Write down 50 idioms ,their meanings and idiomatic expression
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1. Stir up a hornets’ nest
Provoke trouble
2. Back against the wall
Be in a difficult situation from where escape is difficult
3. Bite off more than you can chew
To try to do something that is too difficult for you
4. Head over heels
If you’re head over heels, you’re completely in love.
5. Upset someone’s applecart
If you upset someone’s applecart, you do something that causes a plan to go wrong.
6. Spoil someone’s plans
To ruin someone’s plans
7. Keep someone at arm’s length
If you keep someone at arm’s length, you avoid becoming friendly with them.
8. Up in arms
Angry about something
9. Drive a hard bargain
If you drive a hard bargain, you argue hard to get a favorable deal.
10. Barking up the wrong tree
To ask the wrong person or follow the wrong course
11. Scrape the barrel
When you’re scraping the barrel, you’re using something you do not want to but you’ve no option.
12. Bend over backwards
To try please or accommodate someone to an unusual degree
13. A chip off the old block
If you’re a chip off the old block, you’re similar in some distinct way to your father or mother.
14. Blow your own trumpet
If you blow your own trumpet, you tell people how good or successful you are (used in negative way).
15. Once in a blue moon
If something happens once in a blue moon, it happens rarely.
16. Burn your boats/ bridges
If you burn your boats, you do something that makes it impossible to change your plans and go back to the earlier position or situation.
17. Make no bones about something
If you make no bones about something, you say clearly what you feel or think about it.
18. Break fresh/ new ground
If you break new ground, you do something that was not done before.
19. In the same breath
When you say two things in the same breath, you say two very different or contradictory things.
20. Take away your breath
If someone or something takes your breath away, it astonishes you.
21. Sell like hot cakes
If something sells like hot cakes, it sells very fast.
22. Burn the candle at both ends
If you burn the candle at both ends, you work excessively hard, say, by keeping two jobs or by leading a busy social life in the evening.
23. Separate the wheat from the chaff
If you separate wheat from the chaff, you separate valuable from worthless.
24. Change tune
If you change your tune, you change the way you behave with others from good to bad.
25. Run around in circles
To be active without achieving any worthwhile result
26. Turn the clock back
If you turn the clock back to an earlier period, you return to that time.
27. Against the clock
If you’re working against the clock, you’re working in great hurry.
28. Close the door on someone
If you close the door on someone or something, you no longer deal with it.
29. Burn the midnight oil
To work late in the night
30. Chicken and egg situation
If a situation is chicken and egg, it is impossible to decide which of the two came first and caused the other one.
31. On cloud nine
If you’re on cloud nine, you’re very happy.
32. Under a cloud
If you’re under a cloud, you’re under suspicion or in trouble.
33. Head in the clouds
If your head is in the clouds, you’re not in touch with the ground realities.
34. Small cog in a large wheel
Someone or something that has a small role in a large setup or organization.
35. The other side of the coin
The other point of view
36. Pay someone back in his /her own coin
If you pay someone back in his/ her own coin, you treat him/ her in the same way he/ she treated you.
37. Left out in the cold
If you’re left out in the cold, you’re ignored.
38. Pour cold water on
If you pour cold water on an idea or plan, you criticize it to the extent that people lose enthusiasm to pursue it.
39. Blow hot and cold
If you blow hot and cold, you vacillate.
40. To come to a head
If something comes to a head, it reaches to the point of a crisis.
41. Cool your heels
Wait for something, especially when it’s annoying
42. Cut corners
If you cut corners, you save money or effort by finding cheaper or easier ways to do things.
43. Run its course
If something runs its course, it continues naturally until it finishes.
44. Stay the course
If you stay the course, you persevere till the completion of a task, especially a difficult one.
45. Cut someone down to size
If you cut someone down to size, you show them they’re not as important or intelligent as they think.
46. Daylight robbery
Blatant overcharging
47. Boil the ocean
If you try to boil the ocean, you try to accomplish something too ambitious.
48. Handle with kid gloves
If you handle someone with kid gloves, you treat them with extreme tact and care.
49. Clear the decks
If you clear the decks for something, you remove all hurdles to get started on that work.
50. Between the devil and the deep blue sea
If you’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, you’re caught between two undesirable alternatives.
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