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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