601-700 Flashcards

1
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Find yourself in troubled waters

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In a difficult situation or time

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2
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Finding their feet

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Beginning to understand the work and feeling confident

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3
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Finish with something

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To complete something

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4
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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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6
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First and foremost

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Highest priority

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7
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Fit like a glove

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To fit perfectly

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8
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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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9
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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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11
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Fly into a rage/passion

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To become extremely angry

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12
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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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13
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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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14
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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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16
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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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24
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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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25
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Foul play

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Unfair or dishonest behaviour

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26
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Four corners of the earth

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From all parts of the world

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27
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From far and wide

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From all directions

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28
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From rags to riches

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To go from poor to being very rich

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29
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From scratch

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From the beginning

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30
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From stem to stern

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from one end of something to the other

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31
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From the bottom of my heart

A

Sincerely

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32
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Full of beans

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Full of energy

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33
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Full of hot air

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Full of nonsense

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34
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Full of sound and fury

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loud and angry words that are ineffective and don’t achieve anything useful.

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35
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Full steam ahead

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Move onward with determination

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36
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Gall and wormwood

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Hateful

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37
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Game is up

A

Deception is at an end

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38
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Gate crasher

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Uninvited guest

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39
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Gave away

A

distributed

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40
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Gave the game away

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Gave out the secret

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41
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Gave vent to something

A

to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way

किसी पर भड़ास निकालना

42
Q

Gear up for

A

Get ready for

43
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Gerrymander

A

In a manipulative or unfair way

44
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Get a foot in the door

A

To have a chance to do something

45
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Get a gold star

A

To earn a merit point for doing well

46
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Get a second wind

A

Have renewed energy after having been tired

47
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Get a taste of your own medicine

A

To be given the same treatment that you have given to others

48
Q

Get away

49
Q

Get cracking

A

To start doing something

50
Q

Get down to brass tacks

A

to start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something.
मूल मुद्दों पर विचार करना.

51
Q

Get into a scrape

A

Involved in a problem

52
Q

Get into a soup

A

To make things difficult

53
Q

Get into hot water

A

To get into trouble

54
Q

Get mixed up

A

Get confused

55
Q

Get off on the wrong foot

A

To start a relationship or activity badly

56
Q

Get on like a house on fire

A

To become friends quickly

57
Q

Get on somebody’s nerves

A

To be irritant / annoying

58
Q

Get one’s dander up

A

Lose one’s temper

59
Q

Get one’s ducks in a row

A

Have everything properly organized

60
Q

Get out of hand

A

To become uncontrollable/ out of control

61
Q

Get someone’s goat

A

To irritate someone

62
Q

Get something off one’s chest

A

Express something that has been worrying you and you want to say

63
Q

Get the axe

A

Lose the job

64
Q

Get the hang of

A

learn how to use

65
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Get the message

A

Understand what is implied by a remark or action

66
Q

Get the picture

A

To understand what’s happening

67
Q

Get the sack

A

Be dismissed

68
Q

Get the upper hand

A

To get an advantage

69
Q

Get up on the wrong side of bed

A

Start the day in bad mood which continues all day long

70
Q

Get wind of something

A

Hear about something

71
Q

Get your act together

A

Organize your work in a better way

72
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Get your money’s worth

A

To pay and get something for good value

73
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Get your own way

A

Persuade other people to let you do what you want

74
Q

Gets in his teacher’s hair

A

Annoy his teachers

75
Q

Getting a new lease of life

A

A chance to continue living or to become successful again

76
Q

Getting in everyone’s hair

A

To annoy them

77
Q

Gift of the gab

A

someone has the ability to speak easily and confidently in a way that makes people want to listen and believe them.

78
Q

Give a free hand

A

Complete liberty

79
Q

Give a piece of one’s mind

80
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Give a wide berth to

A

To stay away

81
Q

Give and take

A

Adjustment (आपसी समझौता)

82
Q

Give in

A

हार मानना

83
Q

Give it a shot/whirl

A

To try out something

84
Q

Give me a hand with

A

Help me with

85
Q

Give oneself airs

A

Pretend to be good

86
Q

Give somebody a ring

A

Call someone on the telephone

87
Q

Give someone the cold shoulder

A

To avoid or be unfriendly towards someone

88
Q

Give someone the slip

A

Escape from someone

89
Q

Give the benefits of doubt

A

Regards someone as innocent until proven otherwise

90
Q

Give up

A

Stop doing something

91
Q

Give up the ghost

A

To die / to stop working

92
Q

Give way

93
Q

Giving a false alarm

A

A situation in which people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen

94
Q

Gansh your teeth

A

Express rage (gussa hona)

95
Q

Go against the grain

A

Doing things differently from what you usually do

96
Q

Go at equal speed

A

Keep up with

97
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Go belly up

A

Go bankrupt

98
Q

Go bonkers

A

Become crazy

99
Q

Go cold turkey

A

To quit an addictive habit abruptly and completely

100
Q

Go down in flames

A

Fail completely