701-800 Flashcards
Go down like a lead balloon
To be recieved badly by an audience
Go dutch
Divide the costs
Go easy on something
Use only a small amount of
Go for a song
To be sold cheaply
Go for the jugular
Attack in the most aggressive way
Go getter
someone who is very energetic, determined to be successful
Go haywire
Became out of control
Go off
Stop working
Go over
Review
Go the extra mile
to make an extra effort
Go through a rough patch
To experience problems
Go through fire and water
To experience many dangers in order to achieve something
Go through the roof
Rise very high
Go to rack and ruin
Destroyed
Go to the dogs
To be ruined
Go to the wall
To fail
Go with the flow
Do what others are doing
Go/start with a bang
To start in a very exciting and noticeable way
God’s acre
A cemetry beside a church
कब्रिस्तान
God’s ape
A born fool
Goes about
Goes around
Going over one’s head
Beyond one’s capacity to understand
Got down to business
Began to work seriously
Got on well
Had a friendly relation
Got the green light
Got permission to go ahead with something
Grasp at straws
Desperate attempt to success
सफलता के लिए हाथ पैर मारना
Grease the palm
To bribe someone
Great minds think alike
Said when two people have the same opinion or make the same choice
Green thumb
To have a natural interest in gardening
Green eyed
To be jealous
Grin/beam from ear to ear
To smile a lot because of happiness
Grist to the mill
Useful to somebody
Hadn’t a leg to stand on
Did not have much hope of getting it
Halcyon days
Peaceful/happy days
Hale and hearty
Strong and healthy
Half a loaf is better than no bread
It’s better to get less than what you want than getting nothing
Hand in glove / hand and glove
In close association
घनिष्ठ सम्बन्ध
Hand in hand
Together
Hand over fist
Quickly and continuously
Handle with kid gloves
To treat someone with extreme care
Hands down
Easily and without doubt
Hang in the balance
Remains undecided
Hang in there
Don’t give up
Hang on every word
Listen very carefully
Hang one’s head
To be ashamed
Hang up one’s boots
To take retirement from a sport
Hanging by a thread/hair
Be in a dangerous situation
Hard and fast
Fixed (cannot be altered)
Hard cash
Notes and coins as opposed to cheques and ATM cards
Hard of hearing
To be deaf/ partially deaf
Hard to swallow
Difficult to believe
Has a face like thunder
Very angry
Haste makes waste
Doing things in a hurry does not give fruitful resuts
Haul over the coals
To scold someone severely for an error
Have a bash
To make an attempt
Have a bee in her bonnet
To be obsessed with something and can’t stop thinking about it
Have a bone to pick with somebody
Disagree or be annoyed with someone
Have a chip on one’s shoulder
To be upset for something that happened in the past
Have a finger in every pie
To be involved in large and varied number of activites
Have a foot in the grave
Be close to death
Have a good run
to get a lot of success or pleasure from something that was never going to last forever
Have a long face
Look unhappy or disappointed
Have a narrow escape
Just manage to avoid danger or trouble
Have a whale of a time
Have an exceptionally fun or exciting experience
Have an axe to grind
To have a private reason for doing or being involved in something
Have an ox on the tongue
Bribed to remain silent
Have ants in one’s pants
to not be able to keep still because you are very excited or worried about something
Have bigger/other fish to fry
Some more important work to attend
Have green fingers
To be good at gardening
Have one’s hands full
To be very busy
Have one’s heart in one’s mouth
To be extremely frightened and nervous
Have the ball at your feet
To be in the best position to do something
Have the last laugh
To be victorious at the end of the argument
Have them rolling in the aisles
Make an audience laugh uncontrollably
Have your back to/against the wall
Be in a difficult situation from where escape is difficult
Have your heart set on something
To want something very much
Having a soft spot
To like someone a lot
He who laughs last laugh lodest
He who focused on winning in the long term is successful
Head in the clouds
To daydream
Head over heels
Madly in love
Heads with roll
Dismissed or forced to resign
Hear someone out
Let someone complete what they are saying
Hear something through the grapevine
to learn information about someone through gossip or rumors
Heart and soul
With all the efforts you can put
Heart in the right place
someone has good intentions and cares about others
अच्छी नीयत होना
Heart to heart talk
a serious conversation between two people, in which they talk honestly about their feelings
Hearts go out to
To feel sympathy for someone when they are distressed
Held up
Delayed
Helter skelter
In disorderly haste
Herculean task
Very difficult task
High and dry
Neglected
High and low
Everywhere
High and mighty
Arrogant
High handed
Using power or authority in an arrogant or excessive way
High on the hog
To live in luxurious or costly way
High time
Past the appropriate time
Himalayan blunder
Grave error
His blood ran cold
He was frightened
Hit a bad patch
Experienced difficulty
Hit a brick wall
Not able to make any progress
