50 Important Idioms And Phrases Asked In SSC Exams

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🌹At sixes and seven – In disorder or confusion

🌹Lose head – Panic 

🌹Take to task – To criticize severely/ to punish

🌹Sit in judgement – To pass judgement(or comment on someone ) especially when you have no authority

🌹Leave in the lurch – To desert someone

🌹 Cry over spilt milk – Cry over irreparable loss

🌹Bad blood – Active enmity

🌹Close shave – A narrow escape

🌹Grease palms – To bribe someone

🌹 Carrot and stick – Reward and punishment policy

🌹 To cut teeth – To gain experience of something for the first time

🌹Cut no ice – Had no influence

🌹 Close the book - Stop working on something

🌹In fits and starts - Irregularly

🌹Bird’s eye view – An overview 

🌹Run in the same groove – Clash with each other 

🌹 Keep your head – Remain calm 

🌹Pull strings – Use personal influence

🌹Pot luck dinner – Dinner where somebody brings something to eat

🌹To hit below the belt – To attack unfairly 

🌹All at sea - Puzzled 

🌹 Sought after – Wanted by many people because it’s of good quality or difficult to find/Pursued by 

🌹Build castle in the air - Daydreaming 

🌹On the spur of the moment – To act suddenly, without planning

🌹 To have something up one’s sleeve – To have a secret plan

🌹A red letter day – An important or joyful occasion in one’s life

🌹To explore every avenue – To try every opportunity 

🌹At one’s beck and call – Ready to follow orders/ To be dominated by someone 

🌹By fair or foul means – In honest or dishonest way 

🌹Status quo – As it is/ unchanged position 

🌹To burn candle at both ends – To be extravagant/ Spend without any worry

🌹To hit the jackpot – To make money quickly 

🌹To bring to light – to reveal 

🌹 At the eleventh hour – At the last possible moment 

🌹Go scot-free – To escape without punishment

🌹 To shed crocodile tears – To pretend grief 

🌹To look down one’s nose – To regard with contempt 

🌹 To miss the bus – To miss an opportunity 

🌹 A white elephant – Costly and troublesome possession, with much use to its owner

🌹 To call spade a spade – To be frank

🌹 To fight tooth and nail – To fight heroically, in very determined way

🌹 Birds of same feather – Persons of same character

🌹 Take exception – To object over something 

🌹 High handed – Using authority in an unreasonable way, overbearing

🌹 Too fond of one’s own voice – To like talking without wanting to listen to other people/Very selfish 

🌹By leaps and bounds – Rapidly

🌹 An open book – Straight forward and honest dealings 

🌹 Fall short – Fail to meet expectation/ have no effect 

🌹Heart to heart talk – Frank talk 

🌹Give the game away – Give out the secret(unintentionally)