501-600 Flashcards by Sagar Dalal

Dance attendance on someone

Obey or serve someone attentively and eagerly

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Dance to someone’s tune

Do what others want you to do

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Day and night

Continuously

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Dead heat

Close contest that ends in a tie

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Dead in the water

No chance of succeeding or making any progress

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Dead ringer

An exact duplicate

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Dead set against

Disapproved

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Deadlock

A state in which progress is impossible

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Deep pockets

A lot of money

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Desperate times call for desperate measures

when faced with a difficult situation, you may need to take extreme actions that you would not normally consider

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Die in a dog’s death

A dishonorable or shameful death

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Die hard

Unwilling to change

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Died in harness

Died while working

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Dig around

Investigate

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Dig up dirt on someone

Discover damaging information about someone

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Do a good turn

To help someone

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Do a roaring trade

Highly successful

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Do away with

To abolish

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Do or die

To make a final effort

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Dodge a bullet

To narrowly avoid situation

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Dog eat dog

Ruthlessly competitive

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Dog in a manner

Selfish

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Don’t judge a book by it’s cover

We should not judge something primarily by it’s outward appearance

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Done for

Ruined

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Donkey's years

A very long time

Don't count your chickens before they hatch

Don't make plans based on events that have not yet happened

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Don't put all your resources in one place

Dot one's i's and cross one's t's

Be detailed and exact paying details to minute details of a task

Down and out

Without money

Down in the dumps

Sad and depressed

Down in the mouth

To be depressed

Down the drain

Wasted or lost

Down the tubes

Failing completely

Down to earth

Practical and direct

Draconian law

Extremely severe law

Drag one's feet

Do something deliberately at a slow pace (टाल मटोल करना)

Draw a blank

To be unsuccessful

Draw a line

To fix a limit

Draw first blood

Be the first one to score or take advantage against an opponent

Dressed to kill

Dressed to attract attraction

Dressing down

Give a scolding

Drew on his fancy

Used his imagination

Drive home

To emphasize an important point

Drive someone up the wall

Make someone very irritated or angry

Drop in

Pay a casual visit

Drop names

Name famous people to impress others (Hinting at high connections)

Dropping like flies

Collapsing in large numbers

Dust and ashes

Something that is very disappointing

Eager beaver

A keen and enthusiastic person

Eagle eye

An eye with sharp visual powers

Ease somebody's mind

Alleviate someone's anxiety (मन को शांत करना)

Easier said than done

Be more easily talked about than put into practice

Easy money

Make money without much effort (maybe illegally)

Eat anyone's salt

To be one's guest

Eats like a horse

Eats a lot of food

Egg on

Encourage

Elbow grease

A lot of physical effort

Elbow room

To give enough space to move or work in

Ended in a fiasco

A complete failure

Enough rope

Enough freedom for action

Evening of life

Old age

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every unpleasant situation has a positive side

Every dog has his day

Everyone has good luck or success at a point of time in their lives

Every inch a gentleman

Complete gentleman

Evil twin

a person or thing that is a malicious or negative counterpart of another person or thing

Excuse my French

apologising for using offensive language

Explore all avenues

Try out every possibility to get a result

Eye wash

A deception (धोखा)

Face the music

To bear the consequences

Face to face

With another person in their presence

Face up to

To accept a difficult situation

Faint hearted

Timid

Fair weather friends

Friends in good times

Fair's fair

Just treatment

Fall back on

to use something, especially a form of financial support, when other things have failed

Fall flat

Unsuccessful

Fall for

Tu be tricked or fooled

Fall foul of

Quarreling with

Fall into line

Adhere to rules

Fall short

To not reach a particular level

Falling head over heels

Falling deeply in love with someone

Fall out

Stop being friendly after an argument

Familiarity breeds contempt

The better you know someone the less you like him

Far cry from

To be very different from others

Feast one's eyes on

Gaze at something with pleasure

Feather in one's cap

A new and additional distinction

Feather one's own nest

To profit in a dishonest way

Fed up

Annoyed

Feel blue

Feeling sad/depressed

Feel his pulse

Find his views

Feel the pinch

Having financial problems all of a sudden

Fell back

Turned back

Fell foul of

Got in trouble with

Fell through

Failed

Few and far between

Not frequent/ rare seen

Fifth wheel

An un needed person

Fight fire with fire

To fight against an opponent by using the same methods or weapon that the opponent uses

Fight shy of me

Try to avoid something

Fight your own battles

To try to overcome challenges without help from anyone else

Figure out

Finally understood