2000s

Question 1

Blow one’s top / blow one’s stack

Answer 1

To be very angry

Question 2

A cock and bull story

Answer 2

A fanciful and unbelievable tale

Question 3

Find one’s feet

Answer 3

To grow in confidence in a new situation as one gains experience.

Question 4

Call it a night

Answer 4

To go to bed to sleep

Question 5

The tip of the iceberg

Answer 5

Only a small part of a much larger problem

Question 6

Below par / under par

Answer 6

Average or normal amount, degree, health or condition

Question 7

From pillar to post

Answer 7

To and fro

Question 8

Hang up on

Answer 8

To end a telephone call

Question 9

Turn someone on

Answer 9

To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust, pleasure

Question 10

Turn someone off

Answer 10

To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust etc

Question 11

By and by

Answer 11

After a while, soon

Question 12

The team meanings

Answer 12

Some articles that match your query

Question 13

To kick the bucket

Answer 13

Die

Question 14

To push to the walls

Answer 14

To place in a desperate or extreme position

Question 15

To read between the lines

Answer 15

Find the real message in what you’re reading or hearing

Question 16

To be at daggers drawn

Answer 16

Very angry and close to violence

Question 17

To throw down the gauntlet

Answer 17

Declare or issue a challenge

Question 18

To be Greek / it’s all Greek to me

Answer 18

It is beyond my comprehension

Question 19

To stand on ceremony

Answer 19

To behave in a formal or ceremonious manner

Question 20

From the horse’s mouth

Answer 20

To hear it directly from the person concerned or responsible

Question 21

Have a heavy cross to bear

Answer 21

To have a difficult problem to deal with that causes you worry or anxiety

Question 22

Take aback

Answer 22

Surprise, shock

Question 23

Take after

Answer 23

Follow the example of, resemble in appearance, temperature or character

Question 24

Take for

Answer 24

To regard as

Question 25

Take ill

Answer 25

Become ill

Question 26

Take off

Answer 26

Remove

Question 27

Take off

Answer 27

To decrease the amount (He took 20% off the price)

Question 28

Take oneself off

Answer 28

Leave, go away

Question 29

Take over

Answer 29

Assume control, management, possession of

Question 30

Take to

Answer 30

To go away to a place to escape

Question 31

Take to task

Answer 31

To criticise

Question 32

Take to one’s heels

Answer 32

Run away

Question 33

Take with a pinch of salt

Answer 33

Skeptically, with reservations

Question 34

Kick the bucket

Answer 34

To die

Question 35

Bolt from the blue

Answer 35

Unexpectedly and suddenly

Question 36

Put your foot down

Answer 36

Make a firm stand

Question 37

Worth your salt

Answer 37

Deserving respect

Question 38

Down the drain

Answer 38

Being lost or wasted

Question 39

Be all ears

Answer 39

Acutely attentive

Question 40

Swan song

Answer 40

Final achievement, public appearance

Question 41

Cheek by jowl

Answer 41

Very close together

Question 42

In a nutshell

Answer 42

Concise, in a few words

Question 43

Give me five

Answer 43

To match palm of your hand with someone

Question 44

To bring grist to the mill

Answer 44

Something that is useful to someone for a particular purpose

Question 45

Set one’s cap

Answer 45

Pursue someone romantically

Question 46

To draw the longbow

Answer 46

Exaggerate

Question 47

Send a person to Coventry

Answer 47

To ostracise, systematically ignore someone

Question 48

Beer and skittles

Answer 48

All fun and pleasure

Question 49

Acid test

Answer 49

A decisive and critical test

Question 50

Skeleton in the cupboard

Answer 50

An embarrassing fact that someone wishes to keep secret

Question 51

To a mare’s nest

Answer 51

Very complicated situation

Question 52

Keep one’s nose to the grindstone

Answer 52

To work hard for a long period of time without stopping

Question 53

Knock someone for a loop / throw someone for a loop

Answer 53

To shock or surprise someone

Question 54

Letter perfect

Answer 54

Correct in all detail

Question 55

Off the wall

Answer 55

Unusual and amusing

Question 56

Out to lunch

Answer 56

Crazy or out of touch

Question 57

Salt something away

Answer 57

Save something for future, secretly and usually dishonestly

Question 58

Take someone to the cleaners

Answer 58

To defeat someone completely

Question 59

Wear the pants

Answer 59

Be dominant partner in a relationship

Question 60

Twiddle your thumbs

Answer 60

To do nothing

Question 61

Vamp up

Answer 61

Repair and improve something

Question 62

Whittle something away

Answer 62

To make something gradually decrease in value

Question 63

Winkle out

Answer 63

To get something out of place or position

Question 64

Give someone the bum’s rush

Answer 64

To eject forcibly

Question 65

Loom Large

Answer 65

To be worrying or frightening and seem hard to avoid The possibility of civil war loomed large on the horizon

Question 66

Besetting sin

Answer 66

A fault to which a person is especially prone

Question 67

To hang fire

Answer 67

Delay

Question 68

To put a lid on / keep a lid on

Answer 68

To keep something secret to, to keep something under control

Question 69

Flavour of the month

Answer 69

Temporarily popular

Question 70

Zero hour

Answer 70

The time when something important is to start

Question 71

Gloom and doom

Answer 71

The feeling that a situation is bad and is not likely to improve

Question 72

To pig out

Answer 72

Eat ravenously, gorge oneself

Question 73

Bag people

Answer 73

Homeless people

Question 74

Compassion fatigue

Answer 74

A weariness of and diminishing public response to frequent requests for charity

Question 75

Not mince matters

Answer 75

Moderate and restraint one’s language to be polite

Question 76

Blow one’s too

Answer 76

Lose one’s temper

Question 77

A cock and bull story

Answer 77

An unbelievable tale that is intended to deceive

Question 78

Find one’s feet

Answer 78

To gain confidence in a new situation with experience

Question 79

Call it a night

Answer 79

To go to bed to sleep

Question 80

The tip of the iceberg

Answer 80

Only a small part of a much larger problem

Question 81

Below par / under par

Answer 81

Average or normal amount

Question 82

From pillar to post

Answer 82

To and fro

Question 83

Hang up on

Answer 83

To end telephone call

Question 84

Turn someone on

Answer 84

To create feeling of excitement, interest, lust

Question 85

Turn someone off

Answer 85

To create feelings of dislike, repulsion, disgust

Question 86

Leave in the lurch

Answer 86

Abandon or desert

Question 87

Hand and fast

Answer 87

Not to be changed

Question 88

Weather the storm

Answer 88

Wait until situation improves

Question 89

Bear the brunt

Answer 89

put up with the worst of a Bad situation

Question 90

Meet halfway

Answer 90

To compromise with someone

Question 91

Where the shoe pinches

Answer 91

Source of trouble, grief, difficulty