So, We are continuing our series of Idioms and Phrases further. In this blog, we will discuss 20 most important Idioms and Phrases starting with alphabet B. Read, Learn and Repeat. Blog by Zuba'r Saifi
1.Back
to square one
Meaning: To be back at the starting point
of something.
Example: I picked up all the leaves and
branches from my lawn yesterday but there was a storm last night and now
I’m back to square one.
2.Back
on one’s feet:
Meaning: to be healthy again after sickness.
Example: I couldn’t do anything for two
weeks while I had the flu but now I’m back on my feet.
3.By
hook or by Crook
Meaning: At any cost /by fair or unfair mean.
Example: I decided that I was going to get
that job by hook or by crook.
4.Blow
one's trump
Meaning- self praise
Example: Anyone will tell you she's one of
the best journalists we've got, although she'd never blow her own horn.
5.Beat
the air
Meaning- do useless effort
Examples: The candidates for office were so
much alike that we thought our vote amounted to beating the air .
6.Bed
of thorns
Meaning: Full of difficulties
Examples: Life of an ill person always
remains a bed of thorns.
7.Beat
about the bush
Meaning
:To discuss a
topic without being specific about anything
Examples: Don't beat around the bush. Just
tell me where my brother is
8.Bag
and baggage
Meaning: (with) all one’s belongings.
Meaning: (with) all one’s belongings.
Example: Tired of their tantrums, the landlady
asked her tenants to vacate the house, bag and baggage,
in a week’s times.
9.Blue
eyed boy
Meaning: a man who is liked and admired by somebody in authority.
Meaning: a man who is liked and admired by somebody in authority.
Example: She gets the charge of all the
assignment except the finance, which is kept for the blue-eyed boy.
10.Bread
and Butter
Meaning: someone’s livelihood.
Meaning: someone’s livelihood.
Example: Teaching classic music to young boys
and girls is her bread and butter.
11.Bear
the brunt of
Meaning: take the main force, often of a criticism or unpleasant event.
Meaning: take the main force, often of a criticism or unpleasant event.
Example: When the teachers and other government
employees went on a strike, they did not realize they’d have to bear
the brunt of public anger when they go back to work.
12.Burn
the candle at both the ends
Meaning: exhaust someone’s energies or resources by leading a hectic life.
Meaning: exhaust someone’s energies or resources by leading a hectic life.
Example: She has been burning the
candle at both ends by doing a full-time job and preparing for
her International English Language Test exams.
13.Bury
the hatchet
Meaning: make peace; end a quarrel, settle one’s differences to become friends again.
Meaning: make peace; end a quarrel, settle one’s differences to become friends again.
Example
1: The
two neighboring countries India
and Pakistan
14.Bury
head in the sand
Meaning: refuse to think about an unpleasant situation, hoping that it will improve so that you will not have to deal with it.
Meaning: refuse to think about an unpleasant situation, hoping that it will improve so that you will not have to deal with it.
Example: Parents and Principal said ragging was
being ignored and accused the girls hostel’s warden of burying her
head in the sand, in Perth city of Australia
15.Blue
blood
Meaning: descent from nobility, aristocrat.
Meaning: descent from nobility, aristocrat.
Example: She often tell her friends that she
has blue blood flowing through her veins.
16.By
dint of
Meaning: as result of something.
Example: Mark got what he wanted by dint of
requesting and threatening
17.Break
a leg
Meaning: good luck, best wishes
Example:
to
wish someone luck especially before a performance
“Break
a leg!” I shouted out to him before he rushed in for his auditions.
18.Born
with a silver spoon in mouth
Meaning: To be born to parents who are rich and
have a good social rank.
Example: He does not need this job as much as I
do, he is born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
19.Beyond
the pale
Meaning
An
unacceptable way to express something.
Something
that is not considered decent.
Example:
They
broke up because her behaviour was simply beyond the pale.
20. Back out
(of something)
Meaning
To
not completely finish something one promised to do.
Example:
My
friend and I were supposed to go on holiday together but she backed
out at the last minute.
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