DID YOU KNOW - THE PHOBIA LIST ?

DID YOU KNOW - THE PHOBIA LIST ??
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1. Acrophobia- Fear of heights
2. Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
3. Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
4. Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
5. Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
6. Felinophobia- Fear of cats.
7. Genophobia- Fear of sex.
8. Harpaxophobia- Fear of being
robbed.
9. Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
10. Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
11. Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure
or defeat.
12. Logizomechanophobia- Fear of
computers.
13. Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
14. Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
15. Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes.
16. Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
17. Quadrataphobia - Fear of quadratic
equations
18. Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
19. Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
20. Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
21. Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
22. Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
23. Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
24. Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign
languages.
25. Ymophobia - Fear of contrariety
26. Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
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Idiomatic Comparisons (मुहावरेदार तुलनायें)

Idiomatic Comparisons (मुहावरेदार तुलनायें)

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अंग्रेजी भाषा में कुछ Idiomatic Comparisons भी होते हैं जो बहुधा एक Adjective और एक Noun से मिलकर बनते हैं, ऐसे कुछ आम प्रयोग में आने वाले खास 50 Comparison की list हम यहां आपके लिए दे रहे है।

1. As black as coal— कोयले जैसा काला 
2. As blind as a bat— चमगादड़ जैसा अन्धा 
3. As brave as a lion— शेर की तरह बहादुर 
4. As bright as noonday— दोपहर की तरह चमकीला 
5. As brittle as glass— शीशे की तरह चटक जाने वाला 
6. As busy as a bee— मधुमक्खी की तरह व्यस्त 
7. As changeable as the moon— चाँद की तरह परिवर्तनशील 
8. As cheerful/gay as a lark— लवा चिड़िया जैसा खुश 
9. As cold as ice— बर्फ की तरह ठंडा 
10. As cold as marble— संगमरमर जैसा ठंडा 
11. As cunning as a fox— लोमड़ी की तरह चालाक 
12. As deaf as a post/pole— खम्भे की तरह बहरा 
13. As deep as a well— कुएँ की तरह गहरा 
14. As dumb as a statue— मूर्ति की तरह गूँगा 
15. As fair as a rose— गुलाब की तरह सुन्दर 
16. As firm as a rock— चट्टान की तरह दृढ़ 
17. As fresh as a daizy— फूल (गुलबहार) की तरह ताजा 
18. As fresh as a rose— गुलाब की तरह ताजा 
19. As gentle as a lamb— भेड़ के बच्चे की तरह सीधा 
20. As good as gold— सोने की तरह खरा 
21. As grave as a judge— जज की तरह गंभीर 
22. As green as grass— घास की तरह हरा 
23. As hard as flint— पत्थर की तरह कठोर 
24. As harmless as a dove— फाख्ते की तरह हानि रहित 
25. As light as a feather— पंख की तरह हल्का 
26. As loud as thunder— बादलों की गर्जन जैसी तेज आवाज 
27. As mad as March hare— ऐसा पागल (उत्तेजित) जैसा मार्च के महीने में खरगोश 
28. As merry as a cricket— झींगुर की तरह उल्लसित 
29. As pale as death— मौत की तरह पीला 
30. As poor as a church mouse— चर्च के चूहे की तरह गरीब 
31. As quick as lightning— आकाशीय बिजली की तरह तेज 
32. As red as a rose— गुलाब की तरह लाल 
33. As rich as a Jew— यहूदी की तरह अमीर 
34. As round as a globe— गोले (पृथ्वी) की तरह गोल 
35. As sharp as a razor— उस्तरे की तरह तेज धार 
36. As silent as the grave— कब्र की तरह शान्त 
37. As slippery as an eel— मछली की तरह फिसलने वाला 
38. As silly as a goose— बतख की तरह बेवकूफ 
39. As sure as death— मृत्यु की तरह निश्चित 
40. As sweet as honey— शहद की तरह मीठा 
41. As swift as an arrow— तीर की तरह तेज 
42. As soft as wax— मोम की तरह मुलायम 
43. As vain as a peacock— मोर की तरह घमंडी 
44. As white as snow— बर्फ की तरह सफेद 
45. As wise as Solomon— सोलोमन संत की तरह बुद्धिमान 
46. as bitter as gall— माजूफल जैसा कड़वा
47. as brisk as butterfly—तितली जैसा चुस्त
48. as bright as gold—सोने जैसा चमकदार
49. as cool as cucumber—खीरे जैसा शीतल
50. as dark as pitch—डामर जैसा काला
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100 Famous Proverbs (प्रसिद्ध लोकोक्तियाँ)

 

100 Famous Proverbs (प्रसिद्ध लोकोक्तियाँ)

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We give below a list of 100 Famous Proverbs (प्रसिद्ध लोकोक्तियाँ) with Hindi Meanings, listed in alphabetical order–

