IDIOMS

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No Idiom Sentence
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1. To Add Fuel To Fire

2. To Add Insult To Injury

3. To be in keep with

4. To be at loss

5. To beat about the bush

6. To bell the cat

7. To bear the brunt of

8. To bid fair

9. To beggar description

10. To blow your own trumpet

11. To blow hot and cold

12. To break the ice

13. To break the news

14. To breath ones last

15. To bridge over

16. To bring to book

17. To bring home

18. To bring to light

19. To bridal ones tongue

20. To burn ones figure

To burn the candle at both

21.
ends

22. To burn ones boats

23. To burn the midnight oil

24. To bury the hatchet

25. Call God to Witness

26. To call into question

27. To call the shots

28. To carry the day

29. To carry weight

30. To cast a spell on

31. Catch someone red handed

32. To catch at a straw

33. To come to grief

34. To come to terms

35. Come to stand still

36. To cry wolf

37. Come to an end

38. To crow over

39. To compare notes

40. Cut someone to quick

41. To cut a sorry figure

42. To die in harness

43. To do away with

44. To do the trick

45. To dash the ground

46. To deliver the goods

47. To eat ones word

48. To drop a line

49. To eat a humble pie

50. To egg on

51. To end in smoke

52. To end in fiasco

To be equal to someone or
53.
something

54. To face the music

55. To fight shy of

56. To fight tooth and nail

57. To fall back upon

58. To fall flat

59. To fall a prey to

60. Fall foul of

61. To find fault with

62. To fall out with

63. To feather ones nest

64. To fish in troubled water

65. To flog a dead horse

66. To follow suit

67. Gain ground

68. Get at the bottom of

69. To get rid of

70. To get into scrape

71. To give a bit of ones mind

72. To give an account of oneself

73. To give up the ghost

74. To give the devil his due

75. To give vent to

76. Give one the sack

77. To go to dogs

78. To go on fools errand

79. To grid up ones lions

80. To go hand in hand

81. To hammer out a plan

82. To have an axe to grind

83. To have a cold feet

84. To have a fly in ones bonnet

85. To have a finger in the pie

86. To hang in the balance

87. To harp on something

88. To hit the nail on the head

89. Hold a brief for

90. To hold in contempt

91. To hold ones ground

92. Hold water

93. To keep abreast of

94. Keep up appearance

To keep body and soul

95.
together

96. To keep an eye on

97. To keep ones fingers crossed

To keep ones head above

98.
water

99. To keep an open house

100. To kick the bucket

101. Lead by the nose

102. To learn by rote

103. To leave one in the lurch

104. To let down

105. To let the cat out of bag

106. To lick the dust

107. Look ahead

108. To look blank

109. Look down upon

110. Look forward

111. Look sharp

112. Live up to

To look / see a gift horse in the

113.
mouth

114. Lose heart

115. Lose ones head

116. Lose ones temper

117. To make away with

118. To make no bones about

119. To make a bee line for

120. To make a clean breast

121. To make both ends meet

122. To make a cats paw

123. To make a face

124. To make a headway

125. To make neither head nor tail

126. Make a mess

127. To make up ones mind

128. Mince matters

129. To mind ones own business

130. Monkey with

131. Mark time

132. To marshal the facts

133. To move heaven and earth

134. To make a virtue of necessity

135. To nip something in the bud

136. To pass away

137. To pay lip service to

138. To play ducks and drakes

139. To play the second fiddle

140. To play truant

141. To pocket an insult

142. To poke ones nose

143. To poke fun at

144. To put two and two together

145. To put or lay heads together

146. To poison ones ears

147. To pull a long face

148. To pull ones leg

149. To put a cart before the horse

150. To rest on ones laurels

151. To rest ones oars

152. To rip open old scores

153. To run riot

154. To run short of

155. To save ones skin

156. To see eye to eye with

157. To set aside

158. To shake up

159. To show a clean pair of

160. To show the white feather

161. To slip through ones fingers

162. To split hair

163. Spread like wild fire

164. To speak daggers

165. To smell a rat

166. To sow ones wild oats

167. To stand on ceremony

168. To stand one in great stead

169. To steal a march upon

170. To strain every nerve

171. To stick to ones guns

172. To stem the tide

173. To steer clear of

174. To swallow the bait

175. To Steal the show

176. Take the bull by the horns

177. Take a fancy to

178. To take ones heels

179. To take a leap in the dark

180. To take a task

181. To throw cold water upon

182. To through dust in ones eye

183. To tide over

184. Turn ones coat

185. Turn tables on

186. Turn turtle

187. Turn over a new leaf

188. To walk away with

189. Wash dirty linen

To wear ones heart up ones

190.
sleeves

191. To win laurels

192. To while away