List-19
1.At first blush
Meaning: –at first sight
Use:- He fell in love with her at first blush.
2. In the same boat
Meaning: –in the same misfortune or circumstances
Use:-My friends and I are sailing in the same boat.
3. A bolt from the blue
Meaning: –a sudden and unexpected occurrence
Use:-The crash of the stock market was a bolt from the blue for him.
4. A bone of contention
Meaning: –a cause of the dispute
Use:-Property is the bone of contention between the two brothers.
5. To have a bone to pick with someone
Meaning: –to have something to say to someone which might cause a quarrel
Use:-He is rough and always has a bone to pick with one or the other.
6. A bookworm
Meaning: –a person who has an excessive love of reading books
Use:-lie spends most of his time in the library as he is a bookworm.
7. By leaps and bounds
Meaning: –with remarkable speed
Use:-India is making progress by leaps and bounds.
8. Homeward Bound
Meaning: – on the way home
Use:-As our cricket team did not reach the semifinals, it was soon homeward hound.
9. To Bowdlerise
Meaning: –to remove all the objectionable passages from a book (Thomas Rowdier in 1818 published an expurgated version of Shakespeare’s works)—hence the name)-
Use:-His speech was published after it had been bowdlerised.
10. To boycott
Meaning: –to avoid; to shun; to have no dealings with
Use:-Lala Lajpat Rai boycotted the Simon
11. Breach of promise
Meaning: –Failure to keep a promise to marry one to whom you are betrothed
Use:-She accused 1 Jhanda Singh of breach of promise.
12. One’s bread and butter
Meaning: –one’s means of livelihood
Use:-He earns his bread and butter by selling fruit.
13. His bread is well buttered
Meaning: –He is in fortunate circumstances
Use:-As his bread is well buttered; he does not care for expenses.
14. To breadwinner
Meaning: –one who provides the means of livelihood for himself and his family
Use:-Kuldeep is the breadwinner of his family.
15. To break in
Meaning: –to tame; to bring under control in a gentle manner
Use:-The lion was broken in with great difficulty.
16. To break the news
Meaning: –to reveal something unpleasant in a gentle manner
Use:- I don’t know how to break the news of his failure.
17. lb break the ice
Meaning: –to be the first to begin; to break the silence
Use:-Mohan broke the ice in this matter.
18. To make a clean breast of anything
Meaning: – to make a full confession)
Use:-He made a clean breast of having committed the theft. Rahul made a clean breast of his role in the conspiracy.
19. To breathe one’s last
Meaning: –to die
Use:-He breathed his last after a long illness.
20. To breathe freely again
Meaning: –to feel comfortable
Use:-She was able to breathe freely again after the death of her mother-in-law.
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