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400 MOST IMPORTANT (repeated) previous year idioms and phrases asked in SSC
CGL CHSL CPO exams(with Hindi meaning)

1) An old head on young shoulders

Meaning- A child or young person who thinks and talks like an older and experienced
person (अपनी उम्र से ज्यादा समझदार होना)

2) An olive branch

Meaning- Peace request/peace treaty (शाां तत तनवे दन)

3) Apple of discord

Meaning- Matter of dispute (झगडे का कारण)

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4) Apple of one’s eye

Meaning- Very lovable/dearest one (प्यारा, दु लारा)

5) Apple pie order

Meaning- In good condition (तिल्कुल ठीक हालत में होना)

6) At a loss

Meaning- To be unable to decide (तनणणय न ले पाना)

7) At a pinch

Meaning- In a trouble (समस्या में होना)

8) At arm’s length

Meaning- Avoid becoming too friendly (दू र रखना, दोस्ती न रखना)

9) At daggers drawn

Meaning- To have bitter enmity (कट्टर दु श्मनी होना)

10) At ease

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Meaning- Free from pain and anxiety (तिन्ता रतहत)

11) At one’s finger ends

Meaning- To have complete knowledge, to be expert in (पू णण जानकारी होना)

12) At one’s wits ends

Meaning- Puzzled/confused/perplexed (ितकत)

13) At sixes and sevens

Meaning- In disorder (अस्त व्यस्त)

14) At stake

Meaning- At risk or insecure (दाां व पर)

15) At the eleventh hour

Meaning- At last moment (अांततम समय में)

16) A man of straw

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Meaning- A man with no voice or will of his own/ (a man of no substance) ( मामूली या
अभावग्रस्त आदमी)

17) A black sheep

Meaning- An unlucky person, Bad characters (अशु भ आदमी)

18) A hard nut to crack

Meaning - difficult problem (गांभीर समस्या)

19) A thorn in the flesh

Meaning - A constant source of annoyance (काम में हमेशा होने वाली िाधा)

20) At one’s beck and call

Meaning - Under one’s control (आज्ञा में होना)

21) An acid test

Meaning- critical test (गांभीर पररक्षण)

22) All eye for an eye

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Meaning- Tit for tat (जैसे को तैसा)

23) At once

Meaning- At the same time, promptly, instant (तु रांत, एक ही समय में)

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24) At home

Meaning- Comfortable (आरामदायकस्थथतत में होना)

25) All in all

Meaning- Most important (सिसे महत्वपूणण)

26) Achilles’ heels

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Meaning- A small but fatal weakness (कमजोर पक्ष)

27) Add fuel to fire

Meaning- To make a matter worse (आग में घी डालना)

28) An arm chair job

Meaning- Good income job with high comfort (आसान एवां अच्छी आय वाली नौकरी)

29) An axe to grind

Meaning- Something done for selfish reasons (स्वाथण से भरा उद्दे श्य)

30) An iron will

Meaning- Strong will power (दृढ़ इच्छाशस्ि)

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31) At a snail’s pace

Meaning- Very slowly (धीमी गतत से)

32) At logger heads

Meaning- In dispute, to fight (शत्रुता की स्थथतत)

33) All at see

Meaning- Completely confused (पूणण रूप से भ्रतमत)

34) A white elephant

Meaning- An expensive but useless possession (महां गा परन्तु िेकार)

35) Axe out

Meaning- To turn out (िाहर करना)

36) Bag and baggage

Meaning- With all belongings (िोररया-तिस्तर समेत)


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37) Baker’s dozen

Meaning- Thirteen in number (सां ख्या में ते रह)

38) Be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth

Meaning- To be born in a rich family (धनी पररवार में पै दा होना)

39) Be in the driving seat

Meaning- Bearing all responsibilities (सारी तजम्मेदारी का भार उठाना)

40) Bear the brunt of

Meaning- To bear the main part of something unpleasant (पररणाम भुगतना, वापसी का कोई
रास्ता न छोडना)

41) Beat about the bush

Meaning- To talk in a roundabout (घु मा तिराकर िातें करना)

42) Beat black and blue

Meaning- Beat mercilessly (अत्यतधक तपटाई करना)

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43) Beat the record

Meaning- to do better than ever before (पहले से अतधक अच्छा करना)

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44) Beat hollow

Meaning- To beat thoroughly and convincingly (कािी आसानी एवां िुरी तरह से परातजत करना)

45) Bed of roses

Meaning- Pleasant situation of comfort (आनांद से भरपू र)

46) Bed of thorns

Meaning- A situation of extremely difficulty (दु ख एवां तकलीि से भरपू र)

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47) Beggar description

Meaning- A person with no source (अवणण नीय)

48) Bell the cat

Meaning- Taking first step at personal risk (जोस्खम उठाना)

49) Bring to light

Meaning- Disclose (तदखाना, उजागर करना)

50) Bread and butter

Meaning- Material welfare (भौततक भलाई)

51) By and by

Meaning- Slowly (धीरे धीरे )

