Important Idioms & Phrasal Verbs English Inter Part-II

 Important Idioms & Phrasal Verbs English Inter Part-II

Above board

By leaps and bounds 

Every inch 

Leave no stone unturned

Through and through

Add fuel to fire

Call a spade a spade    

Eye wash

Lick the dust 

Turn a deaf ear to      

All and sundry

Capital punishment 

Eat humble pie  

Lion’s share

To turn the table       

All in all

Call names

To fall a prey to

Live from hand to mouth 

Under a cloud 

                     

Apple of discord

Call in question

Fair and square

Look forward to

Up to the mark

                     

An axe to grind

To call to account

Find fault with

Look down upon

Uphill task 

                      

Bad blood 

Carry the day 

Finger in the pie                                

Maiden speech

A white elephant  

                      

Bag and baggage

Carry weight

Flesh and blood

Make both ends meet 

A white lie

                        

Beat about the bush

Child’s play 

For good

Once in  a blue moon

A wild goose chase 

A bird’s eye view

A close-fisted man         

Face the music 

Part and parcel

Abide by

                    

Black sheep

A cock and bull story

To fall flat  

Red letter day 

Break down

                       

Blue blood 

In cold blood

Few and far between

Red tape  

Break into

A bolt from the blue

A cold comfort

In full swing

Royal road  

Break out

A bone of contention

Come to blows 

Get rid of

Run short of

Bring up

Bread and butter 

Come to grief

Go in smoke

Safe and sound

Bear out  

Break the news

Cut a sorry figure      

Hair-breadth escape

At sixes and sevens

Come of

 

Break the ice  

Come to terms

Hard pill to swallow

Spick and span

Carry out     

 

Bring to book 

Be at daggers drawn

Heart and soul

A square deal 

Carry on    

 

Bring to light

A dark horse  

After one’s own heart

A  square meal

Deal in

Burn midnight oil

Die in harness

In black and white 

At a stone’s throw                   

Do away with

A burning question

A dog in the manger

Keep at arm’s length

Split hairs

Give up   

                     

To bury the hatchet  

A drawn match

Kith and kin

Sum and substance

Go through 

                       

By and large

Down and out

Kick the bucket 

Take to task

Give in

By fits and starts         

At the eleventh hour

Be at large

Take into account

Look after

By hook or by crook

Eat one’s words  

Leave in the lurch         

Through thick and thin               

Put off

Abide by

Belong to

Break off

Break down

Bring up

Bear out

Come of

Cut out

Cut down

Carry out

Deal in

Do away with

Go through

Give in

Look after

Make out

Put off

Put by

Run at

Run down

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