Phrases Related To “Walk”

Do you think, you can walk the chalk? By the way have you wondered how is your walk of life? If not, You need to wake up and smell the coffee. Understood a word?? Well, if not, read more and find out the real meaning of these idioms.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
SENTENCE-: There is a fine line between being optimistic and being blind. You need to wake up and smell the coffee.
MEANING-: Become aware of the realities of a situation, however unpleasant
BE A WAKE UP
SENTENCE-: The crime rates in our country will lower down if the watchmen became wake up,
MEANING-: Be fully alert or aware
WALK ALL OVER
SENTENCE-: You need to be really smart otherwise people will walk all over you.
MEANING-: Defeat easily or take advantage
WALK BEFORE YOU CAN RUN
SENTENCE-: How can you write a book if you don’t even know how to write an essay properly!! Remember you need to walk before your run.
MEANING-: Grasp the basic skills before attempting something more difficult.
WALK THE CHALK
SENTENCE-: You don’t become sober by saying, you need to walk the chalk.
MEANING-: have your sobriety tested
WALK SOMEONE OFF THEIR FEET
SENTENCE-: Often boxers win the fight by first walking their opponents off their feet and then beating them with correct moves.
MEANING-: To exhaust a person by walking
WALK OF LIFE
SENTENCE-: The harder you work, the better is your walk of life.
MEANING-: The position within the society that a person holds or the group he/she belongs because of the job or the work they do.
WALK ON EGGS
SENTENCE-: The Prime Minister is always walking on eggs.
MEANING-: To be extremely cautious about your actions or words.
WALK SPANISH
SENTENCE-: Walking is such a good habit that even if you walk Spanish, I would consider it good
MEANING-: Made to walk under compulsion.
WALK YOUR TALK
SENTENCE-: A country will grow only if the government walks the talk.
MEANING-: Your actions suit your words.

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Walking Idioms

Are you a walking disaster? Or do you like to be on the wallaby? Do you wish to walk tall? Or do you wish to understand what I am saying?? Well, if it is the last one, go on and read more to find out the literal meaning of the idioms.

WALK TALL
SENTENCE-: The President walk tall.
MEANING-: justifiable pride
GO WALKABOUT
SENTENCE-: Where are you going? Umm, no we are just taking a walk about.
MEANING-: wander around from place to place in a protracted or leisurely way.
GO WALKIES
SENTENCE-: The police is extensively searching for Akash, after all he was the only one who went walkies.
MEANING-: go missing, especially as a result of theft
A WALKING
SENTENCE-: Avinash has been a walking disaster for Uttarakhand.
MEANING-: someone who notably embodies the characteristics of something.
DRIVE SOMEONE UP THE WALL
SENTENCE-: Don’t drive me up the wall, you are not ready yet to face the consequences.
MEANING-: make someone very irritated or angry
UP AGAINST THE WALL
SENTENCE-: the disaster led thousands of people up against the wall.
MEANING-: in great trouble or difficulty
ON THE WALLABY
SENTENCE-: millions of people were on the wallaby during the great depression of the 1930s.
MEANING-: unemployed and having no fixed address
A WAR OF NERVES
SENTENCE-: We are often caught in the war of nerves with our colleagues.
MEANING-: a struggle in which opponents try to wear each other down by psychological means.
A WAR OF WORDS
SENTENCE-: With the coming of INTERNET, war of word is the most common thing to notice.
MEANING-: prolonged debate conducted by means of spoken or printed word
HAVE BEEN IN THE WAR
SENTENCE-: I know how the blood looks like because I have been in the war.
MEANING-: have been hurt or injured

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The Gaiety Of Nations??

Life will bE simpler if you lived in gaiety of nations. Gaiety of what?? This is the funny part about idioms, what they actually mean is not what they literally mean. Read more and find it out.

BELOW THE GAFF
SENTENCE-: They leaked the information below the gaff.
MEANING-: reveal or let out a plot or secret
THE GAIETY OF NATIONS
SENTENCE-: “Why are you so happy, anything special?”. “No, just the gaiety of nations”.
MEANING-: general cheerfulness or amusement
GO YOUR GAIT
SENTENCE-: Life will always give you chance to go your own gait, the choice is then yours.
MEANING-: pursue your own course
THE GAIETY OF NATIONS??

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PLAY TO THE GALLERY
SENTENCE-: Don’t take him seriously, he just knows how to play to the gallery.
MEANING-: act in an exaggerated or histrionic manner, especially in order to appeal to popular taste
THE GAME IS UP
SENTENCE-: The thieves had not way out, there game was up.
MEANING-: The plan, deception or crime is revealed or foiled.
BE A DAB HAND
SENTENCE-: Picasso was dab hand at painting.
MEANING-: be expert at
LOOK DAGGERS AT
SENTENCE-:The police men looked daggers at thieves.
MEANING-: glare angrily or venomously at
RATTLE YOUR DAGS
SENTENCE-:We are getting late!! Rattle your dags.
MEANING-: HURRY UP
FRESH AS A DAISY
SENTENCE-:People who are successful often behave fresh as a daisy all day.
MEANING-: VERY BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL
PUSHING UP THE DAISIES
SENTENCE-: There is no point pushing up the daisies, what is over, is over.
MEANING-: dead and burried

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Stop making castles in air or else you will soon meet your waterloo. Didn’t understand a word? Read more and find out.

Make castles in the air
Sentence-: To achieve success, you need to stop making castles in air and start working towards the goal.
Meaning-: – plans or hopes that have very little chances of happening.
Make a bee line for
Sentence-: stop wandering and make a bee line for a band 9 in IELTS.
Meaning-:to go directly towards something.
Monkey around
Sentence-: If you really want to achieve high score in IELTS, you need to stop monkeying around.
Meaning-: to waste time here and there
My hands are full
Sentence-: I am sorry I cannot take any more task, my hands are full.
Meaning-: I am busy.
Meet ones waterloo
Sentence-: You need to work hard else in no time you would meet your waterloo.
Meaning-: meet ones final end

WHAT’S THE DAMAGE
SENTENCE-:So, are you buying it? yes, but what is the cost of damage?
MEANING-: it is used to ask the cost of damage
AS NEAR AS DAMMIT
SENTENCE-:Viswanathan Anand is as near as dammit.
MEANING-: as close to being accurate as makes no difference
NOT BE WORTH A DAMN
SENTENCE-: A broken pen is not worthy a damn.
MEANING-: HAVE NO VALUE OR VALIDITY AT ALL
DAMNED IF YOU DO AND DAMNED IF YOU DON’T
SENTENCE-: If I say anything about religion in India it is like damned if I did and damned if I don’t.
MEANING-: in some situations whatever you do is going to attract criticism.
DO YOUR DAMNEDEST
SENTENCE-:If you do your damnedest, nothing else matters.
MEANING-: do or try to do your utmost to do something

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