52) Back stair gossip

Meaning - gossip among servants

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53) Back and forth

Meaning- Backward and forward (आगे पीछे )

54) Bad blood

Meaning- Enmity/ bitter relation, Ill feelings (शत्रुता)

55) Between the devil and the deep sea

Meaning- Between two difficult situation (दो गांभीर परे शातनयोां के िीि)

56) Between Scylla and Charybdis

Meaning- Between two difficult situation (दो गांभीर परे शातनयोां के िीि)

57) Big gun

Meaning- An influential person (ऊँिी पहँ ि वाला व्यस्ि)

58) Bird of passage

Meaning- One who comes occasionally (यदा कदा आने वाला)

59) Bird’s eye view

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Meaning- Overview (सरसरी तनगाह वाला)

60) Bird’s of same feather

Meaning- People with the same idea, characteristics and interests (एक ही प्रवृति के लोग)

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61) Bite the dust

Meaning- To be defeated (परातजत होना)

62) Black sheep

Meaning- A person who is regarded as disgrace of his family/team etc (ऐसा आदमी जो
पररवार/टीम के तलए शमीन्दगी का कारण िने)

63) Blind alley


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Meaning- A situation in which no further progress can be made (कायण तजसमें आगे प्रगतत सांभव
नही ां)

64) Blind date

Meaning- A meeting between a girl and a boy, who have not met before (तकसी अांजान व्यस्ि
से तमलना)

65) Blow one’s own trumpet

Meaning- To praise oneself (अपने मुँह तमयाां तमठ् ठू)

66) Blue blood

Meaning- Royal or aristocratic descent (शाही व्यस्ि)

67) Blue book

Meaning- Government report (सरकारी ररपोटण )

68) Body and soul

Meaning- Entirely (पूणणतया)

69) Bolt from the blue


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Meaning- Unexpected problem (आकस्िक तवपति)

70) Bone of contention

Meaning- Subject of a dispute (झगडे का वस्तु/कारण)

71) Boon/blessing in disguise

Meaning- Hidden blessing (तछपा हआ वरदान)

72) Bosom friend

Meaning- Fast friend (तजगरी दोस्त)

73) Break the ice

Meaning- Break the silence/to start a conversation (िुप्पी तोडना)

74) Breathe one’s last

Meaning- To pass way/ to die (मर जाना)

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75) Broad day light

Meaning- In day light (when crime cannot be hidden) ( तदन दहाडे )

76) Broken reed

Meaning- A weak, unreliable person (अतवश्वासी)

77) Brown study

Meaning- A state of deep thought (तविार मग्नता)

78) Bull in the china shop

Meaning- One who is out of place in a dedicated situation (जो जगह के अनुकूल न हो)

79) Burn a hole in the pocket

Meaning- Money spend quickly (शीघ्रता से खिण करना)

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80) Burn one’s finger

Meaning- To get oneself into trouble (खु द का नु कसान कर िैठना)

81) Burn the candle at both ends

Meaning- To work very hard and stay very late at night and get up early in the morning (दे र
रात और सुिह जल्दी मेहनत करना)

82) Burn one’s boats

Meaning- Go back on a decision (िैसला िदलना)

83) Burn the midnight oil

Meaning- Laboring/studying late night (दे र रात तक मेहनत करना)

84) Burning question

Meaning- An important topic, hot issue (कोई खास तवषय)

85) Bury the hatchet

Meaning- To end enmity/hostility (दु श्मनी खत्म करना)

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86) By fits and starts

Meaning- Irregularly/sporadic (अतनयतमत रूप से)

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87) By hook or by crook

Meaning- By any means, right or wrong (तकसी भी हालत में)

88) By leaps and bounds

Meaning- At a rapid pace (तदन दु नी रात िौगुनी)

89) By the skins of one's teeth/ by a whisker

Meaning- Narrowly/ by a hair breadth (थोडे से अां तराल से)

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90) By long adds

Meaning- By a great difference (कािी अां तर से )

91) Bricks and mortar

Meaning- Buildings (भवन)

92) Blow hot and cold

Meaning- Support and oppose (पक्ष एवां तवपक्ष)

93) Bring home

Meaning- To convince (समझाना)

94) Bite one’s lips

Meaning- Control one’s anger (अपने गुस्से को कािू में करना)

95) Beat black and blue

Meaning- To punish severely

96) Bee in one’s bonnet

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Meaning- To be crazy about something (तकसी िीज के तलए पागल होना)

97) Be nipped in the bud

Meaning- To destroy a thing in the very beginning (प्रारम्भ में नष्ट कर दे ना)

98) To be above board

Meaning- To be honest in any business deal (ईमानदार और स्पष्ट)

99) By and large

Meaning- On the whole, speaking generally (मोटे तौर पर)

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100) Blow hot and cold

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Meaning- To be irresolute (कभी समथणन करना कभी तवरोध करना)

101) To be on one’s mind

Meaning- To worry about something (तकसी िात को लेकर तिां ततत होना)