1. A bad man is better than a bad name– बद अच्छा, बदनाम बुरा
2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush– नौ नगद, न तेरह उधार
3. A burnt child dreads the fire– दूध का जला छाछ को फूँक-फूँक कर पीता है
4. A bad workman quarrels with his tools– नाच न जाने आँगन टेढ़ा
5. A drowning man will catch at a straw– डूबते को तिनके का सहारा
6. A figure among cyphers– अंधों में काना सरदार
7. A guilty conscience needs no accuser– चोर की दाढ़ी में तिनका
8. A prophet is not honoured in his own country– घर का जोगी जोगना आन गाँव का सिद्ध
9. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing– नीम हकीम खतरे जान
10. A good face needs no paint– लाल गुदड़ियों में नहीं छिपते
11. A rolling stone gathers no moss– डाँवाडोलकी मिट्टी खराब
12. A lie has no legs– चोर के पैर कहाँ
13. A nod to the wise and a rod to the foolish– चतुर को इशारा, मूर्ख की पिटाई
14. A low-born man feels proud of his honours– कुत्ते को घी नहीं पचता
15. A blind man is no judge of colours– बन्दर क्या जाने अदरक का स्वाद
16. A wise foe is better than a foolish friend – मूर्ख मित्र से चतुर शत्रु अच्छा
17. A friend in need is a friend indeed– समय पर काम आने वाला दोस्त ही सच्चा दोस्त है
18. A good name is better than riches– लाख जाय पर साख न जाय
19. Act in haste, repent at leisure– जल्दी करो, जीवन भर रोओ
20. Adversity is the touchstone of friendship– वि​पत्ति मित्रता की कसौटी है
21. All that glitters is not gold – हाथी के दाँत खाने के और दिखाने के और
22. All covet, all lose– आधी छोड़ साझी को धावै, आधी रहे न साझी पावै
23. All’s well that ends well– अन्त भला तो सब भला
24. All your geese are swans– अपना गधा भी घोड़ा मालूम होता है
25. An unhappy man’s cart is sure to tumble– कंगाली में आटा गीला
26. An old dog learns no new tricks– बूढ़े तोते कुरान नहीं पढ़ते
27. An empty mind is a devil’s workshop– खाली दिमाग शैतान का घर
28. An empty vessel makes much noise– थोथा चना बाजे घना
29. As you sow, so shall you reap– जैसी करनी वैसी भरनी
30. As the crow is, so the eggs shall be– चूहे के बच्चे बिल ही खोदते हैं
31. At length the fox turns monk– नौसे चूहे खाइ बिल्ली हज को चली
32. Barking dogs seldom bite–गरजते हैं सो बरसते नहीं
33. Birds of the same feather flock together– चोर-चोर मौसाइते भाई
34. Blood is thicker than water– खून को खून पहचानता है
35. Care kills the cat– चिन्ता बुरी बला है.
36. Charity begins at home– अंधा बाँटे रेवड़ी, फिर-फिर घर को देइ
37. Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin– अपना अपना ही है और पराया पराया ही
38. Coming events cast their shadows before– पूम के पाँव पालने में
39. Cut your coat according to your cloth– तेते पाँव पसारिये जेती लम्बी सौर
40. Death’s day is doom’s day– आप मरे जग प्रलय
41. Deep rivers move in silent majesty, shallow brooks are noisy– अधजल गगरी छलकत जाय, भरी गगरिया चुप्पे जाय
42. Diamond cuts diamond– लोहे को लोहा काटता है
43. Distance lends enchantment to the view– दूर के ढोल सुहावने
44. Do good and forget– नेकी कर दरिया में डाल
45. Even walls have ears– दीवारों के भी कान होते हैं
46. Every sable cloud has a silver lining– अँधेरे में भी आशा की किरण होती
47. Everybody’s business is nobody’s business– साझे की हँड़िया चौराहे पर फूटती है.
48. Everything looks pale to the jaundiced eye– सावन के अंधे को हरा ही हरा दीखता है
49. Excess of everything is bad– अति हमेशा बुरी होती है
50. Face is not the index of the heart– हृदय की जाँच चेहरे से नहीं हो सकती
51. First deserve, then desire– यह मुँह और मसूर की दाल
52. From a bad paymaster get what you can– भागते भूत की लँगोटी भली
53. Give an inch and he will take an ell– उँगली पकड़ के कहुँचा पकड़ना
54. God’s mill grinds slow but sure– भगवान के घर देर है, अन्धेर नहीं
55. Half a loaf is better than no bread– घी न खाया कुप्पा ही बजाया
56. Haste makes waste– जल्दी का काम शैतान का
57. He gives thrice who gives in a trice– तुरंत दान महा कल्यान
58. Heads I win, tails you lose– चित्त भी मेरी पट्ट भी मेरी
59. His bread is buttered on both sides– पाँचों उँगलियाँ घी में
60. Hope lasts with life– जब तक साँस तब तक आस
61. Hunger is the best sauce– भूख में किवाड़ पापड़
62. I talk of chaff; he hears of cheese– कहे खेत की, सुने खलिहान की
63. If the sky falls we shall catch larks– न नौ मन तेल होगा न राधा नाचेगी
64. Ill got, ill spent– पाप का धन मिट्टी में मिलता है
65. It is no use casting pearls before swine– भैंस के आगे बीन बजाना
66. It is hard to live in Rome and fight with the Pope– दरिया में रहकर मगर से बैर
67. It is no use crying over spilt milk– अब पछताये होत क्या जब चिड़ियाँ चुग गईं खेत
68. It takes two to make a quarrel– एक हाथ से ताली नहीं बजती
69. Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man– साँप को दूध पिलाना
70. Little grief is loud, great griefs are silent– बिच्छू का काटा रोवे, साँप का काटा सोवे
71. Many hands make the burden light– सात-पाँच की लाकड़ी एक जने का बोझ
72. Might is right– जिसकी लाठी उसकी भैंस
73. Money makes the mare go– दाम सब कराता है
74. Necessity is the mother of invention– आवश्यकता आविष्कारों की जननी है
75. Necessity knows no law– आपत्ति काले मर्यादा नास्ति
76. Out of the frying pan into the fire– चूल्हे से निकले भाड़ में गिरे
77. Penny wise and pound foolish– मोहरों की लूट, कोयलों पर छाप
78. Practice makes a man perfect– काम सब सिखा देता है
79. Pride goes before a fall– घमंडी का सिर नीचा
80. Prosperity finds friends; adversity tries them– समृद्धि में पाओ, विपत्ति में परखो
81. Rome was not built in a day– हथेली पर सरसों नहीं जमती
82. Save life save all– जान बची और लाखों पाये
83. See which way the wind blows– ऊँट किस करवट बैठता है
84. Self-praise is no recommendation– अपने मुँह मियाँ मिट्ठू
85. Strike while the iron is hot– मौका न चूकना चाहिये
86. The nearer the church the farther from God– दिये तले अँधेरा
87. The cowl does not make a monk– गेरुए कपड़ों से कोई साधू नहीं होता
88. There is no rose without a thorn– जहाँ फूल तँह काँटा
89. There are men and men– पाँचों उँगली बराबर नहीं होतीं
90. The wearer knows where the shoe pinches– जिसका दु:ख वही जाने
91. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones– काँच के घर में रहने वालों को पत्थर नहीं फेंकने चाहिये
92. Time is a great healer– समय सब दु:ख भुला देता है
93. Time and tide wait for nobody– अवसर और समय किसी का इन्तजार नहीं करते
94. To kill two birds with one stone– एक पंथ दो काज
95. To have an old head on young shoulders– पेट में दाड़ी
96. To swallow the whole ox and be choked with the tail– गुड़ खाय, गुलगुलों से परहेज
97. Too many cooks spoil the broth– अनेक हकीम रोगी की मौत
98. Welcome or not, I am still your guest– मान न मान मैंत तेरा मेहमान
99. Where there is a will there is a way– जहाँ चाह, वहाँ राह
100. While in Rome, do as the Romans do– जैसा देश वैसा भेष 
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One Word Substitution with Meaning

