Idioms and Phrases
asked in SSC CGL 2019-2020 Tier -1
✎: To take French leave
☛Leave without any intimation
✎: A hard nut to crack
☛ A difficult problem
✎:On shank’s mare
☛On foot
✎:A snake in the grass
☛A secret enemy
✎:Spill the beans
☛Give away a secret
✎:Blow one’s own trumpet
☛Praise oneself
✎:Dead heat
☛Close contest that ends in a tie
✎:Back to square one
☛Come to the original point
✎:To throw a fit
☛ Express extreme anger
✎:The bee’s knees
☛Extraordinary
✎:Hold water
☛To be valid
✎:Bring to light
☛ Reveal clearly
✎:A bed of roses
☛ An easy and happy situation
✎:A close-fisted person
☛A miserly person
✎:To flog a dead horse
☛To waste the efforts
✎:To take the bull by the horns
☛To handle difficulties
✎:To add fuel to the fire.
☛To make a bad situation worse
✎:Hobson’s Choice
☛ An apparently free choice where there is no real alternative
✎:Chicken-hearted
☛Cowardly
✎:By and by
☛Gradually
✎:See eye to eye
☛Agree with someone
✎:Pull a fast one
☛Trick someone
✎:Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
☛Dejected
✎:To paddle one’s own canoe
☛Depend on oneself
✎:Look down upon
☛To consider someone inferior
✎:Keep abreast of
☛Keep oneself updated
✎:Give a piece of one’s mind
☛To rebuke someone strongly
✎:Come to the point
☛To speak plainly about the real issue
✎:The people were scared because the burglar was “at large”.
☛not caught
✎:Cut and dried
☛Already decided
✎:Make off with
☛To run away
✎:Kill two birds with one stone
☛To achieve two results with a single effort
✎:The acid test
☛A fact, event or situation that proves something
✎:Blind alley
☛ A situation in which no further progress can be made
✎:To take a back seat
☛To become less important or to give up control over things
✎:To bark up the wrong tree
☛To do something that will not get the result you want