501-600 Flashcards
Dance attendance on someone
Obey or serve someone attentively and eagerly
Dance to someone’s tune
Do what others want you to do
Day and night
Continuously
Dead heat
Close contest that ends in a tie
Dead in the water
No chance of succeeding or making any progress
Dead ringer
An exact duplicate
Dead set against
Disapproved
Deadlock
A state in which progress is impossible
Deep pockets
A lot of money
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
Die in a dog’s death
A dishonorable or shameful death
Die hard
Unwilling to change
Died in harness
Died while working
Dig around
Investigate
Dig up dirt on someone
Discover damaging information about someone
Do a good turn
To help someone
Do a roaring trade
Highly successful
Do away with
To abolish
Do or die
To make a final effort
Dodge a bullet
To narrowly avoid situation
Dog eat dog
Ruthlessly competitive
Dog in a manner
Selfish
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover
We should not judge something primarily by it’s outward appearance
Done for
Ruined
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
