Idioms Dictionary With Meaning and Sentences Part 6

List-6

1. To break the back of anything

Meaning- to perform the most difficult part of it

Use:- I have broken the backbone of the problem.

2. To backbite, a person

Meaning- to slander or to speak ill of someone

Use:- He is in the habit of backbiting others.

3. He has no backbone

Meaning- he has no will of his own

Use:- A henpecked husband has no backbone.

4. Backstairs influence

Meaning- influence exerted in an underhand or clandestine manner

Use:- He went scot-free in the case because of his backstairs influence.

5. To cause bad blood

Meaning-  to cause strife and enmity

Use:-The land dispute has caused bad blood between the two brothers.

6. A bad egg

Meaning-  a bad penny

Use:- a worthless fellow. He has proved a bad egg/penny in his family.

7. Bag and baggage

Meaning-  with all one’s belongings

Use:- He has shifted from Ludhiana to Phagwara with bag and baggage.

8. To keep the ball rolling

Meaning-  to keep things going on

Use:- Don’t stop the fun; keeps the ball rolling.

9. To beat about the bush

Meaning- to talk in a roundabout manner

Use:- Come to point; don’t beat about the bush.

10. Bed and board

Meaning- lodgings and food

Use:- You will be provided with bed and board at our expenses.

11. To have a bee in one’s bonnet

Meaning- to be cranky

Use:- He is a mechanic but wants to buy a Roll Royce car. He must be having a bee in his bonnet

12. Bee-line

Meaning-  the shortest distance between two places

Use:- There is no bee-line to success. You must work hard for it.

13. Behind one’s back

Meaning-  without one’s knowledge

Use:- My son started learning music behind my back

14. To bell, the cat

Meaning-  to do something extremely dangerous

Use:- Asking the boss for increasing the salary was like belling the cat

15. His better half

Meaning-  a man’s wife

Use:- He is fully under the control of his better half

16. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Meaning-  certainly is better than a 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.

17. To bite the dust

Meaning-  to be defeated in war

Use:- In the war India made Pakistan bite the dust.

18. 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.

19. In cold blood

Meaning-  deliberately; not in passion

Use:- It was a murder in cold blood

20. 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

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