Idiom Sentence: Sr. No

IDIOMS
Sr.
No Idiom Sentence
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1. To Add Fuel To Fire
2. To Add Insult To Injury
3. To be in keep with
4. To be at loss
5. To beat about the bush
6. To bell the cat
7. To bear the brunt of
8. To bid fair
9. To beggar description
10. To blow your own trumpet
11. To blow hot and cold
12. To break the ice
13. To break the news
14. To breath ones last
15. To bridge over
16. To bring to book
17. To bring home
18. To bring to light
19. To bridal ones tongue
20. To burn ones figure
To burn the candle at both

21.
ends
22. To burn ones boats

23. To burn the midnight oil
24. To bury the hatchet
25. Call God to Witness
26. To call into question
27. To call the shots
28. To carry the day
29. To carry weight
30. To cast a spell on
31. Catch someone red handed
32. To catch at a straw
33. To come to grief
34. To come to terms
35. Come to stand still
36. To cry wolf
37. Come to an end
38. To crow over
39. To compare notes
40. Cut someone to quick
41. To cut a sorry figure
42. To die in harness
43. To do away with
44. To do the trick
45. To dash the ground
46. To deliver the goods
47. To eat ones word
48. To drop a line

49. To eat a humble pie
50. To egg on
51. To end in smoke
52. To end in fiasco
To be equal to someone or
53.
something
54. To face the music
55. To fight shy of
56. To fight tooth and nail
57. To fall back upon
58. To fall flat
59. To fall a prey to
60. Fall foul of
61. To find fault with
62. To fall out with
63. To feather ones nest
64. To fish in troubled water
65. To flog a dead horse
66. To follow suit
67. Gain ground
68. Get at the bottom of
69. To get rid of
70. To get into scrape
71. To give a bit of ones mind
72. To give an account of oneself
73. To give up the ghost
74. To give the devil his due

75. To give vent to
76. Give one the sack
77. To go to dogs
78. To go on fools errand
79. To grid up ones lions
80. To go hand in hand
81. To hammer out a plan
82. To have an axe to grind
83. To have a cold feet
84. To have a fly in ones bonnet
85. To have a finger in the pie
86. To hang in the balance
87. To harp on something
88. To hit the nail on the head
89. Hold a brief for
90. To hold in contempt
91. To hold ones ground
92. Hold water
93. To keep abreast of
94. Keep up appearance
To keep body and soul

95.
together
96. To keep an eye on
97. To keep ones fingers crossed
To keep ones head above

98.
water
99. To keep an open house
100. To kick the bucket

101. Lead by the nose
102. To learn by rote
103. To leave one in the lurch
104. To let down
105. To let the cat out of bag
106. To lick the dust
107. Look ahead
108. To look blank
109. Look down upon
110. Look forward
111. Look sharp
112. Live up to
To look / see a gift horse in the

113.
mouth
114. Lose heart
115. Lose ones head
116. Lose ones temper
117. To make away with
118. To make no bones about
119. To make a bee line for
120. To make a clean breast
121. To make both ends meet
122. To make a cats paw
123. To make a face
124. To make a headway
125. To make neither head nor tail
126. Make a mess

127. To make up ones mind
128. Mince matters
129. To mind ones own business
130. Monkey with
131. Mark time
132. To marshal the facts
133. To move heaven and earth
134. To make a virtue of necessity
135. To nip something in the bud
136. To pass away
137. To pay lip service to
138. To play ducks and drakes
139. To play the second fiddle
140. To play truant
141. To pocket an insult
142. To poke ones nose
143. To poke fun at
144. To put two and two together
145. To put or lay heads together
146. To poison ones ears
147. To pull a long face
148. To pull ones leg
149. To put a cart before the horse
150. To rest on ones laurels
151. To rest ones oars
152. To rip open old scores

153. To run riot
154. To run short of
155. To save ones skin
156. To see eye to eye with
157. To set aside
158. To shake up
159. To show a clean pair of
160. To show the white feather
161. To slip through ones fingers
162. To split hair
163. Spread like wild fire
164. To speak daggers
165. To smell a rat
166. To sow ones wild oats
167. To stand on ceremony
168. To stand one in great stead
169. To steal a march upon
170. To strain every nerve
171. To stick to ones guns
172. To stem the tide
173. To steer clear of
174. To swallow the bait
175. To Steal the show
176. Take the bull by the horns
177. Take a fancy to
178. To take ones heels

179. To take a leap in the dark
180. To take a task
181. To throw cold water upon
182. To through dust in ones eye
183. To tide over
184. Turn ones coat
185. Turn tables on
186. Turn turtle
187. Turn over a new leaf
188. To walk away with
189. Wash dirty linen
To wear ones heart up ones

190.
sleeves
191. To win laurels
192. To while away

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IDIOMS

1. To Add Fuel To Fire

2. To Add Insult To Injury

5. To beat about the bush

6. To bell the cat

7. To bear the brunt of

10. To blow your own trumpet

11. To blow hot and cold

12. To break the ice

13. To break the news

14. To breath ones last

15. To bridge over

16. To bring to book

17. To bring home

18. To bring to light

19. To bridal ones tongue

20. To burn ones figure

To burn the candle at both

22. To burn ones boats

24. To bury the hatchet

25. Call God to Witness

26. To call into question

27. To call the shots

28. To carry the day

29. To carry weight

30. To cast a spell on

31. Catch someone red handed

32. To catch at a straw

33. To come to grief

34. To come to terms

35. Come to stand still

36. To cry wolf

37. Come to an end

38. To crow over

39. To compare notes

40. Cut someone to quick

41. To cut a sorry figure

42. To die in harness

43. To do away with

44. To do the trick

45. To dash the ground

46. To deliver the goods

47. To eat ones word

48. To drop a line

51. To end in smoke

52. To end in fiasco

54. To face the music

55. To fight shy of

56. To fight tooth and nail

57. To fall back upon

58. To fall flat

59. To fall a prey to

60. Fall foul of

61. To find fault with

62. To fall out with

63. To feather ones nest

64. To fish in troubled water

65. To flog a dead horse