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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:
  1. To give a good dressing down
  2. old bird
  3. a chip on the shoulder
  4. to sound the alarm
  5. to beat the drum
  6. penny wise, pound foolish
  7. wast not, want not
  8. to take for a ride
  9. tp get into one's stride
  10. a raw deal
  11. a tall order
  12. to get in the neck
  13. to rip up old scores
  14. pretensions
  15. off the mark
  16. pierce through
  17. streamline
  18. a straight fight
  19. to fight shy of
  20. to drop a brick
  21. to pull one's socks up
  22. to mind one's own business
  23. to clinch the matter
  24. to swallow an insult
  25. time and again
  26. on the threshold
  27. catch the fancy of
  28. in a nutshell
  29. to let sleeping dogs lie
  30. a sad dog
  31. a rope of sand
  32. yeoman's service
  33. a crown of wild olive
  34. ab initio
  35. Mala fide
  36. Neck or nothing
  37. no laughing matter
  38. more or less
  39. an open mind
  40. a matter of opinion
  41. rattle through
  42. patch up
  43. part company with
  44. a collect call
  45. in common with
  46. in toto
  47. ex-parte
  48. to run through
  49. The olive branch
  50. keep one's weather eye open
  51. the weather vane
  52. to be in a rut
  53. the sixth sense
  54. to swim against the current
  55. a thorn in the flesh
  56. of no avail
  57. to fall flat
  58. against one's grain
  59. a blind alley
  60. to make away with
  61. viva voce
  62. the loaes and fishes of office
  63. a laconic speech

i think no any senior member is ready to answer my question. waiting

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