Idioms and Phrases for SSC CGL Exam - Part 14

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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