601-700 Flashcards

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Find yourself in troubled waters

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In a difficult situation or time

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Finding their feet

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Beginning to understand the work and feeling confident

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Finish with something

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To complete something

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Fire in one’s belly

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Strong determination to auccess

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5
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Fire the imagination

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To make someone feel very interested in something and excited about it

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First and foremost

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Highest priority

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Fit like a glove

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To fit perfectly

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Flash in the pan

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Someone or something whose success or popularity is short lived

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Flea market

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A place where antiques and second hand goods are sold

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10
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Flex one’s muscles

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Make a show of one’s strength

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Fly into a rage/passion

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To become extremely angry

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Fly off at a tangent

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Start discussing something irrelevant/ change the subject immediately

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Fly the nest

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Children leaving their parents’ home to live on their own

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Flying high

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Very successful

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15
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Flying off the handle

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To lose one’s temper

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Follow his nose

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To go straight ahead

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17
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Follow suit

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To do as others have done

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18
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Foot the bill

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To pay for something

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19
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Fir better or worse

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Under any circumstances

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20
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For good

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Permanently / forever

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21
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For keeps

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Forever

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22
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For old times’s sake

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in memory of former times

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23
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Forty winks

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A short nap during day

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Fought to the bitter end

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Carried on a contest regardless of the consequences

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Foul play
Unfair or dishonest behaviour
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Four corners of the earth
From all parts of the world
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From far and wide
From all directions
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From rags to riches
To go from poor to being very rich
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From scratch
From the beginning
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From stem to stern
from one end of something to the other
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From the bottom of my heart
Sincerely
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Full of beans
Full of energy
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Full of hot air
Full of nonsense
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Full of sound and fury
loud and angry words that are ineffective and don't achieve anything useful.
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Full steam ahead
Move onward with determination
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Gall and wormwood
Hateful
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Game is up
Deception is at an end
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Gate crasher
Uninvited guest
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Gave away
distributed
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Gave the game away
Gave out the secret
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Gave vent to something
to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way किसी पर भड़ास निकालना
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Gear up for
Get ready for
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Gerrymander
In a manipulative or unfair way
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Get a foot in the door
To have a chance to do something
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Get a gold star
To earn a merit point for doing well
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Get a second wind
Have renewed energy after having been tired
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Get a taste of your own medicine
To be given the same treatment that you have given to others
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Get away
To leave
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Get cracking
To start doing something
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Get down to brass tacks
to start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something. मूल मुद्दों पर विचार करना.
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Get into a scrape
Involved in a problem
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Get into a soup
To make things difficult
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Get into hot water
To get into trouble
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Get mixed up
Get confused
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Get off on the wrong foot
To start a relationship or activity badly
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Get on like a house on fire
To become friends quickly
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Get on somebody's nerves
To be irritant / annoying
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Get one's dander up
Lose one's temper
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Get one's ducks in a row
Have everything properly organized
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Get out of hand
To become uncontrollable/ out of control
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Get someone's goat
To irritate someone
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Get something off one's chest
Express something that has been worrying you and you want to say
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Get the axe
Lose the job
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Get the hang of
learn how to use
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Get the message
Understand what is implied by a remark or action
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Get the picture
To understand what's happening
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Get the sack
Be dismissed
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Get the upper hand
To get an advantage
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Get up on the wrong side of bed
Start the day in bad mood which continues all day long
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Get wind of something
Hear about something
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Get your act together
Organize your work in a better way
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Get your money's worth
To pay and get something for good value
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Get your own way
Persuade other people to let you do what you want
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Gets in his teacher's hair
Annoy his teachers
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Getting a new lease of life
A chance to continue living or to become successful again
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Getting in everyone's hair
To annoy them
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Gift of the gab
someone has the ability to speak easily and confidently in a way that makes people want to listen and believe them.
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Give a free hand
Complete liberty
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Give a piece of one's mind
Scolding
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Give a wide berth to
To stay away
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Give and take
Adjustment (आपसी समझौता)
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Give in
हार मानना
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Give it a shot/whirl
To try out something
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Give me a hand with
Help me with
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Give oneself airs
Pretend to be good
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Give somebody a ring
Call someone on the telephone
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Give someone the cold shoulder
To avoid or be unfriendly towards someone
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Give someone the slip
Escape from someone
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Give the benefits of doubt
Regards someone as innocent until proven otherwise
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Give up
Stop doing something
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Give up the ghost
To die / to stop working
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Give way
Collapsed
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Giving a false alarm
A situation in which people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen
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Gansh your teeth
Express rage (gussa hona)
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Go against the grain
Doing things differently from what you usually do
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Go at equal speed
Keep up with
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Go belly up
Go bankrupt
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Go bonkers
Become crazy
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Go cold turkey
To quit an addictive habit abruptly and completely
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Go down in flames
Fail completely