1.
Wet
blanket – Kill joy
2.
Pass
out – Faint
3.
Teething
problems- Difficulties at the start
4.
Picks
on him – Treats badly
5.
Beaten hallow – Beaten comprehensively
6.
To caste pearl before swine – to offer person
a thing which he cannot appreciate
7.
To
catch a tarter – To Catch a dangerous person
8.
To
beg the Question – To raise objection
9.
Lay
out – Spend
10.
To
cast aspersions – To make unpleasant remarks
11.
Dead
letter – No longer in force
12.
Afraid
of her own – Very nervous and easily frightened
13.
Forty winks – Short nap
14.
Pink
slip – A letter to inform that she/he lost her Job
15.
Cut
above – Rather superior to
16.
Show
the white flag – Surrender
17.
Cut and short – To interrupt one
18.
Foam
at the mouth – Angry
19.
Give
vent to – Express
20.
Husband
our resources – Save
21.
Damocles’
sword- an impending but uncertain danger
22.
Give
oneself the air- pretend to be
23.
Fling
away – to throw aside violently
24.
To
be on the wane- to be diminishing
25.
To
get one’s back up- to become irritated
26.
To
strike oil- to have lucky success
27.
Stick
by- to adhere closely
28.
Wink
at – to pretend not to see
29.
Knit
one’s brows – to frown
30.
To
rate soundly- to censure strongly
31.
To
be no chicken- be no longer young
32.
To
stand on ceremony – to treat with cold rigid civility
33.
To
run in the same grove – to advance in harmony
34.
A
host in himself – capable of doing as much as a number of ordinary persons
35.
Lock
stock and barrel – completely
36.
Hole
and corner – secret
37.
On
his last legs – on his death bed
38.
All
our might and main – full force
39.
Nailed
their colures to their mast- refuse to climb down
40.
Batten
down the hatches – prepare for difficult situation
41.
Flies
off at a tangent – starts discussing something irrelevant
42.
All
moonshine – nonsense
43.
Bring
out the red carpet – decorate
44.
Passed
by – overlooked
45.
Salt
of the earth – good honest and ideal
46.
The
alpha and Omega – Beginning and end
47.
Pin
money – money spent for lusuries
48.
Gerrymandering
– manipulative and unfair way
49.
Rings
a bell – sounds familiar
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