| 201. | Fly in the ointment | A light unpleasant thing that obstruct the enjoyment of something |
| 202. | Fool’s paradise | A state of being happy for foolish or unfounded reasons |
| 203. | For a song | A very low price |
| 204. | Forty winks | A nap |
| 205. | French leave | A leave without information or permission |
| 206. | Fringe benefits | An additional benefit apart from salary |
| 207. | From hand to mouth | Providing only bare essential |
| 208. | Flesh and blood | A human being with his natural limitation |
| 209. | Full blown | Fully developed |
| 210. | Gala day | Celebration day |
| 211. | Get away with | To escape |
| 212. | Get down to | To attend to work seriously |
| 213. | Get into a soup | Get into a trouble |
| 214. | Get into hot water | Get into a trouble |
| 215. | Get off scot free | To escape without punishment |
| 216. | Get on one’s nerves | To irritate or annoy |
| 217. | Get the wind of | To know the secrets |
| 218. | Go the whole hog | Do something fully, completely |
| 219. | Give up the ghost | To die, stop working, stop doing something |
| 220. | Go down well with | Applauded by |
| 221. | Get the wind up | To be scared |
| 222. | Give me a hand | To take help |
| 223. | Gain ground | Become popular |
| 224. | Gribble- gabble | Foolish talk |
| 224. | Gift of the gab | Give a piece of mind/to talk speaking |
| 225. | Go scot free | To escape from punishment |
| 226. | Go through fire and water | To brave any danger |
| 227. | Go the whole hog | To do something thoroughly |
| 228. | Go to dogs | To deteriorate/degenerate |
| 229. | Go to rack and ruin | To decay or get destroyed |
| 230. | Good Samaritan | A person who helps and pays sympathy to those in distress |
| 231. | Grass widow | A woman who is separated, divorced or lives apart from her husband |
| 232. | Grease the palm | To bribe |
| 233. | Green room | A lounge in a theatre or studio for the performers to get ready |
| 234. | Grist to one’s | Something that can be used for one’s advantages |
| 235. | Gung ho | Extremely excited |
| 236. | Halcyons days | Peaceful days |
| 237. | Hammer and sickle | A symbolic representation of communism in general madman |
| 238. | Hammer and tongs | To do something with great energy |
| 239. | Hand and glove with | In close co-operation |
| 240. | Hang by a thread | Be in a risky situation |
| 241. | Hard nut to crack m | A difficult problem to solve / a person difficult to understand |
| 242. | Hard and fast rules | Strict rules |
| 243. | Haul over the coals | To take to task, to reprimand |
| 244. | Have a big mouth | To gossips more or tells secret |
| 245. | Have finger | To be involved in something |
| 246. | Have one’s hand full | To be completely occupied |
| 247. | Have one’s way | The way one wants |
| 248. | Have several iron in the fire | To be involved in many project or activities at the same time |
| 249. | Hem and haw around | To be evasive |
| 250. | Head on | In a very direct manner |
| 251. | Heart bleed | Feel genuine sympathy for someone |
| 252. | Hen-pecked husband | Admirer of one’s own wife in a servile manner |
| 253. | Herculean task | Task requiring tremendous effort |
| 254. | Heart in the right place | Good natured |
| 256. | High and dry | In a deprived situation (alone) |
| 257. | High hand | Overbearing |
| 258. | High living | Living with comfort and ease |
| 259. | Hit below the belt | To strike unfairly |
| 260. | Hit the jackpot | Gaining a big/ great success (specially by luck) |
| 261. | Hit the nail on the head | To do the right thing at the right time |
| 262. | Hobson’s choice | No alternatives |
| 263. | Hole and corner policy | Secret policy |
| 264. | Hold no water | Not correct or true |
| 265. | Hold someone to leash | To restrain |
| 266. | Hoping against hope | Without hope |
| 267. | Hue and cry | Any loud public outcry |
