Thursday 10 March 2011

IDIOMS


1. An apple of discord - Cause of quarrel
2. An apple of one’s eye - Very Dear
3. To add fule to the fire - To aggravate some situatio or matter
4. A bed of roses - An easy and comfortable situation
5. Adam ‘s ale - Pure water
6. To add insuit to injure - To harm as well ashumiliate
7. At daggers drawn - On inimical terms
8. Against the rainy day - Precaution for emergency
9. At a loss - To be confused
10. At logger heads - Terms of hostility
11. At an arm’s length - To keep danger or evil at a distance
12. At one’s fingers’ends - to have full and ready knowledge
13. An axe to grind - Some personal motive
14. To beat about the bush - to stray from the main point
15. To bear the burnt point - To endure the calamity of difficult situation
16. To bring to light - To disclose
17. At sixes and sevens - In disorder

18. At the eleventh hour - At the last moment
19. At one’s beck and call - At one’s command
20. At one’s wits’end - to be confused
21. To bear the plam - To be victorius
22. Bosom friend - Intimeate friend
23. Bag and baggage - With full laggage
24. To bury the hatchet - To end old enmity
25. By leaps and bounds - Very rapidly
26. To be in bad books of - To be in kind favour
27. To be in bad odour of - To be out of favour

28. To be in good odour - To be out of favour
29. To be in good odour of - To be in good favour
30. Bolt from the blue - A sudden calamity

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