102) Bear the brunt

Meaning- Suffer the most (तकसी घटना के मुख्य प्रभाव को झेलना)

103) To be on the apex

Meaning- To be at the highest point (तशखर पर होना)

104) By the strong hand

Meaning- By force (सख्ती से)

105) To blow one’s stack top or blow a fuse/gasket

Meaning- Lose one’s temper, become extremely angry (आपा खोना)

106) To beat a hasty retreat

Meaning- go away hurriedly (दू र भाग जाना, पीछे हटना)

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107) Cry for the moon

Meaning- To desire the unattainable (तकसी असांभव वस्तु की कामना करना )

108) Cry over spilt milk

Meaning- Regret in vain for what cannot be undone (व्यथण पछताना)

109) Cut a sorry fingure

Meaning- To give a poor show (अपने प्रयास से ततनक भी प्रभाव न छोडना)

110) Cut both ways

Meaning- Argue in favour of both sides ( दोनोां ही पाटी के पक्ष में तकण करना)

111) Cut no ice

Meaning- To fail to make an impression (कोई असर नही ां डालना)

112) Creature comforts

Meaning- Luxuries (तवलातसता)

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113) Curry favour

Meaning- to seek to win favour by gifts or flattery (छल से मदद पाना)

114) Cheek by jowl

Meaning- very close- intimate (घतनष्ठ)

115) Catch a straw

Meaning- to accept help and support even from the insignificant (मदद पाना)

116) Cry wolf

Meaning- go give false alarm (िेवजह हल्ला करना, गलत सूिना दे ना)

117) Call a spade a spade

Meaning- Resist from making controversial statement, be out spoken in language (स्पष्ट िात
कहना)

118) Cut both end

Meaning- Behave dishonestly ( िेईमानी करना)

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119) Cut the Gordian knot

Meaning- To short out the problem (तकसी कतठन समस्या का समाधान)

120) Clear the decks

Meaning- To remove obstructions (कतठनाईयोांको दू र करना)

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121) Crust fallen

Meaning- To be dejected (हिोतसातहत होना)

122) Cool head

Meaning- To have a nature of not easily being excited (शाां त प्रवृति का होना)

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123) Come a cropper

Meaning- To fail completely (पूरी तरह असिल होना)

124) Come back to earth

Meaning- Return to reality (औकात पर आना)

125) Call in question

Meaning- To doubt, find fault with (सां देह होना)

126) Cut a sorry figure

Meaning- Not to leave a good impression (अच्छा प्रभाव न छोडना)

127) Cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth

Meaning- To live within one’s means (अपनी आय केअः अनुसार व्यय करना)

128) Carry the coal to new castle

Meaning- Spending time and energy in doing something that is useless and wastage of
energy (िेवजह मेहनत करना)

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129) Cast pearls before the swine

Meaning- A right thing in a wrong hand िांदर के हाँ थ में नाररयल (तकसी वस्तु को ऐसे व्यस्ि को
दे ना जो उसका मूल्य न समझे)

130) Castles in the air

Meaning- Day dream/a hope or desire unlikely to be realized (हवाई तकला िनाना)

131) Cat and dog life

Meaning- Troublesome life

132) Catch the tarter

Meaning- To grapple with an unexpectedly/ to catch a dangerous person (मजिूत शत्रु से


झगडना)

133) Cat’s paw

Meaning- A person used by another as a dupe or tool (तनजी स्वाथण की पू ततण में तजस व्यस्ि का
प्रयोग तकया जाए)

134) Chew the cud

Meaning- To ponder over/meditate (मनन करना)

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135) Chicken hearted

Meaning- Lacking courage/cowardly (कायर)

136) Cock and bull story

Meaning- A concocted story (मनगढ़ां त कहानी)

137) Crocodile tears

Meaning- An false display of grief (तदखावटी आँ सू)

138) Cross swords

Meaning- To quarrel or fight ( लडना)

139) Dog in the manger

Meaning- A person who prevents others from enjoying what he cannot (जो दू सरोां को उस
सुख का भोग करने नहीां दे ता जो उसके तकसी काम का नही ां)

140) Donkey’s years

Meaning- A long time (कािी समय िाद)

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141) Draw a line

Meaning- Set a limit (मयाण दा तय करना)

142) Duck in a thunder storm

Meaning- In a painful condition (ददण में होना)

143) Do a good turn

Meaning- Do an act of kindness (भलाई का काम करना)

144) Dance to one’s tune

Meaning- Obeying one’s order (हक्म का पालन करना)

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145) Dark horse

Meaning- One who wins unexpectedly ( जो अप्रत्यातशत रूप से जीत जाए)

146) Dead letter

Meaning- A law or ordinance that is no longer enforced (कानून जो कभी लागू था लेतकन अि
लागू नही ां है )

147) Damocles’ sword

Meaning- Constant threat (तसर पर मांडराती खतरा)

148) Die a dog’s death

Meaning- To die a shameful death (लज्जा जनक मौत मरना)

149) Die in harness

Meaning- Die while in service (अपने कायाण वतध के दौरान ही मरना)

