The mote
in somebody’s eye
|
A very
minor mistake (of somebody)
|
To go
through the motions
|
To work carelessly
|
In a muck
|
In an untidy
situation
|
Not for nuts
|
Under no circumstances
|
To sport
one’s oak
|
To keep one’s
door close
|
Odd and even
|
Game of chance
|
to carry off the palm
|
To be victorious
|
To be par
for the course
|
To be what
one would expect to happen or expect somebody
to do
|
To pay the debt of nature
|
To die
|
To know (somebody) off his pedestal
|
To show that he is no longer highly regarded
|
Penn y
wise and pound foolish
|
shaving small
sums at the risk of large ones
|
To be
in the picture
|
To be
familiar with the matter
|
To pip(somebody) at the post
|
To defeat at the last moment
|
To stretch a point
|
To make
an exception
|
Printer’s devil
|
The youngest apprentice in a printing office
|
To put out feelers
|
Cautiously check the views
of others
|
a/the sixty four dollar question
|
An important question that is very difficult to answer
|
The quick
and dead
|
All people alive or dead
|
In a flat spin
|
In a state
of panic
|
To be the dead spit of
|
Exact counterpart or likeness of
|
To stew
in one’s own juice
|
To suffer
the consequences of one’s own action
|
To strike a chord
|
To say
something that other people sympathize or identify with
|
To have the sun in one’s
eye
|
To drink
|
A month of Sundays
|
A long
period of time
|
to put
to the sword
|
To kill
|
Not for all the
tea in china
|
No matter how great the reward
|
The king
of terror
|
Death
|
As thick as thieves
|
Very friendly
|
The tip of the
iceberg
|
Small but evident
part of a much larger concealed situation
|
A man about town
|
A man who spends
much time at fashionable
parties, clubs, theatres
|
To lay
someone under tribute
|
To impose tax on somebody
|
To swear
like a trooper
|
To use very obscene or blasphemous
language
|
To twiddle one’s thumb
|
To be idle
|
To be up
before somebody
|
To appear in court
|
To take
the veil
|
To become a nun
|
Beyond the veil
|
In the
world high above
|
Null and void
|
Not legally binding , invalid
|
Waifs and strays
|
Homeless children, odds and even
|
Weal and woe
|
Prosperity and adversity
|
A wild cat strike
|
Illegal strike
|
Neck of
the woods
|
Area, neighbourhood
|
Under duress
|
Uncontrolled
|
Look a gift horse in the mouth
|
Find fault with a gift
|
To bear
up with
|
To endure
|
To strike one
|
To realise
suddenly
|
Four days
on end
|
For a long time
|
To drive
home
|
To emphasize
|
Thrust down one’s throat
|
Remind repeatedly
|
Sing froid
|
To remain calm and composed in the
difficult situation
|
Argus eye
|
Observant
|
Big draw
|
A huge
attraction
|
Cog in the wheel
|
An important person
|
To seize
the nettle
|
To deal
with firmly
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