One Word Substitution with Meaning 

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1. Audience – a number of people listening to a lecture 
2. Altruist – one, who considers the happiness and well-being of others first 
3. Atheist – a person who does not believe in God 
4. Anthropologist – one, who studies the evolution of mankind 
5. Autocracy – government by one person 
6. Autobiography – the life history of a person written by himself 
7. Amputate – to cut off a part of a person's body which is infected 
8. Arsenal – a place for ammunition and weapons 
9. Archives – a place where government or public records are kept 
10. Amateur – a man who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession

11. Aristocracy – government by the nobles 
12. Aquatic – animals/plants ere which live in water 
13. Amphibian – animals which live both on land and sea 
14. Ambidexter – one, who can use either hand with ease 
15. Alimony – allowance paid to wife on legal separation 
16. Anthology – a collection of poems 
17. Abdication – voluntary giving up of throne in favour of someone 
18. Arbitrator – a person, appointed by two parties to solve a dispute 
19. Astronomer – a person, who studies stars, planets and other heavenly bodies 
20. Astrologer – a person who studies the influence of heavenly bodies on human beings 
21. Anthology – a collection of poems 
22. Axiom – a statement which is accepted as true without proof 
23. Agenda – a list of headings of the business to be transacted at a meeting 

24. Anarchist – one, who is out to destroy all governance, law and order 
25. Almanac – an annual calender with positions of stars 
26. Bigamy – the practice of having two wives or husbands at a time 
27. Bibliophile – a lover and collector of books 
28. Bouquet – a collection of flowers 
29. Bureaucracy – government by the officials 
30. Belligerent – a person, nation that is involved in war 
31. Biennial – an event which happens once in two years 
32. Blasphemy – the act of speaking disrespectfully about sacred things 
33. Creche – a nursery where children are cared for while their parents are at work 
34. Cosmopolitan – a person who regards whole world as his country 
35. Chauffeur – one, who is employed to drive a motor car 
36. Curator – a person incharge of a museum 
37. Carnivorous – one, who lives on flesh 
38. Cannibal – one, who feeds on human flesh 
39. Contemporaries – belonging to or living at the same time 
40. Cloak room – a place for luggage at railway station 
41. Cynosure – centre of attraction 
42. Connoisseur – a critical judge of any art and craft 
43. Crusade – a religious war 
44. Choreographer – one, who teaches dancing 
45. Cacographist – a person, who is bad in spellings 
46. Calligraphist – a person, who writes beautiful handwriting 
47. Cynic – one, who sneers at the aims and beliefs of his fellow men 
48. Convalescent – one, who is recovering health 
49. Cavalry – soldiers, who fight on horse back 
50. Cardiologist – a person, who is specialist in heart diseases 
51. Cartographer – one, who draws maps 
52. Dormitory – the sleeping rooms with several beds especially in a college or institution 
53. Drawn – a game that results neither in victory nor in defeat 
54. Elegy – a poem of lamentation 
55. Epitaph – words which are inscribed on the grave or the tomb in the memory of the buried 
56. Ephemeral – lasting one day 
57. Effeminate – a person who is womanish 
58. Emigrant – a person who leaves his own country and goes to live in another 
59. Edible – fit to be eaten 
60. Egotism – practice of talking too much about oneself 
61. Encyclopaedia – a book that contains information on various subjects 
62. Epicure – one, who is devoted to the pleasure of eating and drinking 
63. Florist – one, who deals-in flowers 
64. Fastidious – one, who is very -selective in one's taste 
65. Fanatic or Bigot – one, who is filled with excessive and mistaken enthusiasm in religious matters 
66. Fatal – causing death 
67. Fatalist – one, who believes in fate 
68. Facsimile – an exact copy of handwriting, printing etc 
69. Fauna – the animals of a certain region 
70. Flora – the plants of a particular region 
71. Fratricide – murder of brother 
72. Fugitive – one, who runs away from justice or the law 
73. Fragile – easily broken 
74. Feminist – one, who works for the welfare of the women 
75. Granary – a place for grains 
76. Genocide – murder of race 
77. Gregarious – animals which live in flocks 
78. Hangar – a place for housing aeroplanes 
79. Hive – a place for bees 
80. Horticulture – the art of cultivating and managing gardens 
81. Homicide – murder of man 
82. Hearse – a vehicle which is used to carry a dead body 
83. Hedonist – one, who believes that pleasure is the chief good (sensual) 
84. Horizon – a line at which the earth and the sky seem to meet 
85. Honorary – holding office without any remuneration 
86. Heretic – one, who acts against religion 
87. Herbivorous – one, who lives on herbs 
88. Insolvent/Bankrupt – a person who is unable to pay his debts 
89. Inaudible – a sound that cannot be heard 
90. Inaccessible – that cannot be easily approached 
91. Incorrigible – incapable of being corrected 
92. Irreparable – incapable of being repaired 
93. Illegible – incapable of being read 
94. Inevitable – incapable of being avoided 
95. Impracticable – incapable of being practised 
96. Immigrant – a person who comes to one country from another in order to settle there 
97. Invincible – one, too strong to be overcome 
98. Indelible – that cannot be erased 