150) Eagle eyed

Meaning- With keen eye sight (तेज नजर आना)

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151) Eat humble pie

Meaning- To apologize (शमीन्दगी झे लना)

152) Eat one’s words

Meaning- Take the statement back (शब्द वापस लेना)

153) Eat one’s heart out

Meaning- Suffer silently (तिां ततत होकर खुद सहना)

154) Elbow room

Meaning- Sufficient scope to move or function (काम करने की स्वतांत्रता)

155) End in smoke

Meaning- Come to nothing (कोई पररणाम तनकलना)

156) Escape one’s lips

Meaning- Speak unintentionally or unexpectedly (िोल जाना)

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157) Edge out

Meaning- To push out slowly (धीरे से हटा दे ना)

158) Egg-on

Meaning- to instigate to proceed further (उकसाना)

159) Eke out

Meaning- Supplement income (आमदनी िढ़ाना, तनवाण ह करना)

160) Forty winks

Meaning- A nap (झपकी)

161) French leave

Meaning- A leave without information or permission (तिना सूिना के अनुपस्थथत होना)

162) Fringe benefits

Meaning- An additional benefit apart from salary (वेतन के अलावा तमलने वाला लाभ)

163) From hand to mouth

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Meaning- Providing only bare essential (तसिण गुजारा भर)

164) Flesh and blood

Meaning- A human being with his natural limitation (मानव प्रवृति)

165) Fabian policy

Meaning- Deliberate slow policy/policy of delaying decisions (सावधानीपूणण मांदगतत नीतत)

166) Fair and square

Meaning- in an honest way (तनष्पक्ष)

167) Fair sex

Meaning- Women (नारी जातत)

168) Fair weather friend

Meaning- Selfish friend who are with us only in comfortable situations (मुसीित में साथ न
दे नेवाला तमत्र)

169) Fancy price

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Meaning- At any cost/at demanded prices (मूँहमाां गी तकमत)

170) eather in the cap

Meaning- Additional success (अच्छी उपलस्ि)

171) Feather one’s nest

Meaning- To enrich oneself by taking advantage of one’s position (अपने पद का लाभ उठाकर
कमाई करना, भतवष्य के तलए जुगाड करना)

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172) Fight shy of

Meaning- To attempt to avoid a thing or person (टालना)

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Meaning- To take advantages of the problems of others (तवषम पररस्थथतत का लाभ उठाना)

174) Fish out of water

Meaning- Out of one’s usual and uncomfortable place (कष्टप्रद अवथथा में)

175) Fly in the ointment

Meaning- A light unpleasant thing that obstruct the enjoyment of something (असु तवधा)

176) Fool’s paradise

Meaning- A state of being happy for foolish or unfounded reasons (झूठी उम्मीद में खुश होना)

177) Gala day

Meaning- Celebration day (आनां दोत्सव का तदन)

178) Get away with

Meaning- To escape (िि तनकलना)

179) Get down to

Meaning- To attend to work seriously (काम गांभीरतापू वणक आरम्भ करना)

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180) Get into a soup

Meaning- Get into a trouble (झां झट में पडना)

181) Get into hot water

Meaning- Get into a trouble (समस्या में िांसना)

182) Get off scot free

Meaning- To escape without punishment ( अदस्ित तनकाल जाना)

183) Get on one’s nerves

Meaning- To irritate or annoy (तांग करना)

184) Get the wind of

Meaning- To know the secrets (तकसी भेद को जान लेना)

185) Go the whole hog

Meaning- Do something fully, completely (पू णण रूप से)

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186) Give up the ghost

Meaning- To die, stop working, stop doing something (तकसी को तनतित दायरे के अांदर रखना,
कायण रोकना)

187) Go down well with

Meaning- Applauded by (यथोतित अतभवाद पाना)

188) Get the wind up

Meaning- To be scared (डरना)

189) Give me a hand

Meaning- To take help (मदद लेना)

190) Gain ground

Meaning- Become popular (प्रतसद्ध होना)

191) Gribble- gabble

Meaning- Foolish talk (मूखणतापू णण वाताण लाप, जल्दी जल्दी और अस्पष्ट िोलना)

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192) Gift of the gab

Meaning- To talk well/ talent of speaking ( ितुराई पू वणक, धाराप्रवाह)

193) Give a piece of mind

Meaning- To rebuke, scold (डाँ टना)

194) Go through fire and water

Meaning- To brave any danger (कोई भी खतरा मोल लेना)

195) Go to dogs

Meaning- To deteriorate/degenerate (व्यथण होना)

196) Go to rack and ruin

Meaning- To decay or get destroyed (तवनाश होना)

197) Good Samaritan

Meaning- A person who helps and pays sympathy to those in distress (दयालु व्यस्ि)

198) Grass widow

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Meaning- woman who is separated, divorced or lives apart from her husband (ऐसी तववातहता
तजसका पतत उससे दू र हो)

199) Grease the palm

Meaning- To bribe (ररश्वत दे ना)

