Idioms and Proverb

8/3/2019 Idioms and Proverb

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To receive with open

arms :to welcome


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To keep the ball rolling :

to keep things going as it

is


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To bell the cat :

to do something verydangerous


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To foot the bill


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to pay the bill


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To kill two birds with

one stone

to accomplish two tasks

with one action


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1.To kick the bucket to

die

2. To paddle your own

canoe to do things

yourself


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3.To carry on to

continue

4. To cut your coat

according to your cloth

to spend only what you

can afford


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5. To build castles in the

air to day-dream

6. To turn a deaf ear to

ignore deliberately

7. To put all ones eggs in

one basket to risk


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everything in a single

enterprise

8.To bury the hatchet

to forgive and forget

9. To strike while the iron

is hot to act quickly


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while the situation is at

ones advantage

10. To drop someone a

line to write a letter to

someone

11.To cry over spilt milk to

be upset over something


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which nothing could be

done

12. Tied to ones apron

string under ones

control


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13. A white elephant an

expensive but useless

object

14. A feather in ones cap

something one has

reason to be proud of


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15. Having green fingers

good at gardening

16. Seeing red losing

control over ones

temper

17. A scapegoat

someone who is blamed


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for something he did not

do

18. Born with a silver

spoon born in a

wealthy family

19. On the spour of the

moment impulsively


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20. Through thick and

thin In all kinds of

situation

21. In the nick of time

just in time


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22. Slip of the tongue

something said in

error/unintentionally

Proverbs


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Actions speak louder than

words

it is what we do rather

than what we say that

really matters


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All work and

no play makesJack a dull boy


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life will be boring if

one works all the time


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As you sow, so shall you

reap -

one will be given a reward or

punishment according to onesaction, be it a virtuous or a sinful

life


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The best fish swims at the

bottom

the best thing is hard to

come by


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A bird in the hand

is worth two in the bush

something one alreadyhas, is better than


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something, one has yet to

get

Call a spade a spade


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- speaking right to the

point in plain simple

language


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Clothes do not make the

man

ones character is not to

be determined by the

clothes

one wears


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Cut your coat according

to your cloth


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adjust your expenditure

according to your

resources

Dont count your chickens

before they are hatched-


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one should not boast

about

ones success

before

achieving it


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Dont make a mountain

out of a mole-hill

dont make a fuss out of

a small thing


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Dont put all your eggs in

one basket

when investing ones capital,one should not venture the whole

amount into a single investment


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Dont put the cart before

the horse

one should not put

things in a reverse

manner


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Dont wash your dirty

linen in public

one should not discuss


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any shameful or family

matters in public

1. The early birds catches the best worm one who

acts promptly will get the best opportunity

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