanned with CamScanner16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 Glome / piers. UGE k iid) Go to the dogs Deteriorate shockingly 113 Pull something off Make something happen 407 Under wraps secretly 136 On tenterhooks Very tense 150 fell flat failed to have an effect 149 To go red in the face _—‘To feel embarrassed to make up to settle their differences 136 To poke one’s nose into To take interest in others’ affairs To have eggs on one’s _‘To be embarrassed because of face one’s action ‘Thick as thieves Having a close friendship Butter fingers To be clumsy Large-hearted Generous 348 To play with fire To act ina dangerous andrisky 124 way in vogue in fashion 117 without rhyme or without a reasonable explanation reason. To add insult to injury _ to make something worse 146 know inside out To know something thoroughly 118 Hard nut to crack a difficult person or problem 143 Needle in a haystack Something impossible to find 148 A blessing in disguise something good that isn’t 146 recognised at first Cook the books To falsify financial records To cut corners not do a thing well in order to save 107 money or effort Poke one’s nose Interfere or meddle A fire in someone's belly one who is energetic and enthusiastic about something Break the ice Make a beginning or start 103 something A lean patch A period of poor performance Rank and file Ordinary workers in a company for good. forever 111 Burn the midnight oil _ work late into the night 133 To come round To become conscious again A red letter day a memorable day 96 Adime a dozen common and so of little value 152 Hang on every word Listen very carefully Off and on sometimes but not regularly 122 1106 96 816 613 69 645 105 63 351 239 449 1022 71 187 744 Scanned with CamScanner41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 waters Ata stone’s throw Caught red-handed To be all ears a far cry. Living in a fool’s paradise To put one’s foot in one’s mouth rules the roost. Not one’s cup of tea To cross one’s mind Full of beans kept up appearances Method to one’s madness Get out of hand Make big time In hot water speaks volumes Wash your dirty linen in public To run around like a headless chicken To leave no stone unturned Provide a blueprint Go back to the drawing board Read between the lines A good turn Be glad to see the back of By the skin of one’s teeth ‘A sea change cold blood Cost an arm and a leg A bolt from the blue Get One’s Ducks in a Row To take advantage of a difficult situation At a very short distance 96 81 Caught in the act of doing 105 298 something illegal To be ready and eager to listen 132 996 very distant 110 422 To believe wrongly that your 148 102 situation is good To accidentally embarrass or upset someone is in complete control 126 870 Not according to one’s interest 121 735 To think of something Happy and energetic 111 456 maintained an expression of well 117 630 being Seeming disorderly yet having a structure To become difficult to control 123 779 Attain fame and success In trouble 134 1050 conveys a great deal 128 906 Discuss private matters in front of 131 993 others To do many things in a disorganised manner To try everything possible to solve 118 658 a problem Give a detailed plan or scheme start planning again because 134 1057 earlier plans failed understand what is implied but 138 1132 not stated directly A helpful act 107 368 Be happy when a person leaves 100 187 By a very narrow margin 104 274 Complete transformation 96 75 cruelly, without any emotions 116 588 Be extremely expensive 106 332 something that happens suddenly 93 9 have everything properly organized Scanned with CamScannerClonee 2eECE Something that is very easy todo 93 To be in the dark to not know something others are An unclear situation To delay taking a decision To have just enough money to live To drag one’s feet To make both ends meet Getting butterflies in To be anxious and nervous one's stomach A Herculean task A task requiring great effort 116 108 136 103 115 Scanned with CamScannerLittle by li Adry run Call on Look out Give a hand Bear the brunt of The sword of Damocles Tide over Through thick and thin Kick up a row Pocket an insult Make one’s mark Kith and kin Rise to the occasion Strike when the iron is hot To take stock of Apple of discord High time ‘Make up one’s mind Sitting on a gold mine Snake in the grass Egg on Through and through Abird’s eye view Get your money’s worth gradually a rehearsal it be careful assist bear the maximum fury an impending threat to overcome under all circumstances cause a disturbance bear an insult quietly attain recognition family relations show you can deal with a situation successfully grab a favourable opportunity promptly to assess a situation something that causes friction past the appropriate time to decide to own something potentially valuable a deceitful person encourage completely a cursory look to pay and get something of good value Scanned with CamScanner11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Cente Eat one's words Rose-coloured glasses On the spur of the moment One track mind On the double Over one’s head A fair weather friend Breath