200) Green room

Meaning- A lounge in a theatre or studio for the performers to get ready (अतभनेता के वेश-
भूषा का कमरा)

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201) Grist to one’s mill

Meaning- Something that can be used for one’s advantages (िायदे मांद)

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202) Haul over the coals

Meaning- To take to task, to reprimand (कोसना)

203) Have finger in the pie

Meaning- To be involved in something (तकसी कायण में शातमल होना)

204) Have one’s hand full

Meaning- To be completely occupied (काम की कमी नही ां होना)

205) Have one’s way

Meaning- the way one wants (अपनी इच्छा के अनुसार)

206) Have several iron in the fire

Meaning- To be involved in many project or activities at the same time (एक ही समय कई
कायो में शातमल होना)

207) Hen-pecked husband

Meaning- Admirer of one’s own wife in a servile manner ( जोरू का गुलाम)

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208) Herculean task

Meaning- Task requiring tremendous effort (िहत कतठन कायण)

209) High and dry

Meaning- In a deprived situation (alone) ( अकेला )

210) High hand

Meaning- Overbearing (तनरां कुश)

211) Halcyons days

Meaning- Peaceful days (खुशगवार तदन )

212) Hammer and sickle

Meaning- A symbolic representation of communism in general (समाजवाद का प्रतीक)

213) Hand and glove with

Meaning- In close co-operation (अच्छे सहयोग से)

214) Hang by a thread

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Meaning- Be in a risky situation (िहत नाजु क स्थथतत में होना)

215) Hard nut to crack

Meaning- difficult problem to solve/a person difficult to understand (जतटल समस्या/ व्यस्ि)

216) High living

Meaning- Living with comfort and ease (ऐश आराम की तजांदगी)

217) Hit below the belt

Meaning- To strike unfairly गलत तरीके से प्रहार करना)

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218) Hit the jackpot

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Meaning- Gaining a big/great success (specially by luck) (िडी कामयािी तमलना)

219) Hit the nail on the head

Meaning- To do the right thing at the right time (सही समय पर सही िात/ कायण करना)

220) Hobson’s choice

Meaning- No alternatives (कोई तवकल्प न होना)

221) Hole and corner policy

Meaning- Secret policy (गुप्त नीतत)

222) Hold no water

Meaning- Not correct or true (सही नही ां होना)

223) Hue and cry

Meaning- Any loud public outcry (हो-हल्ला)

224) Hush money

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Meaning- Money given to someone to keep something secret (तकसी िात को गुप्त रखने के
तलए तदये जाने वाले पैसे)

225) In the blues

Meaning- In dumps depressed (दु ख में)

226) In the long run

Meaning- Ultimately (अांततः)

227) In the nick of the time

Meaning- At the last possible moment (ठीक समय पर)

228) In the same boat

Meaning- Sharing the same problems (एक ही हालात में)

229) In vogue

Meaning- In the current fashions (प्रितलत)

230) Ins and outs

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Meaning- Intricacies or complications/full detail (तववरण)

231) Iron hand/iron fist

Meaning- Rigorous control (कडाई से)

232) Itching palm

Meaning- Craving for bribe (ररश्वत लेने की आदत होना)

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233) Itsy bitsy

Meaning- Very small or tiny (अत्यां त छोटा सा)

234) In a fix

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Meaning- In difficulty (मुसीित में होना)

235) In no time

Meaning- Very quickly indeed (शीघ्र)

236) In a fog

Meaning- Confused, not able to understand (दु रूह)

237) In a nutshell

Meaning- In very brief form (सां क्षेप में)

238) In black and white

Meaning- In printed or written form (तलस्खत में)

239) In full swing

Meaning- At the height of activity (पूरे जोरोां पर)

240) Jack of all trades and master of none

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Meaning - A person who knows many different kinds of work but is a master of none (जो
आदमी तकसी भी काम में तनपुण ना हो लेतकन, सभी कायों की जानकारी रखता हो)

241) Jail bird

Meaning- A person who is or has been confined in jail (जो जे ल में हो या पहले रह िुका हो)

242) Jaundice eye

Meaning- To look at a conclusion prematurely (पक्षपात पू णण दृतष्टकोण)

243) Kangaroo’s court

Meaning- An illegal court (गैर कानू नी न्यायालय)

244) Keep one’s cards close to one’s chest

Meaning- Hiding something (तकसी िात को तछपाना)

245) Keep one’s finger crosses

Meaning- To wait expectantly ( तकसी अच्छी घटना के होने की कामना करना)

246) Keep one’s word

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Meaning- To keep one’s promises (प्रततज्ञा पु री करना)

247) Keep the ball rolling

Meaning- To maintain the progress of a project or plan (जारी रखना)

248) Keep the wolf from the door

Meaning- To avert poverty/starvation (दररद्रता से सांघषण करना)

249) Kill two birds with one stone

Meaning- Doing two things at the same time while effort is made for one (एक कायण करके दो
समस्याओां से तनपट)

250) Kith and kin

Meaning- Blood relation/Nepotism (िांधु-िाां धव)

