Idioms Dictionary With Meaning and Sentences Part 9

List-9

1. To curry favour

Meaning: – to seek favour by flattery

Use:- He does not work but tries to curry the favour of his officer.

2. Cut and dry

Meaning: –ready-made

Use:-He is in search of a cut and dry formula for success.

3. To cut a dash

Meaning: –to make an impression

Use:-He cut a dash by his excellent performance.

4. A cut-throat

Meaning: –a murderer

Use:-The police has caught the cut-throat who committed two murders.

5. To be at daggers drawn

Meaning: –to be deadly enemies

Use:-Santa Singh and Banta Singh are at daggers drawn over a piece of land.

6. A dare-devil

Meaning: –a fearless, reckless man

Use:-He fought like a dare-devil in the battle.

7. He has seen better days

Meaning: –He was once prosperous

Use:-He is bankrupt, but he has seen better days.

8. Evil days

Meaning: –a period of misfortune

Use:-I have fallen on evil days. You should face these evil days bravely.

9. To give the devil his due

Meaning: –give a person credit for his good qualities however worthless he may be

Use:-He is mischievous, but to give the devil his due he is intelligent also.

10. Go to the devil

Meaning: –Be oft

Use:-Go to the devil, and don’t disturb me.

11. To be a dog in the manger

Meaning: –to prevent others from using what one cannot use one; to be selfish

Use:-He neither plays himself nor lets others play. He is a dog in the manger

12. Down and out

Meaning: –penniless, ruined

Use:-After a loss in business, he is down and out.

13. Eagle-eye

Meaning: –quick to discover, very discerning

Use:-nothing can escape Mohan’s eagle-eye

14. To eat one’s words

Meaning: –to apologies; to take back what one has said)

Use:-He spoke without thinking and had to eat his words later.

15. To turn turtle

Meaning: –to overturn

Use:-In the accident, the car turned turtle.

16. A white elephant

Meaning: –a useless possession which is extremely expensive to keep

Use:-His imported car is a white elephant for him.

17. At the eleventh hour

Meaning: –at the last moment

Use:- I reached the railway station at the eleventh hour and caught the train.

18. At his wit’s end

Meaning: –utterly confounded

Use:-He was at his wit’s end when he got the news of his failure.

19. At the end of his tether

Meaning: –unable to proceed any further

Use:-after working for ten hours, I was at the end of my tether

20. Odds and ends

Meaning: –Remnants

Use:-He gathered his odds and ends and went away.

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