[One]
Fit As A Fiddle — to be very healthy and strong.
Usage — My grandmother’s 89, but she’s as fit as a fiddle.
[Two]
Connect The Dots —to understand something by piecing together hints or other bits of information.
Usage — Once I started to connect the dots, I realized that, if he hadn’t called me by now, I probably wasn’t getting the job.
[Three]
Bread and butter — providing a livelihood or basic source of income.
Usage — You have to earn your own bread and butter and be independent.
[Four]
Apple of my eye — regard someone precious
Usage —He has been there through my thick and thin, hence he’s the apple of my eye.
[Five]
Hour of need — at a time when someone really needs help.
Usage — She helped me in my hour of need, and for that, I am forever grateful.
[Six]
Hold your horses— wait a moment or be patient because you are moving too quickly or thoughtlessly
Usage — Whoa, hold your horses, kids. We’re going to sing before we start eating cake.
[Seven]
Grain of salt — to understand that something is not completely true or right
Usage — I have read the article, but I take it with a grain of salt.
[Eight]
One Two Many— one drink of liquor too many, implying drunkenness.
Usage — Don’t drive if you’ve had one too many.
[Nine]
On Fire — performing very enthusiastically, adeptly, or successfully.
Usage — The team has been on fire lately winning 11 of its last 12 games.
[Ten]
Eat your words — to admit that something you said before was wrong
Usage — Sam said it would never sell, but when he sees these sales figures he’ll have to eat his words.
[Eleven]
No hard feelings — making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
Usage — So I hope you’ll move on now, make a fresh start, no hard feelings.
[Twelve]
Old school — a group of people favouring traditional ideas or conservative practices
Usage — I belong to the genre of young modern and independent lady yet when it comes to love, I am thrilled with the old-school gestures.
[Thirteen]
Moral compass — used in reference to a person’s ability to judge what is right and wrong to act accordingly
Usage — He is by no means the only senior politician who has mislaid his moral compass.
[Sixteen]
Slip of tongue— uttered by mistake or unintentionally revealed
Usage — At one stage he referred to Anna as John’s fiancée, but later said that was a slip of the tongue.
[Seventeen]
Throw Some Light— help to elaborate
Usage — The documents we’ve uncovered is helping us throw some light upon how the late author’s final book was meant to end.
[Eighteen]
Bird’s Eye View— a general view from above.
Usage — I love hikes and treks is all because of the bird’s eye view on reaching the top of the mountain.
[Nineteen]
Think Outside The Box — think in a creative way.
Usage — When it comes to generating a passive income, I think out of the box to solve a problem statement.
[Twenty]
Larger Than Life — live life queen size
Usage — When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
[Twenty one]
Burst Someone’s Bubble — shatter someone’s illusions about something or destroy their sense of well-being.
Usage — The economic strength of India was booming and then the bubble burst with the crash of the stock market in the last decade.
[Twenty two]
Steal My Thunder — use someone else’s ideas to their own advantage
Usage — She did not announce the news at the party because her friend was getting married and she did not want to steal her thunder.
[Twenty three]
Cut Loose — to behave in an uncontrolled, wild way
Usage — Don’t be too hard on them. They’re just kids and they need to cut loose sometimes.
[Twenty four]
Make The Ends Meet — earn decent enough to make a living
Usage — I had to look for a passive income along with my day job in order to make the ends meet and pay my bills.
[Twenty five]
On A Silver Platter — delivered or given to one, without having put forth much or any effort
Usage — Of course, the CEO’s daughter got the job without having to interview – she gets everything on a silver platter.
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