251) Knit one’s brow

Meaning- To frown (गुस्सा करना)

252) Lady’s man

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Meaning- A man who is fond of the company of women (जो मतहलाओां के सांगत में रहना पसांद
करता हो)

253) Lame excuse

Meaning- False excuse/baseless excuse (असांतोषजनक िहाना)

254) Left-handed complement

Meaning- An insult disguise as a compliment (प्रशां सा के रूप में अपमान)

255) Lion’s share

Meaning- Large part (सिसे िडा तहस्सा)

256) Live in an ivory tower

Meaning- Living in comfort and being unaware of realities of other’s miseries (सांपन्नता में
जीना एवां आम लोगोां के दु ख से खुद को दू र रखना)

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257) Loaves and fishes

Meaning- Material benefit (व्यस्िगत लाभ)

258) Look of colours

Meaning- Look ill or unhealthy (अस्वथथ तदखाई दे ना)

259) Look through coloured glasses

Meaning- To see with different (झूठे आवरण से दे खना)

260) Lump in the throat

Meaning- tight or uncomfortable feeling in throat due to emotions गला भर जाना (भावनात्मक
क्षण में)

261) Make hay while the sun shines

Meaning- To take the benefit of an opportunity (मौके का लाभ उठाना)

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262) Make or mar

Meaning- To make or destroy (िनाना या तिगाडना)

263) Make the best of both the worlds

Meaning- Getting benefited from both the sides (दोनोां हाथोां में लड् डू)

264) Make up one’s mind

Meaning- To decide (तनिय करना)

265) Man of means

Meaning- A wealthy man (समृद्ध व्यस्ि)

266) Man of iron

Meaning- Man with strong will-power (दृढ़ इच्छाशस्ि वाला व्यस्ि)

267) Man of letter

Meaning- Learned person (तवद्वान आदमी)

268) Man of parts

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Meaning- A man of qualities (सु योग्य व्यस्ि)

269) Man of spirit

Meaning- A man full of enthusiasm (उत्सातहत व्यस्ि)

270) Mad as a march hare

Meaning- Crazy and insane (तसरतिरा)

271) Make a clean breast of

Meaning- To tell the truth about something especially something bad or illegal you have
done or you do (कोई कायण जो आपके द्वारा तकया या ना तकया गया हो को स्वीकारना)

272) Maiden name

Meaning - A woman's surname before marriage

273) Maiden speech

Meaning- First speech ( प्रथम सावणजतनक भाषण)

274) Make a hash

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Meaning- To mess up (गडिड कर दे ना)

275) Make a mountain out of a mole hill

Meaning- To exaggerate a minor difficulty (िात का ितांगड िनाना)

276) Make both ends meet

Meaning- To live within one’s means (आय के अां दर ही गुजारा करना)

277) Man of straw

Meaning- A weak person or idea that is easy to defeat (वह व्यस्ि तजसका कोई मत न हो)

278) Man of the world

Meaning- An experienced person (अनुभवी व्यस्ि)

279) Man of word

Meaning- True to one’s word or promises (जु िान का पक्का)

280) A man of God

Meaning- A male priest (पुजारी)

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281) A match made in heaven

Meaning- A happy and harmonious marriage or partnership (खु शी दे ने वाली शादी या साथी)

282) Mare’s nest

Meaning- A false invention/ rumour (झूठी अफ़वाह)

283) Midas touch

Meaning- A man with extraordinary जादु ई शस्ि (तजस काम में हाँ थ लगाये वह तसद्ध हो जाए)

284) Mince matters

Meaning- To moderate or restrain one’s language (ज्यादा सख्त शब्दोां के प्रयोग से ििना)

285) To mind one’s P’s and Q’s

Meaning- Taking care of behaviour properly (तशष्टािार का पु रा ध्यान रखना)

286) Miss the beat

Meaning- To lose an opportunity (अवसर खोना)

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287) Mother wit

Meaning- Common sense (आम जानकारी)

288) Move heaven and earth

Meaning- To try one’s best (आकाश पाताल एक करना)

289) To make one’s mark

Meaning- Become famous, well known (अपना गहरा प्रभाव छोडना)

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290) Milk of human kindness

Meaning- Good feelings towards others (मानवता से भरा हृदय)

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291) Made of money

Meaning- Very wealthy (िहत धनी)

292) Man of/in the street

Meaning- Ordinary, average person (साधारण व्यस्ि)

293) Make head or tail

Meaning- Understand (समझना)

294) Meet one’s waterloo

Meaning- Make one feel terrified, horrified (अां ततम पराजय)

295) Much cry and little wool

Meaning - Lots of fanfare for something which have very little importance (राई का पहाड
िनाना)

296) Nurse and grudge

Meaning- Bear resentment for long period (शत्रुता का भाव कायम रखना)

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297) Narrow escape/close shave

Meaning- To escape by a little margin (िाल िाल ििना)

298) Nig-nag

Meaning - A noun used to address someone (with jock and furnace)

