IDIOMS – 2
Accidentally on purpose: If
you do something intentionally, but pretend it was an accident, you do it accidentally on purpose
Add fuel to the flames: If
you add fuel to the flames, you door
say something that makes a difficult situation worse.
Answer nature’s call: Answering nature’s call
means a person’s visit to the rest room.
Backseat driver: A passenger in a car who gives
unwanted advice to the driver is called a backseat
driver.
Badger someone: If you badger someone into doing something, means your persistent nagging
or pestering to get the thing done.
Balancing act: Trying to satisfy two or more
people or groups having different needs and keeping everybody happy is performing
a balancing act.
Bare your heart/soul: Baring your heart/soul is
revealing your innermost feelings and thoughts.
Barking up the wrong tree: A person barking up the wrong tree is doing a wrong thing on the belief that
their idea or belief is mistaken or taken as incorrect.
Beating a (hasty) retreat: A
person running away from a dangerous
or difficult situation is beating a (hasty) retreat.
Binge drinking: Refers to heavy drinking of
alcohol by a group of persons in a short space of time.
Bite the hand that feeds you: If you bite the hand that feeds you, then you are doing some harm or becoming unfriendly to someone who is kind to you.
Blot one’s copy book: Refers to someone doing
something to spoil their reputation or good record.
On the bottle: A person hitting the alcohol
to overcome desperation and drinks heavily is aid to be on the bottle.
Break every rule in the book: Any person behaving in an unacceptable way
to the procedures is said to be breaking
every rule in the book.
Breath down your neck: Someone watching you too closely
and make you feel uncomfortable is said to be breathing down your neck.
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