Idioms and Phrases Meaning

♻️Rank and File
⚡Ordinary People

♻️By fits and starts
⚡In short periods, not regularly

♻️A wee bit
⚡A little

♻️Out of the wood
⚡Free from difficulties and dangers

♻️Under his thumb
⚡Under his control

♻️At one’s wits end
⚡In a state where one does not know what to do

♻️Between the devil and the deep sea
⚡Between two dangers

♻️Burn the midnight oil
⚡Work or study hard

♻️Call a spade a spade
⚡Speak frankly and directly

♻️Come off with flying colors
⚡Be highly successful

♻️Hoping against hope
⚡Without hope

♻️Hit the nail on the head
⚡Do or say the exact thing

♻️An axe to grind
⚡A personal interest in the matter

♻️To get rid of
⚡Dispose of

♻️At daggers drawn
⚡Bitterly hostile

♻️To play ducks and drakes
⚡To act foolishly or inconsistently

♻️To take the bull by the horns
⚡To tackle a problem in a bold and direct fashion

♻️Rain cats and dogs
⚡Rain heavily

♻️To move heaven and earth
⚡To make a supreme effort

♻️No avail
⚡Without any result

♻️Bark up the wrong tree
⚡Accuse or denounce the wrong person

♻️Keep one at bay
⚡Keep one at a distance

♻️Make a clean breast of it
⚡Confess – especially when a person has done a wrong thing

♻️Have a card up one’s sleeve
⚡Have a secret plan in reserve

♻️Like a cat on hot bricks
⚡Very nervous

♻️Cat and dog life
⚡Life full of quarrels

♻️Cock and bull story
⚡Made up story that one should not believe

♻️Cry for the moon
⚡Ask for the impossible

♻️The pros and cons
⚡The various aspects of a matter in detail

♻️Be in a tight corner
⚡In a very difficult situation

♻️Cross one’s t’s and dot
⚡Be precise, careful and one’s i’s exact

♻️At arm’s length
⚡To keep at a distance

♻️Out of the question
⚡Impossible

♻️Out of the way
⚡Strange

♻️Show a clean pair of heals
⚡Run away

♻️Keep one’s fingers crossed
⚡The anxiety in which you hope that nothing will upset your plan

♻️In the nick of time
⚡Just at the last moment

♻️Sitting on the fence
⚡Hesitate between two decisions

♻️Spread like wild fire
⚡Spread quickl

♻️The gift of the gab
⚡Talent for speaking

♻️By hook or by crook
⚡By fair or foul means

♻️Feather one’s own nest
⚡Make money unfairly

♻️Throw out of gear
⚡Disturb the work

♻️Take to one’s heels
⚡Run away

♻️Tooth and nail
⚡With all one’s power

♻️Die in harness
⚡Die while in service

♻️Take a leaf out of one’s book
⚡Imitate one

♻️Leave no stone unturned
⚡Use all available means

♻️A man of straw
⚡A man of no substance

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