List-18
1. To make believe
Meaning: –to feign or pretend
Use:-He made me believe that he was rich.
2. To bell the cat
Meaning: –to do something extremely dangerous
Use:-Asking the boss for Increasing the salary was like belling the cat.
3. To hit below the belt
Meaning: –to act unfairly in a contest
Use:-If you hit below the belt, you will be punished.
4. To give a person a wide berth
Meaning: –to keep as far away from him as possible
Use:-As he is dishonest, I always like to give him a wide berth.
5. His better ball
Meaning: –a man’s wife
Use:-He is fully under the control of his better half.
6. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Meaning: –certainly is better than the possibility
Use:-Â I don’t want to wait for the prices to go up for selling my scooter as I believe that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
7. An old bird is not to be caught with chaff
Meaning: –Experienced people are not easily fooled or deceived
Use:-You cannot make him pay you money; an old bird is not to be caught with chaff
8. To take the bit between one’s teeth
Meaning: –to get out of control; to become a manageable
Use:-Because his father’s excessive love, Manpreet has taken the bit between his teeth.
9. To bite the dust
Meaning: –to be defeated in war
Use:-Â In the war India made Pakistan bite the dust.
10. The bitter bit
Meaning: –to cheat the cheater
Use:-The bitter was bitten at last when he picked the pocket of a thief.
11. His bark was worse than his bite
Meaning: –lie usually makes a lot of vain verbal threats
Use:-Although his actions were harmless his bark was worse than his bite.
12. Let me see it in black and white
Meaning: –Write it down
Use:-The agreement was in black and white.
13. A wet blanket
Meaning: –a person who discourages others; one who is a damper to the enjoyment
Use:-Don’t take him to the picnic, he is like a wet blanket.
14. To have kissed the blarney stone
Meaning: –to have a very persuasive tongue
Use:-Although he has kissed the blarney stone, he cannot befool me.
15. In cold blood
Meaning: –deliberately; not in passion
Use:-It was a murder in cold blood.
16. Blood is thicker than water
Meaning: –One usually takes the side of one’s relation against another who is not of one’s own blood
Use:-He appeared as a witness in favour of his criminal son; after all blood is thicker than water
17. To blow hot and cold
Meaning: –to do one thing at one time and the opposite soon after
Use:-I don’t trust him, for he always blows hot and cold.
18. A bluestocking
Meaning: –a learned woman, inclined to pedantry
Use:- She is respected in the society of scholars, as she is a bluestocking.
19. Once in a blue moon
Meaning: –a very rare occurrence
Use:-He visits me once in a blue moon.
20. Blue Ribbon
Meaning: –the highest prize in any sport competition or tournament
Use:-He won the Blue Ribbon in the athletic meet.
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