Category: Idioms

Be an eager beaver and fancy your chances, trust me success will always be yours.

AN EAGER BEAVER

Sentence-: You need to be an eager beaver to be successful in life.
Meaning-: someone who is enthusiastic about his/her work

EASY AS PIE

Sentence-: If you are ready to work hard, getting a band 9 in IELTS is easy as pie.
Meaning-: something that is very easy

IN YOUR ELEMENT

Sentence-: You can easily work in your element, the point is how well you work when you are out of it.
Meaning-: in an environment where you are confident

ALL ENDS UP

Sentence-: You must do your work all ends up or else not even touch it.
Meaning-: completely

PLUS-MINUS

Sentence-: The net revenue of my company is $500000000 plus-minus.
Meaning-: more or less

CROWD THE MOURNERS

Sentence-: If you crowd the mourners, chances are they may leave you.
Meaning-: put unnecessary pressure on someone

EYEBALL TO EYEBALL

Sentence-: The five years fight has finally come to an eyeball to eyeball.
Meaning-: face to face, often in an aggressive manner

DO A FADE

Sentence-: The moment thief so the police men he did a fade.
Meaning-: run away

WITH THE FAIRIES

Sentence-: That boy who think he will get a band 9 with no effort is with the fairies.
Meaning-: in a distracted or dreamy world.

FANCY YOUR CHANCES

Sentence-: Sometimes it is good to fancy your chances.
Meaning-: to believe that you will be successful

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TAKE A DIM VIEW OF

SENTENCE-: Don’t take a dim view of her, you don’t know what all she can achieve.
MEANING-: to regard someone or something with disapproving attitude

TILL DOOMSDAY

SENTENCE-: I am going to work for my dreams till doomsday.
MEANING-: something forever

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

SENTENCE-: Gandhiji believed in the philosophy of practice what you preach.
MEANING-: do what you advice others to do

A BITE AT THE CHERRY

SENTENCE-: They were working on the new code and I had a bite at the cherry.
MEANING-: an attempt or chance to do something

THE PARTY’S OVER

SENTENCE-: Get started boys, the party’s over.
MEANING-: the good times are over

ALL SYSTEM GO

SENTENCE-: All system’s go, I guess it’s time to move to the next level.
MEANING-: we are ready to proceed or something is working properly

GOSPEL TRUTH

SENTENCE-: I am going to succeed and this is a gospel truth.
MEANING-: the absolute truth

KEEP YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE

SENTENCE-: People who achieve success are the ones who know how to keep their nose to the grindstone
MEANING-: to work hard continuously

FROM A TO B

SENTENCE-: She has been along with me for A to B of the journey.
MEANING-: from the starting point to the destination

KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT

SENTENCE-: You can trust him, he knows what he is about.
MEANING-: to know the consequences of your actions and how to solve them.

PLAY THE DEVIL

SENTENCE-: Hitler might not have thought that he would play the devil for the future of Germany.
MEANING-: to affect something badly

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GIVE SOMEONE GRIEF

SENTENCE-: If you cannot help someone, don’t even give them grief.
MEANING-: prove to be nuisance for someone

RUN FOUL OF

SENTENCE-: The world is running foul of terrorism.
MEANING-: to go against it

RULE OF THUMB

SENTENCE-: Speaking less is a rule of thumb for maintaining good workplace relationships.
MEANING-: an accurate rule or principle based on practice and experience rather than theory.

WITHOUT TEARS

SENTENCE-: Our math teacher teaches us math without tears.
MEANING-: to present something in a manner that it could be easily learnt.

A GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT

SENTENCE-: Earlier people only had gentleman’s agreement.
MEANING-: an agreement based on the trust of the parties involved rather than any legal boundations

LET GEORGE DO IT

SENTENCE-: Don’t waste your entire time doing that stupid thing, let George do it.
MEANING-: handle over the responsibility to someone else

THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW

SENTENCE-: There are so many people who pretend to be mean but are straight and narrow.
MEANING-: morally correct behavior

KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE

SENTENCE-: Even though she has achieved so much, she manages to keep a straight face.
MEANING-: to not show any amusement or expression

PLACE IN THE SUN

SENTENCE-: She has got her place in the sun after lot of hard work.
MEANING-: a position of advantage

ON CLOUD NINE

SENTENCE-: I was on cloud nine after she told me that I have been selected for Harvard Business School.
MEANING-: to be extremely happy

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WITHOUT FAIL

SENTENCE-: The sun is going to rise without fail.
MEANING-: something that can be easily predicted

KEEP SOMEONE IN THE DARK

SENTENCE-: I never thought, you will keep in dark about this matter.
MEANING-: to keep someone in a state of ignorance about something

BE UNDER THE ILLUSION

SENTENCE-: She has been under the illusion that he is going to come back.
MEANING-: wrongly believe something

THE JEWEL IN CROWN

SENTENCE-: She has been the jewel in the crown of our project.
MEANING-: the most attractive part of something

KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE

SENTENCE-: It is quite difficult to kill two birds with one stone.
MEANING-: to achieve two aims at once

ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS

SENTENCE-: You really understand life on the wrong side of the tracks.
MEANING-: the poor or less prestigious part of town

FIT THE BILL

SENTENCE-: I fit the bill of being an entrepreneur.
MEANING-: to be suitable for a particular position

THE END OF THE ROAD

SENTENCE-: The day I will reach the end of the road, I will take the leap of faith and jump.
MEANING-: the point after which survival is not possible

TEAR YOUR HAIR OUT

SENTENCE-: We will get the contract any ways, you need not to tear your hair out.
MEANING-: to show extreme desperation

SO HELP ME

SENTENCE-: I am in real trouble. So, help me.
MEANING-: to emphasize on the fact that you mean what you say

GIVE SOMEONE HELL

SENTENCE-: Hitler gave hell to millions of Jews.
MEANING-: to reprimand someone severely

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