COMMON IDIOMS
Some common idioms that we can use it in everyday life. The common idioms are as follows:
• With one accord - all in agreement
• To take advantage of - To make use of someone or something in such a way as to benefit oneself
• To go up in the air - To become furiously angry
• Castles in the air - Dreams or hopes that can never be realised
• With open arms - To accept or greet with great willingness, without any hesitation
• To back up - To give one's support
• Behind one' s back - Without one's knowledge
• To stab in the back - A teachereous attack
• To go bananas - To go crazy, to lose control over oneself
• To spill the beans - To tell or give away the secret
• Beast or burden - Someone on whom an excessive an amount of work is imposed
• ( not a ) bed of roses - Not a pleasant, easy situation
• Beggars can't be choosers - If one is in real need he must accept whatever he gets
• Behind bars - In the prison
• Benefit of doubt - To accept the most charitable explainatipn of someone's actions
• A blessing in disguise - What at first appeared to be
• A blessing in disguise - What st first appeared to be a misfortune but later turns out to be a boon
• To make the blood run cold - To terrify someone
• Open book - Something that can be understood easily
• To lick someone's boot - To flatter someone i a servile manner to obtain some advantage
• From the bottom of one's heart - With the utmost sincerity
• Blue-eyed-boy - A favoured person
• Brain drain - The loss of experts to nother country
• To have a butterfly in one's stomach - To have an attack of nerves before an important event
• A feather in one's cap - Something one can be proud of
• Rain cats and dogs - To rain very hard • Blank cheque - Permission to do whatever one considers desirable or necessary
• To be chicken hearted - To be cowardly, easily frightened
• On cloud nine - Extremely happy
• With flying colours - With great success, With distinction
• The creame of society - The aristocracy, the most highly favoured class
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