99. Incognito – travelling under another name than one's own 
100. Indefatigable – one, who does not tire easily 
101. Infallible – one, who is free from all mistakes and failures 
102. Invigilator – one, who supervises in the examination hall 
103. Itinerant – one, who journeys from place to place 
104. Infirmary – a home or room used for ill or injured people 
105. Infanticide – murder of an infant 
106. Infantry – soldiers, who fight on foot 
107. Inflammable – liable to catch fire easily 
108. Interregnum – a period of interval between two reigns or governments 
109. Kennel – a place for dogs 
110. Lunatic asylum – a home for lunatics 
111. Lexicographer – one, who compiles a dictionary 
112. Loquacious – one, who talks continuously 
113. Linguist – one, who is skilled in foreign languages 
114. Lapidist – one, who cuts precious stones 
115. Misanthrope – a hater of mankind 
116. Misogamist – one, who hates marriage 
117. Mortuary – a place, where dead bodies are kept for post mortem 
118. Mercenery – working only for the sake of money 
119. Matricide – murder of mother 
120. Martyr – one, who dies for a noble cause 
121. Maiden speech – the first speech delivered by a person 
122. Mint – a place where coins are made 
123. Misogynist – a hater of womankind 
124. Morgue – a place, where dead bodies are kept for identification 
125. Mammals – animals which give milk 
126. Monogamy – the practice of marrying one at a time 
127. Missionary – a person, who is sent to propagate religion 
128. Numismatics – the study of coins 
129. Namesake – a person having same name as another 
130. Nostalgia – a strong desire to return home, home sickness 
131. Novice or Tyro – one, new to anything, inexperienced 
132. Narcotic – a medicine for producing sleep 
133. Optimist – a person who looks at the brighter side of things 
134. Orphan – one, who has lost parents 
135. Omnipresent – one, who is present everywhere 
136. Omnipotent – one, who is all powerful 
137. Omniscient – one, who knows everything 
138. Opaque – that which cannot be seen through 
139. Obituary – an account in the newspaper of the funeral of the one deceased 
140. Orphanage – a home for orphans 
141. Obstetrician – one, who is skilled in midwifery 
142. Ostler – one, who looks after horses at an inn 
143. Omnivorous – one, who eats everything 
144. Pessimist – a person who looks at the darker side of things 
145. Potable – fit to drink 
146. Post mortem – an examination of dead body 
147. Philanthropist – a lover of mankind 
148. Patricide – murder of father
149. Philatelist – one, who collects stamps 
150. Plagiarism – literary theft or passing off an author's original work as one's own 
151. Polygamy – the practice of marrying more than one wife at a time 
152. Polyandry – the practice of marrying more than one husband at a time 
153. Philogynist – a lover of womankind 
154. Plebiscite – (a decision made by) votes of all qualified citizens 
155. Philanderer – one, who amuses himself by love making 
156. Philistine – one who does not care for art and literature 
157. Plutocracy – government by the rich 
158. Pseudonym – an imaginary name assumed by an author for disguise 
159. Posthumous – a child born after the death of his father or the book published after the death of the writer 
160. Panacea – a remedy for all diseases 
161. Paediatrician – a person, who is specialist in child diseases 
162. Platitude – ordinary remarks often repeated 
163. Pedant – one, who makes a vain display of his knowledge 
164. Polyglot – one, who speaks many languages 
165. Paleography – the study of ancient writing 
166. Posse – a number of policemen called to quell a riot 
167. Parole – pledge given by a prisoner for temporary release, not to escape 
168. Pedestrian – one, who goes on foot 
169. Portable – that can be carried easily 
170. Quarantine – an act of separation from other persons to avoid infection 
171. Rhetoric – the art of elegant speech or writing 
172. Regicide – murder of King or Queen 
173. Sacrilege – violating or profaning religious things/places 
174. Sculptor – one, who cuts in stones 
175. Suicide – murder of oneself 
176. Stable – a place for horses 
177. Somnambulist – a person, who walks in sleep 
178. Somniloquist – a person, who talks in sleep 
179. Souvenir – a thing kept as a reminder of a person, place or event 
180. Swan song – the last work (literary) of a writer 
181. Sot, Toper – one, who is a habitual drunkard 
182. Sinecure – a job with high salary but little responsibility 
183. Stoic – a person, who is indifferent to pleasure and pain and has control over his passions 
184. Sanatorium – a place for the sick to recover health 
185. Sororicide – murder of sister 
186. Triennial – an event which happens once in three years 
187. Truant – a person/student who absents himself from class or duty without permission 
188. Teetotaller – one, who does not take any intoxicating drink 
189. Transparent – that which can be seen through 
190. Theocracy – government by religious principles 
191. Uxorious – one extremely fond of one's wife 
192. Utopia – an imaginary perfect social and political system 
193. Uxoricide – murder of wife 
194. Verbatim – repetition of speech or writing word for word 
195. Volunteer – one, who offers one's services 
196. Virgin – a woman who has no sexual experience 
197. Versatile – interested in and clever at many different things 
198. Veteran – one, who has a long experience of any occupation 
199. Venial – a fault that may be forgiven 
200. Wardrobe – a place for clothes