| 268. | Hush money | Money given to someone to keep something secret |
| 269. | Hush – hush | Very secret |
| 270. | In a fix | In difficulty |
| 271. | In a flutter | Excited |
| 272. | In a way | Hopeful |
| 273. | In cahoots | To conspiracy with someone |
| 274. | In no time | Very quickly indeed |
| 275. | In a fog | Confused, not able to understand |
| 276. | In a nutshell | In very brief form |
| 277. | In black and white | In printed or written form |
| 278. | In full swing | At the height of activity |
| 279. | In the blues | In dumps depressed |
| 280. | In the long run | Ultimately |
| 281. | In the nick of the time | At the last possible moment |
| 282. | In the same boat | Sharing the same problems |
| 283. | In vogue | In the current fashions |
| 284. | Ins and outs | Intricacies or complications / full detail |
| 285. | Iron hand/ iron fist | Rigorous control |
| 286. | Itching palm | Craving forbribe |
| 287. | Itsy bitsy | Very small or tiny |
| 288. | Jack of all trades and master of none | A person knows many different kinds of work but is a master of none |
| 289. | Jail word | A person who is or has been confined in jail |
| 290. | Jaundice eye | To look at a conclusion prematurely |
| 291. | Kangaroo’s court | Illegal court |
| 292. | Keep one’s cards close to one’s chest | Hiding something |
| 293. | Keep ones eye on the ball | Be ready for something |
| 294. | Keep one’s finger crosses | To wait expectantly |
| 295. | Keep one’s word | To keep one’s promises |
| 296. | Keep the ball rolling | To maintain the progress of a project or plan |
| 297. | Keep one’s pot boiling | Earn hardly enough for living |
| 298. | Keep someone under thumb | To keep someone under one’s control |
| 299. | Keep the wolf from the door | To avert poverty/ starvation |
| 300. | Kill two birds with one stone | Doing two things at the same time whileeffort is made for one |
| 301. | Kith and kin | Blood relation/Nepotism |
| 302. | Knit one’s brow | To frown |
| 303. | Lady’s man | A man who is fond of the company of women |
| 304. | Lame excuse | False excuse/baseless excuse |
| 305. | Latin and greek | Unable to understand |
| 306. | Left-handed complement | An insult disguise as a compliment |
| 307. | Lion’s share | Large part |
| 308. | Live in an ivory tower | Living in comfort and being unaware of realities of other’s miseries |
| 309. | Live wire | Energetic |
| 310. | Loaves and fishes | Material benefit |
| 311. | Look of colours | Look ill or unhealthy |
| 312. | Look through coloured glasses | To see with different |
| 313. | Lady killer | Man who is very attractive to women |
| 314. | Laying off | Dismissal from jobs of |
| 315. | Laugh one’s head off | Laugh heartily |
| 316. | Laughing stock | One who is ridiculed |
| 317. | Lump in the throat | A tight or uncomfortable feeling in throat due to emotions |
| 318. | Mad as a march hare | Crazy and insane |
| 319. | Make a clean breast of | To tell the truth about something especially something bad or illegal you have done or you do not |
| 320. | Make up one’s mind | Decide |
| 321. | Maiden name | A woman’s surname before marriage |
| 322. | Maiden speech | First speech |
| 323. | Make a hash | To mess up |
| 324. | Make a mountain out of a mole hill | To exaggerate a minor difficulty |
| 325. | Make both ends meet | To live within one’s means |
| 326. | Make hay while the sun shines | To take the benefit of an opportunity |
| 327. | Make or mar | To make or destroy |
| 328. | Make the best of both the worlds | Getting benefited from both the sides |
| 329. | Make a dry face | To show disappointment |
| 330. | Make a bee line for | To go directly towards something |
| 331. | Make a clean breast of | To confess without resource |
| 332. | Make up one’s mind | To decide |
| 333. | Man of means | A wealthy man |
| 334. | Man of iron | Man with strong will-power |
