Idioms Dictionary With Meaning and Sentences Part 18

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:- 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:- 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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