English Grammar – Idiom and Phrases 8 (SSC CGL)

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1. In tatters – Ruined
2. At a rate of knots – Sluggishly
3. Raise somebody’s hackle – To make somebody angry
4. A bread and butter letter – An appointment letter
5. Take up the cudgels – To support somebody
6. As the crow flies – In a straight line
7. With in an ace of – falling, escaping by a narrow margin
8. To play the ape – To mimic,
9. to imitate to go ape over – To be extremely enthusiastic over
10. In the arms of Morpheus – In the lap of sleep
11. No vie like avarice – Greed is greater than any other vice
12. To get the axe – To be dismissed from a job
13. A man before the mast – A common sailor
14. All the better to – Same to
15. To back side – To fall back in morals
16. To back spear – To question in order to bring out some information
17. On the ball – Alert ,competent
18. To forbid the banns – To object the banns
19. To sell one a bargain – To befool someone
20. To have a bash at – To attempt something for the first time
21. To have bats in one’s belfry – To have crazy ideas , to be very peculiar or foolish
22. To be at one’s beds – To worship
23. To tell one’s beads – To day ones prayer
24. To bear away the palm – To win
25. A bear garden – A place or scene of tumult
26. Narrow bed – Grave
27. To bill and coo – To whisper endearments as lovers
28. To make one’s bow – To appear first time in publically
29. To brace oneself for – To prepare for something unpleasant or difficult
30. Brain sauce – Wisdom
31. Bread and cheese – Simple food
32. As snug as a bug in the rug – Very cosy and snug
33. On the bum – Living the life of a tramp
34. To bury one’s head in the sand – To avoid the reality
35. To mean business – To be serious
36. To care a damn/farthing – To have no care at all
37. To carry with one – To satisfy
38. A cast of the eye – A squint
39. To cast into the shade – To make less noticeable
40. To catch/clutch at a straw – To try any expedient however useless
41. To cast a chill over – To spread sadness
42. To serve with the colours – To be a member of the armed forces
43. To condemn to death – To award punishment of death
44. A gone coon – One whose case is hopeless
45. Till the cows come home – For a long time
46. To cross one’s mind – To occur , strike
47. To cry Halves – To claim with equal share
48. To cry stinking fish – To decry one’s own good
49. To cry shame upon – To oppose, to protest against
50. Off the cuff – Imparting information ,
51. on credit in one’s cup – Under the influence of liquor
52. To cut somebody down – To kill somebody
53. To go to the devil – To fail completely
54. To die in shoes – To be murdered
55. A dog’s chance – No hope at all
56. To eat one’s terms – To study for the bar(law)
57. To bid fair – reTo seem likely
58. To fall aboard of – To start fighting/ quarrelling
59. To fall foul of – To quarrel
60. To chew the fat – To chat
61. To kill the fatted calf – To celebrate especially at a prodigal’s return
62. To ruffle somebody’s feather – To annoy somebody
63. To feel in one’s bone – To know or sense some thing intuitively
64. To snap one’s finger (at) – To show contempt for
65. To fish in troubled water – To try to win advantages for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs, to take advantage of troubled or uncertain conditions for personal gain
66. To get into a flap – To be in a state of agitation , confusion, nervous, excitement etc.
67. The flesh – Physical or bodily desires , sensual appetites
68. To fly in the face of – To act in defiance of authority , facts , custom
69. To be nobody’s fool – To be wise
70. To fool around – To waste time