Idioms Flashcards by Unknown Unknown

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All moonshine

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Far from Reality, (crying for the moon)

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Assume Airs

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Think of themself as superior, arrogant

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Angle for

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To achieve or ask something in indirect way

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Broken Reed

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Failed support system

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Green eyed

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Jealous

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Be green

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Immature, child like and inexperienced

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Black and Blue

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To beat someone very badly

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Bandy Words

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Bandy means hit, bandy words means to argue

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Back of beyond

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A remote and distant place, far fetched areas

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Be given the axe

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To loose job

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Pink Slit

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notice of dismissal from employment

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Be in the mire

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Mire means (दल दल) and be in the mire means be in difficult situation

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Bite the dust

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failed, unsuccessful/ to be killed (both meanings)

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By fair means or foul

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In any way, either honest or dishonest

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Boil the ocean

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try to do something impossible

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Bend one’s ears

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to talk to someone for a long time

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Born to the purple

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Born in royal family

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By the seat of one’s pant

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To do something based on your own experience and judgement

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Burnt his finger

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get into trouble

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Break fresh/new ground

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New work that no one has done before,

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Be on the breadline

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Very poor

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Belly Laugh

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Uncontrolled laughter

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Beside oneself

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out of senses

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A bear garden

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A place of noise and disturbance

Hard hit

Severely affected by something unpleasant

Be like a chalk and cheese

Be absolutely different

Black Sheep

A disgraceful person

Be at a loose end

To have nothing to do

Banging the drum

To voice one's support

Burn your bridges

To eliminate the possibility of return or retreat