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LIST OF FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS

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 LIST OF FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS

● A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Arthur Conan Doyle
● Adhe Adhure : Mohan Rakesh
● A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
● A China Passage : J.K. Galbraith
● Aesop’s Fables : Aesop
● A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
● A Midsummer Night’s Dream : William Shakespeare
● A Million Mutinies, Now : V.S. Naipal
● An iron Will : Swett Marden
● A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
● A Passage to India : E.M. Forster
● A Prisoner’s Scrapbook : L.K. Advani
● A Season of Ghosts : Ruskin Bond
● A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth
● A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
● A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
● A Voice for Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
● Aenied : Virgil
● Against the Tide : Minoo Masani
● Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
● A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrik Moyihan
● A Haunted House : Virginia Woolf
● Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
● Amar Kosha : Amar Singh
● Anand Math : Bankim Chandra Chatterje
● A Story of History : Arnold Toynbee

● Avanti Sundari : Dandi
● Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
● As You Like It : W. Shakespeare
● Between the Lines : Kuldeep Nayyar
● Bhagwad Gita : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Black Wednesday : Promila Kalhan
● Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
● Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosh
● Bal Gitayan : D.P. Maheshwari
● Bitter Sweet : Noel Coward
● Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
● Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
● Canterbury Tales : Chaucer
● Chidambara : Sumitra Nandan Pant
● Chitralekha : Bhagwati Charan Verma
● City of Joy : Dominique Lapierre
● Confessions of a Lover : Mulk Raj Anand
● Comedy of Errors : Shakespeare
● Communist Manifesto : Karl Marx
● Comus : John Milton
● Confidential Clerk : T.S. Eliot
● Coolie : Mulk Raj Anand
● Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
● Childe Harold : Lord Byron
● Chittirappavai : P.V. Akhilandam
● Degeneration of India : T.N. Seshan
● Devdas : Sharat Chandra
● Divine Comedy : Dante
● Discovery of India : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Don Ouixote : Cervantes
● Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : R.L. Stevenson
● Dash Kumar Charitam : Dandi
● Dark Room, The : R.K. Narayan
● Debacle : Emile Zola
● Diana, The True Story : A. Morton
● Deserted Village : Goldsmith
● Distant Drums : Manohar Malgaonkar
● Emma : Jane Austen
● Ends and Means : Aldous Huxley
● Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
● Emperor Jones, The : Eugene O’ Neill
● Essays on Gita : Sri Aurbindo Ghosh
● Every Man a King : Swett Marden
● Father and Sons : Ivan Turganev
● Faust : Goethe
● For Whom the Bell Tolls : Ernest Hemingway
● Flames from the Ashes : P.D. Tandon
● Friends, Not Masters : Ayub Khan
● Gathering Storm : Winston Churchill
● Geet Govind : Jaya Dev
● Ghasiram Kotwal : Vijay Tendulkar
● Gitanjali : R.N. Tagore
● Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
● Glimpses of World History : J.L. Nehru :
● Godan : Premchand
● God Father, The : Mario Puzo
● Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
● Great Tragedy : Z.A. Bhutto
● Guide, The : R.K. Narayan
● Hamlet : William Shakespeare
● Harsha Charit : Bana Bhatt
● Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawar Jhabwala
● Himalayan Blunders : Brig. J.P. Dalvi
● House Divided : Pearl S. Buck
● Idle Hours : R.K. Laxman
● Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
● Idylls of the King : Lord, Alfred Tennyson
● If I am Assassinated : Z.A. Bhutto
● Isabela : Keats
● Illiad : Homer
● Inside the C.B.I. : Joginder Singh
● India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
● India Wins Freedom : Maulana Azad
● Indian War of Independence : V.D. Savarkar
● Jean Christopher : Romian Rolland
● Judgement, The : Kuldip Nayyar
● Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
● Jurassic Park : Michael Chrichton
● Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
● Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
● Kamayani : Jay Shankar Prasad
● Kamasutra : S.H. Vatsayayan
● Kaya Kulp : Premchand
● King Lear : W. Shakespeare 
● Lajja : Tasleem Nasreen
● Lady Chhatterley’s Lover : D.H. Lawrence
● Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
● Life Divine : Sri Aurbindo
● Living History : Hillary Rodham Clinton
● Living with Honour : Shiv Khera
● Lolita : Vladimir Nobokov
● Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
● Less Miserable : Victor Hugo
● Macbeth : Shakespeare
● Madhushala : Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’
● Mahabharata : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Major Barbara : G.B. Shaw
● Malti Madhav : Bhavbhuti
● Malvikagnimitra : Kalidas
● Man and Superman : G.B. Shaw
● Meghdoot : Kalidas
● Men Who Killed Gandhi : Manohar Magaonkar
● Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare
● Middle March : George Eliot
● Midnight Children : Salman Rushdie
● Mother : Maxim Gorky
● Mudra Rakshasa : Vishakha Datt
● Murder in the Cathedral : T.S. Eliot
● My Experiments with Truth : Gandhi
● Nana : Emile Zola
● Natya Shastra : Bharat Muni
● Netaji Dead or Alive : Samar Guha
● Nine Days’ Wonder : John Mansfield
● Ninteen Eighty Four : George Orwell
● O’ Jeruselam : L. Collins and D. Lapierre
● Odyssey : Homer
● Old Man and the Sea : Ernest Hemingway
● Of Human Bondage : Somerset Maugham
● Our India : Minoo Masani
● Out of Dust : F.D. Karaka
● On Contradiction : Mao-Tse-Tung
● Pakistan, The Gathering Storm : Behazir Bhutto
● Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
● Pather Panchali : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya
● Peace has no Alternative : Mikhail Gorbachev
● Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
● Pilgrim’s Progress : John Bunyan
● Prathma Pratishruti : Ashapoorna Devi
● Price and Prejudice : Jane Austin
● Prince : Machiaveli
● Peter Pan : J.M. Barrie
● Principia : Isaac Newton
● Raghuvansha : Kalidasa
● Rajtaringini : Kalhan
● Ram Charit Manas : Tulsidas
● Ramayana : Valmiki
● Rangbhoomi : Premchand
● Ratnavali : Harshavardhan
● Robaiyat : Omar Khayyam
● Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
● Rugby Chapel : Mathew Arnold
● Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
● Satyarth Prakash : Swami Dayanand
● Shakuntalam : Kalidas
● Shahnama : Firdausi
● Social Contract : Rousseau :
● Sursagar : Surdas
● Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
● Testament of Beauty : Robert Bridges
● The Blind Assassin : Margaret Atwood
● The Emperor’s New Suit : Hans Chrishtian Anderson
● Three Musketeers : Alexander Dumas
● The Otherness of Self : Feroz Varun Gandhi
● The Elephant Paradigm : Gurcharan Das
● The Affluent Society : J.K. Galbraith
● The God of Small Things : Arundhati Roy :
● The Inheritance of Loss : Anita Desai
● The Legacy of Nehru : K. Natwar Singh
● Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
● Treasure Island : R.L. Stevenson
● Trail of Jesus : John Masefield
● Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Mrs. Haraiet Stowe
● Unhappy India : Lajpat Rai
● Utopia : Tomas Moor
● Unto The Last : John Ruskin
● Untold Story : B.M. Kaul
● Urvashi : Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
● Uttara Ram Charita : Bhav Bhuti
● Universe Around Us : James Jeans
● Vanity Fair : Thackeray
● Victim, The : Saul Bellow
● Village, The : Mulk Raj Anand
● Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas
● Voskresenia : Leo Tolstoy
● War and Peace : Tolstoy
● Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
● We Indians : Khushwant Singh
● Waiting for God : Thomas Becket
● Wings of Fire : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
● Yama : Mahadevi Verma
● Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody
● Zhivago, Dr. : Boris Pasternak

● A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Arthur Conan Doyle
● Adhe Adhure : Mohan Rakesh
● A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
● A China Passage : J.K. Galbraith
● Aesop’s Fables : Aesop
● A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
● A Midsummer Night’s Dream : William Shakespeare
● A Million Mutinies, Now : V.S. Naipal
● An iron Will : Swett Marden
● A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
● A Passage to India : E.M. Forster
● A Prisoner’s Scrapbook : L.K. Advani
● A Season of Ghosts : Ruskin Bond
● A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth
● A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
● A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
● A Voice for Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
● Aenied : Virgil
● Against the Tide : Minoo Masani
● Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
● A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrik Moyihan
● A Haunted House : Virginia Woolf
● Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
● Amar Kosha : Amar Singh
● Anand Math : Bankim Chandra Chatterje
● A Story of History : Arnold Toynbee