of fresh air Take exception like a fish out of water by leaps and bounds a nine days’ wonder cast a slur upon brought to book lay our heads together up to the mark a cry in the wilderness spread like wild fire Do a good turn Blow one’s own trumpet Far and wide Carry the day Eye-wash Cry over spilt milk First and foremost Apple of one’s eye Behind one’s back retract what one has said a positive outlook on life acting impulsively without thinking always thinking of only one thing at a fast pace beyond one’s capability to understand something an unreliable friend someone or something new and refreshing object to uncomfortable and restless at a rapid pace a short-lived sensation damaged held accountable work in consultation up to the required standard an unheeded warning spread rapidly Render a service Praise oneself In all directions Win a victory A deception To regret uselessly Most important aspect Very dear In one’s absence Scanned with CamScannerweary aneonan et SReEagw oS RREBBRBEBSRBBY R RERKRLBSE 28 2g Gla Dieses . Meanings with open arms Off and on took heart ooking for a needle in a haystack got the green light Up in arms Left out in cold Handle with kid gloves Run around in circles Work against the clock Bed of roses Al the drop of a hat Make a beeline for Till the cows come home Touch and got above board atsea made off in the teeth of a close shave. fell flat for good. carried the day to die in harness too many irons in the fire make a dent in make a clean breast of it Come rain or shine To be thrown in at the deep end getting out of hand To read between the lines To blaze a trail A dark horse To make castles in the air Of the first water Be left in the lurch the last straw to steal her brother's thunder through thick and thin Go down in flames Warmly Periodically Gathered courage Doing something impossible Got permission to go ahead with something tobe angry tobe ignored to treat someone with extreme care to keep doing something without achieving much work in great hurry Anenjoyable state Instantly Go straight to Fora long, long time Uncertain honest and frank confused ran away wi in direct opposition to a narrow escape failed to make an impact forever won a victory to continue occupation till death She was involved in many activities to reduce an amount of something, esp. money or work confessed his crime whatever happens lear to do the difficult things too soon: not in control anymore to understand the implied meaning to initiate something new an unknown genius to create impossible dreams or hopes of the best quality be deserted when one is in trouble final irritant that made the situation unbearable get more recognition than her brother for their success in times of good and bad fortune fail completely Scanned with CamScanner18 19 20 21 2 23 4 26 7 28 29 30 31 32 33 4 35 36 FHT MICU Sa UNO) OV To take French leave A hard nut to crack A snake in the grass On shank’s mare Blow one's own trumpet Spill the beans Back to square one Dead heat The bee's knees To throw a fit Bring to light Hold water Abed of roses A close-fisted person To take the bull by the horns To flog a dead horse To add fuel to the fire Hobson's Choice Chicken-hearted By and By Pull a fast one See eye to eye To paddle one’s own canoe Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm Look down upon Keep abreast of Come to the point Give a piece of one's mind ‘Cut and dried at large Kill two birds with one stone Make off with Blind alley The acid test To take a back seat To bark up the wrong tree eat Leave without any intimation A difficult problem A secret enemy ‘On foot Praise oneself Give away a secret Come to the original point Close contest that ends ina tie Extraordinary Express extreme anger Reveal clearly Tobe valid Aneasy and happy situation A miserly person ‘To handle difficulties To waste the efforts To make a bad situation worse An apparently free choice where there is no real alternative Cowardly Gradually Trick someone Agree with someone Depend on oneself Dejected To consider someone inferior Keep oneself updated To speak plainly about the real issue To rebuke someone strongly Already decided not caught To achieve two results with a single effort To run away A situation in which no further progress can be made A fact, event or situation that proves something ‘To become less important or to give up control over things To do something that will not get the result you want Scanned with CamScanner4 ora © 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Adime a dozen A piece of cake Actions speak louder than words Add insult to injury Back in saddle Be behind the times Behind the scenes Bite off more than one can chew Call a spade a spade Cash-strapped Chill out Come hell or high water Cool it Couch Potato Cross that bridge Cut to the chase Down-to-earth Eat humble pic Every cloud has a silver lining Falling head over heels Fit as a fiddle Flying off the handle Full of sound and fury Get something off your chest Get the hang of Go off at a tangent Hats off to Ina fog In the blink of an eye It was the last straw ~ Gent Very common Something easy What you do