Idioms and Phrases

🛍️Make up one’s mind
🖋️Decide

🛍️In the long run
🖋️Eventually; ultimately

🛍️Bring to light
🖋️Disclose

🛍️Pay off old scores
🖋️Take revenge

🛍️Hard and fast rules
🖋️Strict rules

🛍️At the eleventh hour
🖋️At the last moment

🛍️A close shave
🖋️Narrow escape

🛍️To cut a sorry figure
🖋️To make a poor show

🛍️With a high hand
🖋️Oppressively

🛍️Burn one’s fingers
🖋️Get into trouble by interfering in other’s affairs

🛍️Laugh one’s head off
🖋️Laugh heartily

🛍️Chew the cud
🖋️Ponder over something

🛍️Play second fiddle
🖋️Take an unimportant part

🛍️Above board
🖋️Honest and open

🛍️Through thick and thin
🖋️Under all conditions

🛍️Put a spoke in one’s wheel
🖋️To upset one’s plans

🛍️At sixes and sevens
🖋️In a disordered/disorganized manner, chaotic

🛍️At home
🖋️Comfortable

🛍️Alpha and omega
🖋️The beginning and the end

🛍️At sea
🖋️Confused and lost

🛍️A bosom friend
🖋️A very close friend

🛍️At one’s beck and call
🖋️At one’s service

🛍️By leaps and bounds
🖋️Rapidly

🛍️To burn one’s boats
🖋️Go back on a decision

🛍️To beat about the bush
🖋️Talk irrelevantly

🛍️To burn candle at both ends
🖋️To waste lavishly

🛍️Take one to task
🖋️Rebuke

🛍️A bone of contention
🖋️A source of quarrel

🛍️Add fuel to the fire
🖋️To aggravate the situation

🛍️An acid test
🖋️A critical test

🛍️At a snail’s pace
🖋️Very slowly

🛍️A bolt from the blue
🖋️Something unexpected

🛍️To build castles in the air
🖋️Make imaginary schemes

🛍️Once in a blue moon
🖋️Something that happens very rarely

🛍️Beating around the bush
🖋️Avoiding the main topic

🛍️Cry over spilled milk
🖋️Complaining about a loss or failure from the past

🛍️Chip on your shoulder
🖋️When someone is upset about something that happened a while ago

🛍️Piece of cake
🖋️Something that is easy to understand or do

🛍️Golden handshake
🖋️A big sum of money given to a person when he/she leaves a company or retires

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