● Avanti Sundari : Dandi
● Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
● As You Like It : W. Shakespeare
● Between the Lines : Kuldeep Nayyar
● Bhagwad Gita : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Black Wednesday : Promila Kalhan
● Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
● Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosh
● Bal Gitayan : D.P. Maheshwari
● Bitter Sweet : Noel Coward
● Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
● Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
● Canterbury Tales : Chaucer
● Chidambara : Sumitra Nandan Pant
● Chitralekha : Bhagwati Charan Verma
● City of Joy : Dominique Lapierre
● Confessions of a Lover : Mulk Raj Anand
● Comedy of Errors : Shakespeare
● Communist Manifesto : Karl Marx
● Comus : John Milton
● Confidential Clerk : T.S. Eliot
● Coolie : Mulk Raj Anand
● Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
● Childe Harold : Lord Byron
● Chittirappavai : P.V. Akhilandam
● Degeneration of India : T.N. Seshan
● Devdas : Sharat Chandra
● Divine Comedy : Dante
● Discovery of India : Jawaharlal Nehru
● Don Ouixote : Cervantes
● Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : R.L. Stevenson
● Dash Kumar Charitam : Dandi
● Dark Room, The : R.K. Narayan
● Debacle : Emile Zola
● Diana, The True Story : A. Morton
● Deserted Village : Goldsmith
● Distant Drums : Manohar Malgaonkar
● Emma : Jane Austen
● Ends and Means : Aldous Huxley
● Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
● Emperor Jones, The : Eugene O’ Neill
● Essays on Gita : Sri Aurbindo Ghosh
● Every Man a King : Swett Marden
● Father and Sons : Ivan Turganev
● Faust : Goethe
● For Whom the Bell Tolls : Ernest Hemingway
● Flames from the Ashes : P.D. Tandon
● Friends, Not Masters : Ayub Khan
● Gathering Storm : Winston Churchill
● Geet Govind : Jaya Dev
● Ghasiram Kotwal : Vijay Tendulkar
● Gitanjali : R.N. Tagore
● Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
● Glimpses of World History : J.L. Nehru :
● Godan : Premchand
● God Father, The : Mario Puzo
● Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
● Great Tragedy : Z.A. Bhutto
● Guide, The : R.K. Narayan
● Hamlet : William Shakespeare
● Harsha Charit : Bana Bhatt
● Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawar Jhabwala
● Himalayan Blunders : Brig. J.P. Dalvi
● House Divided : Pearl S. Buck
● Idle Hours : R.K. Laxman
● Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
● Idylls of the King : Lord, Alfred Tennyson
● If I am Assassinated : Z.A. Bhutto
● Isabela : Keats
● Illiad : Homer
● Inside the C.B.I. : Joginder Singh
● India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
● India Wins Freedom : Maulana Azad
● Indian War of Independence : V.D. Savarkar
● Jean Christopher : Romian Rolland
● Judgement, The : Kuldip Nayyar
● Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
● Jurassic Park : Michael Chrichton
● Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
● Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
● Kamayani : Jay Shankar Prasad
● Kamasutra : S.H. Vatsayayan
● Kaya Kulp : Premchand
● King Lear : W. Shakespeare 
● Lajja : Tasleem Nasreen
● Lady Chhatterley’s Lover : D.H. Lawrence
● Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
● Life Divine : Sri Aurbindo
● Living History : Hillary Rodham Clinton
● Living with Honour : Shiv Khera
● Lolita : Vladimir Nobokov
● Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
● Less Miserable : Victor Hugo
● Macbeth : Shakespeare
● Madhushala : Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’
● Mahabharata : Maharshi Ved Vyas
● Major Barbara : G.B. Shaw
● Malti Madhav : Bhavbhuti
● Malvikagnimitra : Kalidas
● Man and Superman : G.B. Shaw
● Meghdoot : Kalidas
● Men Who Killed Gandhi : Manohar Magaonkar
● Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare
● Middle March : George Eliot
● Midnight Children : Salman Rushdie
● Mother : Maxim Gorky
● Mudra Rakshasa : Vishakha Datt
● Murder in the Cathedral : T.S. Eliot
● My Experiments with Truth : Gandhi
● Nana : Emile Zola
● Natya Shastra : Bharat Muni
● Netaji Dead or Alive : Samar Guha
● Nine Days’ Wonder : John Mansfield
● Ninteen Eighty Four : George Orwell
● O’ Jeruselam : L. Collins and D. Lapierre
● Odyssey : Homer
● Old Man and the Sea : Ernest Hemingway
● Of Human Bondage : Somerset Maugham
● Our India : Minoo Masani
● Out of Dust : F.D. Karaka
● On Contradiction : Mao-Tse-Tung
● Pakistan, The Gathering Storm : Behazir Bhutto
● Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
● Pather Panchali : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya
● Peace has no Alternative : Mikhail Gorbachev
● Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
● Pilgrim’s Progress : John Bunyan
● Prathma Pratishruti : Ashapoorna Devi
● Price and Prejudice : Jane Austin
● Prince : Machiaveli
● Peter Pan : J.M. Barrie
● Principia : Isaac Newton
● Raghuvansha : Kalidasa
● Rajtaringini : Kalhan
● Ram Charit Manas : Tulsidas
● Ramayana : Valmiki
● Rangbhoomi : Premchand
● Ratnavali : Harshavardhan
● Robaiyat : Omar Khayyam
● Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
● Rugby Chapel : Mathew Arnold
● Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
● Satyarth Prakash : Swami Dayanand
● Shakuntalam : Kalidas
● Shahnama : Firdausi
● Social Contract : Rousseau :
● Sursagar : Surdas
● Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
● Testament of Beauty : Robert Bridges
● The Blind Assassin : Margaret Atwood
● The Emperor’s New Suit : Hans Chrishtian Anderson
● Three Musketeers : Alexander Dumas
● The Otherness of Self : Feroz Varun Gandhi
● The Elephant Paradigm : Gurcharan Das
● The Affluent Society : J.K. Galbraith
● The God of Small Things : Arundhati Roy :
● The Inheritance of Loss : Anita Desai
● The Legacy of Nehru : K. Natwar Singh
● Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
● Treasure Island : R.L. Stevenson
● Trail of Jesus : John Masefield
● Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Mrs. Haraiet Stowe
● Unhappy India : Lajpat Rai
● Utopia : Tomas Moor
● Unto The Last : John Ruskin
● Untold Story : B.M. Kaul
● Urvashi : Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
● Uttara Ram Charita : Bhav Bhuti
● Universe Around Us : James Jeans
● Vanity Fair : Thackeray
● Victim, The : Saul Bellow
● Village, The : Mulk Raj Anand
● Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas
● Voskresenia : Leo Tolstoy
● War and Peace : Tolstoy
● Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
● We Indians : Khushwant Singh
● Waiting for God : Thomas Becket
● Wings of Fire : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
● Yama : Mahadevi Verma
● Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta
● Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody
● Zhivago, Dr. : Boris Pasternak

