51 IMPORTANT IDIOMS AND PHRASES LIST 🔰

☛ A dime a dozen – Anything that is common and easy to get

☛Between the cup and the lips – On the point of achievement

☛ Blue blood – Member of high class society

☛ A damp squib – Complete failure

☛ Head Over Heels – Very excited

☛ An iron hand – By force

☛ An eyewash – A pretence

☛ At the drop of a hat – Willing to do something immediately

☛ At one’s wits end – In a state where one does not know what to do

☛Burn the midnight oil – Work or study hard

☛Hand over fist – Quickly and continuously

☛At daggers drawn – Bitterly hostile

☛All at sea – State of confusion

☛To play ducks and drakes – To act foolishly or inconsistently

☛To bell the cat – To face the risk

☛At sixes and seven – Persons who are having different opinions

☛Feather one’s own nest – Make money unfairly

☛Turn over a new leaf – Change for the better

☛Tooth and nail – With all one’s power

☛Smell a rat – Suspect something foul

☛At one’s beck and call – Under his control

☛Bolt from the blue – A complete surprise

☛With flying colors – Doing exceptionally well

☛Stick to one’s guns – Stick to one’s guns

☛Hard and fast – Very strict

☛Beat around the bush – Avoid coming to the point

☛Chew the cud – Ponder over something

☛Kick the bucket – Die

☛Spill the beans – To disclose a secret

☛By leaps and bounds – Rapidly

☛Ever and anon – Now and then, occasionally

☛Bone of contention – Cause of an argument

☛A man of straw – A weak person

☛Golden handshake – A big sum of money given to a person when he/she leaves a company or retires

☛To die in harness – To die while in duty

☛Add fuel to the fire – To aggravate the situation

☛Be on cloud nine – Very happy

☛A bolt from the blue – Something unexpected

☛Know the ropes – To understand the details

☛To give vent to – Express

☛Jump the bandwagon – Jump the bandwagon

☛Cry over spilled milk – Complaining about a loss or failure from the past

☛A mare’s nest – A false invention

☛Behind closed doors – Doing something secretly

☛Come hell or high water – Possible obstacles in your path

☛Back to Square One – To go back to the beginning

☛Blessing in disguise – Something good and useful that did not initially seem that way

☛Icing on the cake – Something that turns good into great

☛Cost an arm and a leg – Be very expensive

☛Up in Arms – Very angry

☛Black and blue – Full of Bruises