| 335. | Man of letter | Learned person |
| 336. | Man of parts | A man of qualities |
| 337. | Man of spirit | A man full of enthusiasm |
| 338. | Man of straw | A weak person or idea that is easy to defeat |
| 339. | Man of the world | An experienced person |
| 340. | Man of word | True to one’s word or promises |
| 341. | Man of God | A male priest |
| 342. | Match made in heaven | A happy and harmonious marriage or partnership |
| 343. | Mare’s nest | A false invention/rumour |
| 344. | Mealy mouthed | Soft-spoken |
| 345. | Midas touch | A man with extraordinary powers |
| 346. | Mince matters | To moderate or restrain one’s language |
| 347. | Mind one’s P’s and Q’s | Taking care of behaviour properly |
| 348. | Miss the beat | To lose an opportunity |
| 349. | Monkey around | To waste time here and there |
| 350. | Mother wit | Common sense |
| 351. | Move heaven and earth | Try one’s best |
| 352. | Make one’s mark | Become famous, well known |
| 353. | Milk of human kindness | Good feelings towards others |
| 354. | Made of money | Very wealthy |
| 355. | Man of/in the street | Ordinary, average person |
| 356. | Make head or tail | Understand |
| 357. | Meet one’s waterloo | Make one feel terrified, horrified |
| 358. | Much cry and little wool | Lots of fanfare for something which have very little importance |
| 359. | Muddle-head | Stupid |
| 360. | Narrow escape / close shave | To escape by a little margin |
| 361. | Neck and crop | Completely |
| 362. | Nig-nag | A noun used to address someone (with jock and furnace) |
| 363. | Nine day’s wonder | Something that arouses great interest but for a very short period |
| 364. | Not bat an eyelid | Not to show any shock, worry or surprise |
| 365. | Null and void | Ineffective |
| 366. | Nurse and grudge | Bear resentment for long period |
| 367. | Oily tongue | Flattering words |
| 368. | Old flames die hard | Difficult to forget old things |
| 369. | On one’s guard | Vigilant, careful |
| 370. | On one’s last legs | Close to collapsing |
| 371. | Once for all | For the last time / conclusively |
| 372. | Out of sorts | Unwell, slightly ill |
| 373. | Out of the question | Impossible |
| 374. | Out of the way | Strange |
| 375. | Out of the wood | Free from difficulties and danger |
| 376. | Once in a blue moon | Very seldom |
| 377. | Once and for all | With finality |
| 378. | Open question | A question which may have more than one answer |
| 379. | Open secret | That many people know about but that is supposed to be a secret |
| 380. | Palmy days | Prosperous / affluent days |
| 381. | Pandora’s box | A source of extensive but unforeseen troubles |
| 382. | Part and parcel | Inseparable part |
| 383. | Past master | An expert |
| 384. | Pay off old scores | Take revenge |
| 385. | Pay the piper | To bear the cost of something/some service rendered |
| 386. | Pay through his nose | To pay dearly |
| 387. | Penny wise pound foolish | Careful about trifles but wasteful in large venture |
| 388. | Pin one’s ears | back Listen carefully |
| 389. | Pick someone’s brains | To ask someone for advice, suggestions and information about, something they know about |
| 390. | Pick up the gauntlet | To accept the challenge |
| 391. | Pied Piper | A leader who makes irresponsible promises |
| 392. | Play duck and drakes | To waste money |
| 393. | Play second fiddle | To be at a subordinate position |
| 394. | Play truant | To be absent from duty without permission |
| 395. | Poison someone ears | To speak against one to another |
| 396. | Poke one’s nose | To interfere |
| 397. | Past master | Adept/ skilled |
| 398. | Pour oil on troubled water | To pacify the matters |
| 399. | Pros and cons | To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages |
| 400. | Pull one’s legs | To make fun of or to tease |
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