Competitive Exams: Idioms And Phrases

Competitive Exams: Idioms And Phrases
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·         Above all (chiefly, mainly)

·         On Account of (due to, for the reason)

·         On no account (not for any reason)

·         Above board (honest, beyond reproach)

·         To give a good account of oneself (to act with credit to oneself)

·         A fidus Achates (a faithful friend)

·         The heel of Achilles (a week point)

·         An Adonis (a very handsome man)

·         To build castles in the air (To day dream)

·         To assume airs (to affect superiority)

·         To air one's opinions (to give vent to one's feeling in public)

·         To stand aloof (To keep to oneself and not mix with others)

·         To lead to the altar (to marry)

·         An Amazon (a warlike masculine woman)

·         An Ananias (a liar)

·         An Apollo (a man with perfect physique)

·         The apple of discord (cause of quarrel)

·         To upset the apple cart (to disturb the peace)

·         Apple pie order (in perfect order)

·         Arcadian life (a blissful, happy, rural and simple life)

·         To keep a person at an arm's length (to avoid and keep distance from a person)

·         To take up arms (to fight, to go to war)

·         To have an axe to grind (to have some selfish objective in view)

·         Not to know a B from a bull's foot (to be ignorant of even the simplest things)

·         A Babel (a confused noise)

·         To break the back of any thing (to perform the most difficult part of it)

·         To get one's back up (to rouse one's anger)

·         To backbite a person (to slander or speak ill of someone)

·         He has no backbone (he has no will of his own)

·         To cause bad blood (to cause enmity)

·         Bag and baggage (with all one's belongings)

·         To keep the ball rolling (to keep things going)

·         Baptism of fire (a soldier's first experience of actual war)

·         To call to the bar (to admit as a barrister)

·         Barmecide's feast (imaginary benefits)

·         To beat about the bush (to approach a matter in an indirect and round about manner)

·         To be dead beat (worn out by fatigue)

·         Bed and board (lodging and food)

·         As you make your bed, so must lie on it (you will have to bear the consequences of your crimes or your own mistakes or misdeeds)

·         To take to one's bed (to have to be confined to bed as a result of sickness)

·         Bee-line (the shortest distance between two places)

·         To go a begging (to be sold very cheaply because no one cares to buy)

·         Behind one's back (without one's Knowledge)

·         Behind the scenes (in private, out of sight)

·         To bell the cat (to undertake a dangerous task and the enemy is common)

·         To hit below the belt (to act unfairly in a contest)

·         His better half (a man's wife)

·         A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (certainty is better then possibility)

·         An old bird is not to be caught with chaff (experienced people are not easily fooled or deceived)

·         To take the bit between one's teeth (to get out of control)

·         To bite the dust (to be defeated in battle)

·         The biter bit (to cheat the cheater)

·         His bark was worse than his bite (he usually makes a lot of vain verbal threats)

·         A wet Blanket (a person who is a discourage)

·         In cold Blood (deliberately)

·         Blood is thicker than water (One usually takes the side of ones relation against another who is not one's own blood)

·         To blow hot and cold (to do one think at one time and the opposite soon after)

·         A blue stocking (a learned woman)

·         Once in a blue moon (a very rare occurrence)

·         Blue ribbon (the highest prize in any sport competition)

·         At first Blush (at first sight)

·         In the same boat (in the same misfortune or circumstances)

·         A bolt from the blue (a sudden)

·         A bone of contention (a cause of dispute)

·         A Book-worm (a person always poring over books)

·         By leaps and bounds (with remarkable speed)

·         Breach of promise (failure to keep a promise to marry one of whom you are betrothed)

·         One's bread and butter (one's means of livelihood)

·         His bread is well butter (he is in fortunate circumstance)

·         The bread winner (one who provides the means of livelihood for himself and his family)

·         To Break in (to tame, to control in a gentle manner)

·         To break the news (to reveal something pleasant in a gentle manner)

·         To break the ice (to be the first to begin)

·         To breadth one's last (to die)

·         To breadth freely again (to be no longer in a fear or anxiety)

·         To make bricks without straw (to attempt to do something without proper materials or due preparations)

·         Never cross the Bridge until you come to it (don't anticipate difficulties)

·         It is an broad as it is long (it is the same whichever way you view it)

·         To brow beat (to bully)

·         To kick the bucket (to die)

·         John bull (an Englishman)

·         To burry the hatchet (to forget past quarrels and be friends again)

·         Good wine needs no bush (there is no need to advertise something good)

·         To raise cain (to rebuke severely)

·         To take the cake (to take the first prize)

·         To burn the candle at both ends (to expend energy in two directions at the same time)

·         If the cap fits, wear it (if you think the remarks refer to you)

·         Capitan punishment (the death sentence or penalty)

·         To put the cart before the horse (to do first what ought to be done afterwards)

·         To let the cat out of the bag (to expose the trick)

·         To fight like cats and dog (to be always quarrelling and fighting)

·         Care killed the cat (don't fret and worry yourself to death)

·         See which way the cat jumps (sit on fence)

·         To rain cats and dogs (to rain incessantly)

·         He is a cat's paw (one used as a to something dangerous)

·         To Catch one's eye (to attract attention)

·         To take the chair (to preside a meeting)

·         She is no chicken (she is older than she says)

·         Chicken hearted (weak, timid)

·         Don't count your chickens before they are hatched (don't calculate your gains before they are realized)

·         A chip of the old block (a son resembling his father in face disposition, habits etc.)

