IDIOMATIC PHRASES
Idiomatic Phrases Meanings
To build castles in the air
The apple of one’s eye
To receive with open arms
To take up arms
To keep a person at arm’s length
to have an axe to grind
To back out
To have no backbone
A bad egg
To keep the ball rolling
Like a bear with a sore head
To beat about the bush
To have a bee in one’s bonnet
To talk behind one’s back
To bell the cat
To hit bellow to belt
To be in black and white
In cold blood
Blood is thicker than water
In the same boat
To have a bone to pick
A book worm
One’s bread and butter
To make a clean breast of
To kick the bucket
To nip in the bud
A red rag to a bull
A bull in a china shop
To day-dream
A favored person
To welcome cordially
To go to war
To avoid being too familiar with a person
to have something to gain by an action
To withdraw from an agreement
To have no will of one’s own
A worthless person
To keep things going
Very bad-tempered
To talk in a roundabout way
To have a crazy idea
To talk without one’s knowing
To do something which is very dangerous
To act unfairly towards an opponent
To write it down on paper
Deliberately
One usually takes the side of one’s relation
In the same circumstances
To have something to say which may lead
to a quarrel
A person who always read
One’s livelihood
To confess all
To die
To stop something before it can develop
Something which angers a person
(deliberately)
A very clumsy person or a person who is
very angry and destructive