English Grammar – Idiom and Phrases 1 (SSC CGL)

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1. A fair crack of the whip – A period of importance
2. To hold something in leash – To restrain
3. To wrangle over an ass’s shadow – To quarrels over trifles
4. To play fast and loose – To hurt some body’s feelings /to play tricks
5. All agog – Restless
6. to give up the ghost – To die
7. To snap one’s fingers – To be anxious
8. A pipe dream – An impractical plan
9. To stand to one’s guns – To perseverance when hardships press
10. To loose one’s head – To become confused and over exited
11. By the skin of one’s teeth – Only just
12. To throw one’s glove – To give a challenge
13. To be in abeyance – In suspense
14. A chip off the old block – Characteristics of one’s ancestors
15. To take people by storm – To captive tem unexpectedly
16. To throw up the sponge – To surrender or give up the contest
17. Harp on – To keep on talking
18. To catch somebody on the hop to – To catch somebody of guard
19. To spell the beans – To reveal secret information
20. To bring one’s egg to a bad market – To fail in one’s plan because one goes to the wrong people for help
21. To get cold feet – To be afraid
22. To take a leap in the dark – To do a hazardous thing without any idea of the result
23. To give get/give the bird – To send away
24. To be at daggers drawn – To be bitter enemy
25. To save one’s face – to evade disgrace
26. To spilt hours – To indulge in over-refined arguments
27. A lady’s man – A lover of woman company
28. Will o’ the wisp – Anything which eludes or deceives
29. To get into scrape – To find oneself in an awkward predicament
30. To fly off the handle – To lose one’s temper
31. To blaze trail – To initiate work in a movement
32. To be lost in the cloud – To be perplexed
33. Hush money – Bribe paid to secure silence
34. A tall order – A task difficult to perform
35. To draw bead upon – To take aim at
36. All and sundry – Everything without distinction
37. To disabuse one’s mind – To remove a misapprehension
38. To temp providence – To take reckless risks
39. To accept the gauntlet – To suffer humiliation
40. French leave – Absence without permission
41. To have brush with – To have a slight encounter
42. To pull one’s socks up – To try hard
43. Within an ace of – Narrowly
44. To blow hot and clod – To be inconsistent
45. To give chapter and verse for a thing – To produce the proof of something
46. To beggars’ description Beyond one’s power – to describe adequately
47. To plough the sands – To busy oneself in a way which cannot lead to any profitable result
48. Foar in the mouth – To be furious
49. To take umbrage – To be offended
50. Something up one’s sleeve – A secret plan Adam’s ale Water
51. To draw the long bow – To make and exaggerated statement
52. To fight to the bitter end – To carry on a contest regardless of consequences
53. Queer somebody’s pitch – Upset one’s plan
54. To make the grade – To come out successful
55. To be up and doing – To be actively engaged
56. To see eye to eye with – To agree
57. A jaundiced eye – prejudice
58. To see red – To find fault with
59. To rip up with old sores – To revive a quarrel which was almost forgotten
60. To carry off the bell – To bag the first position
61. To live in clover – To live in great comfort and luxury
62. Pin-money Allowance made – to a lady for her expenses
63. Get down to brass tracks Begin – to talk in plain, straight forward terms
64. Spick and span – Neat and clean
65. To take the wind out of another’s sails – To anticipate another and to gain advantage over him
66. To carry the coal – to Newcastle To do unnecessary things
67. To turn the cover – To pass the crisis
68. A sop to Cerberus Ransom – to an enemy
69. To hit the nail on the head – To guess right
70. A baker’s dozen – Thirteen
71. To run amuck – To run about in frenzy
72. To be at one’s finger’s end – To be completely conversant with
73. To pull strings – To exert hidden influence
74. A green horn – An inexperienced man
75. To look sharp – To be quick
76. To pour oil in troubled water – To calm a quarrel with soothing words
77. To play on a fiddle – To be busy over trifles
78. To mind one’s P’s and Q’s – To be careful one one’s mind
79. To oil the knocker – To tip the office boy
80. To cut the crackle – To stop talking and start
81. To cool one’s heels – To be kept watching for sometime
82. By the rule of thumb – By practical experience which is rather rough
83. A fool’s errand – A useless undertaking
84. To put somebody in his place – To make him humble
85. To talk shop – To talk about business or professional affairs
86. To keep one’s head above water – To keep out of debt
87. To live fast – To lead a life of dissipation
88. To hold a brief for – To defend someone
89. To pay off old scores – To harm someone because they have harmed you in the past
90. To take a leaf out of somebody’s book – To take him as a model
91. To set he Thames on fire – To try to do the impossible
92. To cast the pearl before a swine – To offer someone a thing which he cannot appreciate
93. To bear the palm – To win
94. To change the colour – To shift the allegations to
95. To cut the Gordian knot – to be victorious.
96. To have one’s heart in one’s boots – To be deeply depressed.
97. To strike one’s colours – To surrender.
98. To cry wolf – To raise a false alarm.
99. To give one’s ears – To listen carefully.
100. To hang up one’s hat – To make oneself comfortable in another.