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Idioms and Phrases

1) You should review your options carefully before you make a decision.

2) Select the correct proverb to fill in the blank following sentence: it is best not to delay since

3) His behavior compelled me to give him a piece of my mind

4) My teacher said to me that all that glitters were not gold.

5) The separation from a near and dear one fills one's mind with blues.

6) There is no point in discussing the new project with him as he always pours cold water on any ideas.

7) Regadless of what her parents said, she wanted to let her hair down that night.

8) I jumped out of my skin when the explosion happened.

9) Just keep your wig on. Everything will be alright.

10) Parents pay through the nose for their children’s education.

11) Once the case reached the court, the police washed their hands off it.

12) My sincere advice to my maidservant fell on stony ground.

13) The students of that group have assured their project guide that they will all work against the clock.

14) I could have continued my higher studies if I wanted but, that’s water under the bridge.

15) My parents want me to study science, but I will stick to my guns and graduate in Economics.

16) Please be as brief as you can, I have other fish to fry.

17) He says he has invented a time machine, which is clearly a load of cobblers.

18) You cannot throw dust into my eyes

19) Goods will be delivered if you pay on the nail

20) Sukanya stood by her husband in weal and woe.

21) To pick holes

22) To leave someone in the lurch

23) Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.. Pain in the neck

24) His investments helped him make a killing in the stock market.

25) Tell me plainly who broke the mirror, do not beat about the bush.

26) Believe me, I am all at sea.

27) To cast pearls before swine :

28) He is a dark horse.

29) To make clean breast of

30) The watchdogs were asleep when the bulls ran riot

31) pick to pieces

32) Keep under one's hat

33) Give cold shoulder

34) It will be wise for her to let the bygones be bygones.

35) On thin ice

36) To be on cloud nine

37) The young boy’s act put his father in a pickle.

38) He left the town under a cloud.

39) She played ducks and drakes with her money.

40) Don’t pay attention to Peter; he’s only crying wolf.”

41) Turn a blind eye

42) He was still wet behind the ears, politically.

43) A wild goose chase

44) His parents cut him off, without a shilling.

45) The idiomatic expression 'A slap on the wrist' means

46) The company's stock turned out to be something of a damp squib

47) When he didn't return with my money, I realized I had been taken for a ride.

48) The police looked all over for him but drew a blank.

49) On the issue of marriage, Sarita put her foot down.

50) His speech has taken the wind out of my sails.