IDIOMS Flashcards

1
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A fair crack of whip

A

Period of importantance

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2
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To hold something in leash

A

To restrain

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3
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To wrangle over an ass shadow

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Quarrel over trifles

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4
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To play fast and loose

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To hurt someone’s feelings

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5
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All agog

A

Restless

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6
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To give up the ghost

A

To die

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7
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To snap one’s finger

A

To be anxious

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8
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A pipe dream

A

Impractical plan

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9
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To loose one’s head

A

Confused and over excited

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10
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By the skin of one’s teeth

A

Only just

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11
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To throw one’s glow

A

Give challenge

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12
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To be in abeyance

A

In suspense

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13
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A chip off old block

A

Characteristics from ancestors

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14
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To take people by storm

A

To captive term unexpectedly

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15
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To throw up a sponge

A

To give up

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16
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Harp on

A

Keep talking

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17
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To catch somebody on the hop to

A

Catch somebody of guard

18
Q

To spell the beans

A

To reveal the secret

19
Q

To bring one’s egg to bad market

A

To fail in one’s plan bcz one goes to the wrong ppl for help

20
Q

To get cold feet

A

To be afraid

21
Q

To take leap in the dark

A

To do hazardous things without any idea of the result

22
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To give get/ give the bird

A

To send away

23
Q

To be at draggers drawn

A

To be bitter enemy

24
Q

To save one’s face

A

To evade disgrace

25
Q

To split hours

A

To indulge in overdefined arguments

26
Q

A lady’s man

A

A lover of woman company

27
Q

Will O’ the wisp

A

Anything which eludes or deceives

28
Q

To get into scrape

A

To find oneself in an awkward predicament

29
Q

To fly off the handle

A

To lose one’s temper

30
Q

To blaze trail

A

Initiate work in a movement

31
Q

To be lost on the cloud

A

To be perplexed

32
Q

Hush money

A

Bribe paid to secure silence

33
Q

A tall order

A

A task difficult to perform

34
Q

To draw bead upon

A

To take aim at

35
Q

All and sundry

A

Everything without distinction

36
Q

To disabuse one’s mind

A

To remove a misampprehension

37
Q

To temp Providence

A

To take reckless risks

38
Q

To accept the gauntlet

A

To suffer humiliation

39
Q

French leave

A

Absence without permission

40
Q

Take the edge off

A

Reduce the intensity