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Dear Aspirants,
I found following idioms in the past papers of CSS and PCS/PMS. May you please use them sentences to make their meaning clear and separately mention their meanings, as well, in the common interest of all the aspirants because i could not find them in any dictionary or internet.


Give me five
Got up to kill
Hard shoulder
Hilarious detract from,
House are built to live in and not to look on
If winter comes, can spring be far behind
Laconic speech
Life without a philosophy is like a ship without rudder.
Loaves and Fishes
Look your age
Man does not live by bread alone
Meaningful dialogue.
Monkey with,
Off the wall
Oily tongue
On right earnest,
On the sky
Out to lunch
Over head and ears
Pecuniary aid
Petticoat Government,
Pith and marrow
Play truant
Pocket an insult.
Pocket the affront
Point blank
Push to the walls
Put out of countenance
Ruling passion
Set one’s cap Down at heel,
Strike one’s colours
Succinctly
Teaming meanings
The child is father of the man.
The onlooker sees most of the game
To err is human, to refrain from laughing, humane.
We have no time to stand and stare?
What is this life, if full of care
Yawn is a Silent Shout.
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