reveals the real you Make a bad situation even worse B-59 Resume duty Be old fashioned Unknown to everyone To take on more than one can B-12 deal with Say the truth about something, _ B-40 even if it is not pleasant Impoverished To calm down In spite of any obstacles B-15 To relax Lazy person B-55 Solve the problem B-16 Talking about the important point B-17 and leaving out the detail Practical and direct B-39 Admit that you are wrong B-41 Something promising is there in B-18 any difficult situation Falling deeply in love with B-23 someone Healthy and strong B8 Suddenly becoming enraged Merely loud and angry words but ineffective Express something that has been worrying you, and you want to say Learn how to use Change the subject immediately B-20 Congratulations to B-36 Confused and dazed Within a very short period of time The situation had become B-57 unbearable 213 949 299 104 320 340 927 964 383 518 133 419 872 143 Scanned with CamScannerfu 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Gionts Jump on the bandwagon Jumped the gun Keep a civil tongue Keep up appearances Keep your shirt on Kept a stiff upper lip Let off the hook Like talking to a brick wall Look after Look before you leap Looking for a needle in a haystack. Looking for greener pastures Made out of whole cloth Make a beeline Neither fish nor fowl Not mince (your) words Old hand Once in a blue moon Out of bounds Parthian shot Plain as day Pull up his socks Pull yourself together Received a new lease of life Reinventing the wheel Rub the wrong way Sleep on it Stir up a hornet’s nest Get involved in an activity B-43 because it is likely to succeed Acted hastily Speak with great politeness To pretend to be happier or richer so as to conceal the real situation To remain cool Remained expressionless Allowed to escape from blame B-30 Inattentive Take care of F-14 Think carefully of the consequences Attempting something impossible B-5 Exploring new opportunities Entirely false and fabricated Go straight to B-28 Something which can neither be categorized easily nor be accepted befittingly State your opinion clearly B29 Experienced Happening only rarely Forbidden’ Parting hit Very obvious and easy to B-32 understand Make a greater effort to improve B-32 Regain composure Became energetic again B-33 B-21 Wasting one’s time for things that have already been satisfactorily done Annoy someone B-34 To wait before making a decision Provoke trouble B-36 696 290 59 650 688 753 772 773 453 804 855 Scanned with CamScannerfae 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 toric Ae Take one’s hat offto_§ someone Take something with a pinch of salt Take the heat The big fish The straw that broke the camel’s back Bevis Show admiration To believe only part of something B-37 Receive criticism Main leaders To be the last in a series of events leading one to feel that it is intolerable To cost an arm and a leg Very expensive To fall on deaf ears To have a gut feeling To leave someone in the lurch. Touch all bases Under the weather Up in arms Upset someone's applecart Vanish into the air B-52 To be ignored B-46 To feel an instinct or intuition B-22 To desert someone in his B-53 difficulties Include everything To be in low spirits B-39 Angry about something B-47 Doing something that fails B48 someone's plan Completely disappear c-37 872 876 49 1094 492 72 935 1125 1127 926 Scanned with CamScannerPho dire with open arms Off and on. took heart looking for a needle in a haystack got the green light Up in arms Left out in cold Handle with kid gloves Run around in circles Work against the clock Bed of roses At the drop of a hat Make a beeline for Till the cows come home Touch and got above board at sea made off in the teeth of a close shave. fell flat for good. carried the day to die in harness too many irons in the fire make a dent in make a clean breast of it Come rain or shine To be thrown in at the deep end getting out of hand To read between the lines To blaze a trail A dark horse To make castles in the air Of the first water Be left in the lurch the last straw to steal her brother's thunder through thick and thin Go down in flames Periodically Gathered courage Doing something impossible Got permission to go ahead with somet tobe angry to be ignored to treat someone with extreme care to keep doing something without achieving much work in great hurry An enjoyable state Instantly Go straight to For along, long time Uncertain honest and frank confused ran away with in direct opposition to anarrow escape failed to make an impact forever won a victory to continue occupation till death She was involved in many activities to reduce an amount of something, esp. money or work confessed his crime whatever happens earn to do the difficult things too soon not in control anymore to understand the implied meaning to initiate something new an unknown genius to create impossible dreams or hopes of the best quality be deserted when one is in trouble final irritant that made the situation unbearable get more recognition than her brother for their success in times of good and bad fortune fail completely Scanned with CamScanner