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Old Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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Arrow plz tell meaning of these idioms

salam to all , plz seniors tell the meaning of the following idioms and also use in sentences:

1. To give a good dressing down
2. All over the show
3. To swallow the camel and strain at the gnat
4. To take for a ride
5. To be taken in
6. To get into one's stride
7. Up to the mark
8. The gift of the gab
9. A raw deal
10. A tall order
11. To get in the neck
12. To be in the doldrums
13. To rip up old scores
14. off the mark
14. Pierce through
16. pull together
17. A straight fight
18. To egg on
19. To fall through
20. To fight shy of
21 To come to grief
22. To drop a brick
23. To pull one's socks up
24. to mind one's own business
25. to clinch the matter
26. to read between the lines
27. to swallow an insult
28. time and again
29. catch the fancy of
30.to fish in troubled waters
31. to let sleeping dogs lie
32. a bolt from the blue
33. to grease the palm of
34. to take by storm
35. a sword of damocles
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