299) Nine day’s wonder

Meaning - Something that arouses great interest but for a very short period (कम समय का
सुख)

300) Null and void

Meaning- Ineffective (िेकार)

301) Oily tongue

Meaning- Flattering words (खुशामद की भाषा)

302) On one’s guard

Meaning- Vigilant, careful (सावधान रहना)

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303) On one’s last legs

Meaning - Close to collapsing (खत्म होने की स्थथतत में होना)

304) Once for all

Meaning- For the last time/conclusively (हमेशा के तलए काम खत्म करना)

305) Out of sorts

Meaning- Unwell, slightly ill (अस्वथथ होना)

306) Once in a blue moon

Meaning- Very seldom (कभी कभार)

307) Open question

Meaning - question which may have more than one answer (सवाल तजसका एक से अतधक
उिर हो सकता हो)

308) Palmy days

Meaning - Prosperous/affluent days (अच्छे व शाां ततपू णण तदन)

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309) Pandora’s box

Meaning - A source of extensive but unforeseen troubles (समस्याओां का भांडार)

310) Part and parcel

Meaning- Inseparable part (आवश्यक अां ग)

311) Past master

Meaning- An expert (तवशेषज्ञ)

312) Pay the piper

Meaning- To bear the cost of something/some (खिण वहन करना)

313) Pay through his nose

Meaning- To pay dearly (अत्यतधक खिण वहन करना)

314) Penny wise pound foolish

Meaning- Careful about trifles but wasteful in large venture (छोटे खिण में तकिायत करना एवां
िडी रकम उडाना)

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315) Pick up the gauntlet

Meaning- To accept the challenge (िै लेंज किूल कर लेना)

316) Play duck and drakes

Meaning- To waste money (पैसे ििाण द करना)

317) Play second fiddle

Meaning- To be at a subordinate position (तनिला थथान स्वीकारना)

318) Play truant

Meaning- To be absent from duty without permission (तिना इजाजत काम से गायि रहना)

319) Poison someone ears

Meaning- To speak against one to another (कान भरना)

320) Poke one’s nose

Meaning- To interfere (टाँ ग अडाना)

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321) Pour oil on troubled water

Meaning- To pacify the matters (क्रोध शाां त करना)

322) Pros and cons

Meaning- To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages (लाभ हातन का आकलन करना)

323) Pull one’s legs

Meaning- To make fun of or to tease (मजाक उडाना)

324) Pull the wool over somebody’s eyes

Meaning- To mislead/Cheat (धोखा दे ना)

325) Put a spoke in one’s wheel

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Meaning- To obstruct, thwarft the execution of the plan, to stop someone’s plan (िाधा उत्पन्न
करना)

326) Put in cold storage

Meaning- To keep a work pending (काम को लांतित कर दे ना)

327) Put one’s foot down

Meaning- To act firmly (अपने प्रातधकार को लांतित करना)

328) Put one’s shoulders to the wheel

Meaning- To work or exert oneself heavily (स्वयां अपने प्रयासोां से तकसी कायण को करना)

329) Put the cart before the horse

Meaning- To do things wrongly (कोई काम उल्टे सीरे से करना)

330) Put the cat among pigeons

Meaning- To say/do something that causes trouble or make many very angry (िात से कािी
लोगोां का गुस्सा भडका दे ना)

331) Quarrel with one’s bread and butter


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Meaning - To fight with the executive or employer, who is providing one’s means of living
(जहाॅ से रोजी रोटी तमलती है वहाां के वररष्ठ अतधकारी से लडना)

332) Queer fish

Meaning- Strange person (अजीि व्यस्ि)

333) Rain cats and dogs

Meaning- Rain very heavily (तेज िाररश होना)

334) Rainy day

Meaning- Future time of need, especially financial need (आतथण क कष्ट के तदन)

335) Read between the lines

Meaning- To understand the hidden meaning (मतलि जानना)

336) Red handed

Meaning- Exactly while committing a crime or doing something wrong (अपराध करते समय
पकडा जाना)

337) Red letter day


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Meaning- A memorably important or happy occasion (सौभाग्य का अत्यांत महत्वपूणण तदन)

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338) Red tapism

Meaning- Strict adherence to excessive paper work and official formalities (लाल तिताशाही)

339) Rest on one’s laurels

Meaning- Depending on the achievement made in the past (भूतकाल की उपलस्ि पर तनभणर
रहना)

340) Rhyme or reason

Meaning- Sense, logic or meaning (तकसी भी कारण से)

341) Right hand man


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Meaning - One’s most supporter person (मुख्य सहायक व्यस्ि)

342) Rock the boat

Meaning- To disturb a situation which was otherwise stable (सांतुलन तिगाडना)

343) Rolling stone

Meaning- A restless person (जो स्थथरता के साथ काम नही ां करता)

344) Royal road

Meaning- An easy or direct way of achieving a desired result (आसान रास्ता)

345) Rule the roost

Meaning- To dominate (रोि जमाना)

346) Run amuck

Meaning- Made with murderous frenzy (सनक सवार होना)

