hard and fast

There is no hard and fast rule illustrating that you cannot wear colorful socks to the examination hall, therefore you need not worry about it.

Bear the burnt

I told you not to tease the fat man as he is of an impatient disposition, now it serves you right to bear the burn of his verbatim.

Weather the storm

It was the sense of common purpose that kept Pakistan integrated and allowed her to weather the storm of partition.

meet halfway

It is impossible to live together unless you make sincere attempt to meet me halfway.

where the shoe pinches

Pakistan is a nation of great potentials however it is the rise ethnocentrism where the shoe pinches and hinders the achievement of common purpose.

turncoat

whatever the consequences be, I shall always be on your side for I am not a turncoat like other politicians who switch parties for material gains.