Salam to all friends , can any one tell me these idioms Waiting for your reply.
their meaning in urdu or english and use in sentences:
- To give a good dressing down
- old bird
- a chip on the shoulder
- to sound the alarm
- to beat the drum
- penny wise, pound foolish
- wast not, want not
- to take for a ride
- tp get into one's stride
- a raw deal
- a tall order
- to get in the neck
- to rip up old scores
- pretensions
- off the mark
- pierce through
- streamline
- a straight fight
- to fight shy of
- to drop a brick
- to pull one's socks up
- to mind one's own business
- to clinch the matter
- to swallow an insult
- time and again
- on the threshold
- catch the fancy of
- in a nutshell
- to let sleeping dogs lie
- a sad dog
- a rope of sand
- yeoman's service
- a crown of wild olive
- ab initio
- Mala fide
- Neck or nothing
- no laughing matter
- more or less
- an open mind
- a matter of opinion
- rattle through
- patch up
- part company with
- a collect call
- in common with
- in toto
- ex-parte
- to run through
- The olive branch
- keep one's weather eye open
- the weather vane
- to be in a rut
- the sixth sense
- to swim against the current
- a thorn in the flesh
- of no avail
- to fall flat
- against one's grain
- a blind alley
- to make away with
- viva voce
- the loaes and fishes of office
- a laconic speech
i think no any senior member is ready to answer my question.
waiting