·         Hobson's choice (no alterative)

·         To pick and choose (to make a careful selection)

·         Every cloud has a silver lining (adverse conditions do not last for ever)

·         To square the circle (to attempt something impossible)

·         Close fisted (mean)

·         To have one's head in the cloud (to live in dreamland)

·         To carry coals to New castle (to do any thing superfluous)

·         Cut your cloth according to your cloth (live within your income)

·         A cock and bull story (a foolishly incredible story)

·         To be cock sure (to be absolutely certain)

·         To throw cold water upon anything (to discourage effort)

·         Off color (not in the usual form)

·         To came off with flying color (to succeed brilliantly)

·         To commit to memory (to learn by heart)

·         Too many cooks spoil the broth (when there are more worpkers than necessary)

·         To send to Coventry (to boycott)

·         An admirable Crichton (a very talented person)

·         Crocodile tears (hypocritical tears)

·         By hook or by crook (by fair or foul means)

·         As the crow flies (in a direct line)

·         To take up the cudgels (to champion or flight for someone)

·         To curry favour (to seek favour by flattery)

·         Cut and dried (ready made)

·         To cut a dash (to make an impression)

·         To be at daggers drawn (to be deadly enemies)

·         A dare-devil (a fearless, reckless man)

·         Up to date (recent, modern)

·         Out of date (obsolete)

·         Evil days (a period of misfortune)

·         Halcyon days (A time when there is peace and happiness in the land)

·         To step into dead man's shoes (to come into an inheritance)

·         To give the devil his due (give a person credit for his good qualities however worthless he may be)

·         Go to the devil (be off)

·         Devil's playthings (playing cards)

·         Devil's bones (dice)

·         To be between the devil and the deep sea (to be faced with two dangerous situations, each of which is to be dreaded as much as the other)

·         To be on the horns of dilemma (to in such a position that it is difficult to decide what to do)

·         Give a dog a bad name and hang him (once a person loses his reputation)

·         To be a dog in the manger (to prevent others from using what one can't use oneself)

·         Every dog has his day (sooner or later, every one has his share of good fortune)

·         To be in the doldrums (to be in low spirits, to be out of spirits)

·         Ups and downs (varying fortunes; changes and chances of life)

·         To throw dust in one's eyes (to try to deceive some one)

·         Dutch courage (bravery induced by alcoholic liquors)

·         Eagle eye (quick to discover; very discerning)

·         A bad egg (a worthless person)

·         Don't put your eggs in one basket (Don't stake all your money on a single industry)

·         A white elephant (a useless possession which is extremely expensive to keep)

·         At the eleventh hour (at the last moment)

·         To make both ends meet (to keep expenses within one's income)

·         An eye for an eye (tit for tat to return evil for evil; retaliate)

·         Bad faith (dishonest intentions)

·         A breach of faith (to act contrary to what one had professed)

·         To fall out (to quarrel)

·         To fall through (fail)

·         Birds of a feather flock together (people of similar tastes and dis-positions crave each other's company)

·         To set the Thames on fire (to do something sensational or remarkable)

·         A burnt child dreads the fire (one who has had a previous unpleasant experience is always scared of situations where such experience are likely to be repeated)

·         A fish out of water (anyone in an awkward)

·         Other fish to fry (more important business to attend to)

·         By fits and starts (spasmodically)

·         Foul play (cheating)

·         To jump from a frying pan into fire (to come out of one trouble and get into a worse)

·         To gain ground (to make progress in any undertaking)

·         To play to the gallery (to endeavour to gain cheap popularity)

·         To give up the ghost (to die)

·         Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones (people who do not live blameless lives should not find fault with others)

·         All that glitters is not gold (things are not always as attractive as they appears)

·         A good for nothing (a worth less person)

·         A good Samaritan (a friend in need)

·         A wild goose chase (a vain attempt)

·         To kill the goose that laid the golden egg (to lose a valuable source of income though greed)

·         To cut a Gordian knot (to solve a difficult problem by adopting bold and drastic measures)

·         From hand to hand (from one person to another)

·         Hard and fast rules (strict rules)

·         Hard to hearing (almost deaf)

·         Back in harness (to resume work after a holiday)

·         To die in harness (to continue at one's occupation until death)

·         More haste less speed (work done hurriedly is apt to be badly done)

·         Make hay while the sun shines (take advantage of all opportunities)

·         To be in hot water (to be in trouble or difficulty)

·         To eat an humble pie (to submit oneself to humiliation and insult)

·         To kiss the book (to take an oath in a produce or commodities)

·         To kiss the dust (to be defeated in battle)

·         A laconic speech (a concise)

·         To look to one's laurels (to take care not to lose one's place)

·         To win laurels (to gain distinction or glory in s contest)

·         To smell of the lamp (to show signs of strenuous preparation for an examination or a speech etc)

·         Look before you leap (think before action)

·         To stand on one's own legs (to depend entirely on one's own resources)

·         To give the lie to (to prove to be false)

·         To bring to light (to reveal)

·         A Lilliputian (a pygmy)

·         The lion's share (the largest part)

·         Lock, stock and barrel (the whole of everything)

·         A Martinet (a very strict disciplinarian)

·         A miss is as good as a mile (comes nowhere near it)

·         To move heaven and earth (to exert all efforts)

·         To hit the nail on the head (to mention the true facts of a case)

·         A stitch in time saves nine (If we give our attention to the little details of life)

·         In a nutshell (Summed up in a few words)

·         Out of temper (angry)

·         To pick to pieces (to analyses critically)

·         The proof of the pudding is in eating (people are judged by their actions)

·         To put down a person (to degrade or humiliate a person)

·         To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (to attempt to accomplish great things with inferior materials)

·         Pyrrhic victory (a victory that is as costly as defeat)

·         To be like a drowned rat (to be soaking wet)

·         Red flag (the symbol of revolution)

·         To be caught red-handed (to be caught in the very act of committing a crime)

·         Red letter-day (a memorable day)

·         Red tape (a team used to describe the delay in attending to matters in government department because the official routine and formality)

·         Rome was not built in a day (it takes time to accomplish anything really worthwhile)

·         To be between Scylla and Charybdis (to be faced with two dangerous alternatives)

·         To see daylight (to begin to understand)

·         A close shave (a narrow escape)

·         A skeleton in the cupboard/the family skeleton (a dreadful domestic secret)

·         By the skin of the teeth (very narrowly)

·         A snake in the grass (an enemy who strikes under cover)

·         A Spartan life (a life of extreme self discipline)

·         To call a spade a spade (to be brutally frank)

·         A rolling stone gathers no moss (unstable people never achieve anything worthwhile)

·         One swallow does not make a summer (it is unreliable to base one's conclusions on only a single test or incident)

·         Empty vessels make the most noise (those who know or have little knowledge often shout the loudest)

·         If wishes were horses, beggars might ride (if all people's wishes came true every body would be rich)

·         A nine days'wonder (an event which relates a sensation for a time but is soon forgotten)

·         Yellow press (newspapers which publish sensational and unscrupulous stories about crime, sex etc.)

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