347) run of the mill

Meaning- Average/common (सामान्य)

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348) Run the gauntlet

Meaning- To go through an unpleasant experience (िुरे अनुभवसे गुजरना)

349) Root and branch

Meaning- completely (पूणणतया)

350) Sail under false colours

Meaning- To pretend to be something that you are not (धोखा दे ना)

351) Save one’s skin

Meaning- To save oneself (स्वयां को ििाना)

352) See eye to eye

Meaning- Showing agreement/to agree (पू णणतः सहमत होना)

353) See pink elephant

Meaning- Any visual hallucination arising due to intoxication (अत्यतधक नशे के कारण उन
िीजोां को दे खना जो वास्तव मे न हो)

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354) See red

Meaning- Be very angry (गुस्से में होना)

355) See through

Meaning- Comprehend (समझ जाना)

356) Set at naught

Meaning- To disregard or treat as of no importance (असम्मान करना)

357) Set one’s face against

Meaning- To oppose with determination (कडा तवरोध करना)

358) Set one’s heart on

Meaning- To have as one’s ambition to obtain something (िहत िाहना)

359) Set one’s teeth on edge

Meaning- To irritate or annoy someone (परे शान करना)

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360) Set the Thames on fire

Meaning- To achieve something amazing (आियणजनक कायण करना)

361) Shoulder to shoulder

Meaning- With united effort (पूणण सहयोग के साथ)

362) Show white feather

Meaning- To show cowardice (भय प्रदतशणत करना)

363) Sine die Meaning-

Indefinitely (अतनतितकाल के तलए)

364) Sit on the fence

Meaning- Refuse to take side in a dispute (तकसी का पक्ष न लेना)

365) Slip of the tongue

Meaning- Spoken unintentionally (जुिान तिसलना)

366) Slow coach

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Meaning- A person with lazy approach of working (आलसी व्यस्ि)

367) Small fry

Meaning- Insignificant person (गैर महत्वपूणण व्यस्ि)

368) Smell a rat

Meaning- To suspect something wrong done (गलत होना महसूस होना)

369) Smooth sailing

Meaning- Easy progress (परे शानी के तिना)

370) Snake in the grass

Meaning- A secret enemy (आस्तीन का साां प)

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371) Shake in the shoes

Meaning- A tremble with fear or apprehension (डर से काां पना)

372) Show the dragon’s teeth

Meaning- To create future trouble for yourself or others (भतवष्य के तलए परे शानी करना)

373) Speak one’s mind

Meaning- Speak what one really thinks (मन की िात करना)

374) Spick and span

Meaning- In order/neat and clean (साफ़ सुथरा)

375) Stand on one’s legs

Meaning- To be self dependent (आत्मतनभणर होना)

376) Stand/stick to one’s guns

Meaning- To be strict and determined (अटल रहना)


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377) State somebody in good stead

Meaning- To be of great use and benefit to someone (लाभदायक होना)

378) Steal a march

Meaning- To obtain an advantage by secret means (िुपके से लाभ प्राप्त कर लेना)

379) Step into another’s shoes

Meaning- To take over a job/responsibility of some other person (तकसी दू सरे की जगह ले
लेना)

380) Stiff-necked person

Meaning - Stubborn or arrogant (ढीठ)

381) Stir a finger

Meaning- Making effort (कोतशश करना)

382) Stone’s throw

Meaning- Very near (िहत नजदीक)

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383) Street Arabs

Meaning- A homeless person (especially who survive by begging) (िेघर व अनाथ)

384) Sum and substance

Meaning- Main idea or gist (साराां श)

385) Swan song

Meaning- The last ceremony or farewell (मरने/ सेवातनवृति के पहले की तवदाई सांगीत या
समारोह)

386) Sweat of one’s brow

Meaning- Hard labour (कडी मेहनत)

387) Swelled head

Meaning- Grand opinion of oneself/conceited (घमांडी)

388) Sworn enemy

Meaning- People enemies (कट्टर दु श्मन)

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389) Sang froid

Meaning- composure (आत्म सां यमी)

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390) Spilling the beans

Meaning- Reveal the information indiscreetly (तिना सोिे जानकारी दे ना)

391) Set the record straight

Meaning- Give a correct account (सही करना)

392) Safe and sound

Meaning - Quite well (तिल्कुल ठीक)

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393) Snake in the shoes

Meaning- To be in a state of fear (डर की अवथथा मेंहोना)

394) Snake in the grass

Meaning- A hidden enemy (आस्तीन का साां प)

395) Salad days

Meaning- Adolescence (तकशोरावथथा, अच्छे तदन)

396) Shake a leg

Meaning- To go fast, hurry (जल्दी जल्दी िलना)

397) Spread like wild fire

Meaning - Spread quickly (जल्दी िैलना)

398) Take away one’s breath

Meaning - Take by storm भौिक्का कर दे ना)

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399) Take by storm

Meaning- To surprise unexpectedly (अिानक प्रभातवत करना)

400) At a pinch

Meaning- In a trouble (समस्या में होना)

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