Phrase & Idioms, The most important phrases and Idioms for Competitive Exams

Phrases & Idioms

 ▶️A blot from the blue - ( an unexpected calamity) 

 ▶️ Achilles Heel - ( a weak point)

 ▶️ A red letter day - ( a memorable day)

 ▶️ Abode of Hod - ( Heaven) 

 ▶️All in all - (All powerful) 

 ▶️Apple of one's eye- (extremely favourite) 

 ▶️A daggers drawn - ( To be the state of hospitality) 

 ▶️Beyond all questions - (without doubt) 

 ▶️Boot leg - ( Smuggle) 

 ▶️By all means -  (Certainly) 

 ▶️Carry the day - (Win)

 ▶️Cut to the quick - (To hurt intensely) 

 ▶️A cook and bull story - ( A false story)

 ▶️A bed of roses - ( A place or situation agreeable ease) 

 ▶️All at once- (Suddenly) 

 ▶️An apple of discord - (An object of quarrel) 

 ▶️A round dazen - ( a full dozen) 

 ▶️At stake - (in danger)

 ▶️At bay - ( in a tight corner) 

 ▶️Beggars description - ( Beyond description) 

 ▶️Bad blood - (ill feeling) 

 ▶️Bottom line - (the essential point) 

 ▶️Blue blood - (aristocratic birth)

 ▶️By leaps and bounds- (very rapidly) 

 ▶️Bring to light - ( make open,  published )

 ▶️Bull market - (rising)

 ▶️Black sheep - ( very wicked man)

 ▶️Cut a sad figure - ( cut a sorry figure) 

 ▶️Dark Horse - (Unknown person) 

 ▶️Dead letter - ( low that not in force)

 ▶️Deep Water - ( in trouble) 

 ▶️Dead language - ( a language which is no longer in use)

 ▶️Dog days - ( hot weather) 

 ▶️Flesh and blood - (human body) 

 ▶️Gift of the gab - (power of delivering speech) 

 ▶️Hold water - (bear examination) 

 ▶️Hush money - (bribed)

 ▶️Herculean task - ( a very difficult task)

 ▶️In black and white - ( in writing) 

 ▶️Irony of fate - ( by bad luck)

 ▶️In the nick of time - ( in right time) 

 ▶️ Kith & Kin - ( blood relation)

 ▶️Lion's Share - ( major portion) 

 ▶️Maiden speech - ( first speech) 

 ▶️ Ones in a blue moon - ( very rarely)

 ▶️Pros and cons - (advantage and disadvantage) 

 ▶️Part and parcel - ( an integral part)

 ▶️Pin money - (Sundry expense) 

 ▶️Rank and file - (common person) 

 ▶️Sit on the fence - (remain neutral in a dispute) 

 ▶️Soft soap - ( flattery for self motives)

 ▶️Stone's throw - ( within very short distance) 

 ▶️Through thick and thin - (under all conditions) 

 ▶️To raise one's eye brow - ( Show surprise or disapproval) 

 ▶️Widow's mite - (Small contribution of a poor man)

 ▶️White elephant - ( a very costly and troublesome possession) 

 ▶️A dead letter - ( Useless documents) 

 ▶️All Greek - ( totally unintelligible) 

 ▶️All and sundry - ( everyone)

 ▶️At arm's length - ( long distance) 

 ▶️At sixes and sevens - (chaotic condition)

 ▶️Bag and baggage - ( with all possession) 

 ▶️Big gun - ( important person) 

 ▶️Birds -eye view- (overall picture)

 ▶️Bolt from the blue - ( unexpected danger)

 ▶️Bring to book - ( take to task)

 ▶️Burning question - ( important issue) 

 ▶️Between the lines - (  hidden meaning) 

 ▶️By leaps and bounds -( great speed)

 ▶️By fits and starts - (irregularly) 

 ▶️Call in question - ( doubt) 

 ▶️Carry the day - ( be victorious) 

 ▶️Come to as end - ( end)

 ▶️Crocodile tears -( showing sorrows) 

 ▶️Swan song - (last work)

 ▶️ Take the bull by the horns - ( to challenge the enemy with courage) 

 ▶️Tell upon - (To effect) 

 ▶️ To feather one's nest - (to be selfish) 

 ▶️The three R's - ( elementary education) 

 ▶️Throuh and through - ( completely) 

 ▶️Throw cold water - ( discourage) 

 ▶️Through Thick and thin- ( every way and every time)

 ▶️Tooth and nail - ( strongly)

 ▶️ To go into liquidation - ( To go bankrupt) 

 ▶️ To break the ice - ( to be the first begin)

 ▶️Up and doing - ( active and lively)

 ▶️Ups and downs - ( good and bad for true)

 ▶️Vexed question - (difficult problem) 

 ▶️Weal and Woe - ( happiness and sorrow)

 ▶️Well- to- do - ( rich)

 ▶️Yeoman's service - (Valuable help)