| Idioms and Phrases | Meaning |
| The Best of Both Worlds | To Enjoy Two Different Opportunities at the same time |
| When Pigs Fly | Something that will never happen |
| To Cost An Arms and A Legs | Very Expensive |
| A piece of cake | Very Easy |
| To feel under the weather | To be ill or not feeling well |
| To cut corners | To take a shortcut or doing something in the easiest, cheapest or quickest way possible, perhaps unwisely |
| To add Insult to Injury | To make a situation worse |
| Break a Leg | Good Luck |
| Bite The Bullet | Decide to do something unpleasant that you have avoiding doing |
| Getting a Test of your own Medicine | Being treated the same unpleasant way you have treated others |
| To show cold shower | To ignore someone |
| The Last Straw | The final source of irritation for someone to finally lose patience |
| The Elephant in the room | A matter or problem that is obvious of great importance but that is not discussed openly |
| Stealing Someone’s Thunder | Taking credit for someone else achievements |
| Hard to Swallow | Difficult to Believe |
| Make a Clean Breast of | Confess or Acknowledge Something |
| Have a card up one’s sleeve | Have a secret plan |
| Cat and Dog Life | Constantly Quarreling |
| Be in a Tight Corner | To be in a very difficult situation |
| At Arm’s Length | To keep at a distance/ keep away |
| Keep One’s Fingers Crossed | To be very hopeful |
| The gift of the Gab | Art of speaking |
| Tooth and Nail | Very Aggressive or violent |
| Die in Harness | To die while working |
| Heat it on the grapevine | To hear rumors |
| To cook the books | To modify financial statements |
| Yellow Press | Newspapers which publish sensational and unscrupulous stories |
| A cash cow | A product or service that mala a lot of money for a company |
| To move heaven and earth | To dry utmost |
| Make hay while the sun shines | Take advantage of all opportunities. |
| A burnt child dreads the fire | A bad experience teaches man not to repeat the same action. |
| To throw dust in ones eyes | To try to deceive someone or misleading someone |
| Go to the devil | To be in an extremely and increasingly bad or ruinous condition. |
| To step in to dead man’s shoes | To take over the position or role of someone who has died |
| Halcyon Days | Peaceful days or prosperous happy days |
| Cut and dried | Ready-made |
| Crocodile tears | Pretend |
| To throw cold water | To discourage someone |
| Every cloud has a silver lining | There is something good in everything that’s bad. |
| To Square the circle | To attempt something impossible |
| No chicken | Older than one says |
| Care killed the cat | Too much worry leads to burden |
| To burn the candles at both ends | To exhaust one’s energies or resources to waste |
| To breathe One’s Last | To die |
| One’s Bread and Butter | One’s means of livelihood |
| A bolt from the blue | Something completely unexpected that surprises you |
| A blue stocking | A learned/ educated or intellectual women |
| In cold Blood | Violent, cruel, deliberately or without emotions |
| A set blanket | A person who discourages enjoyment or enthusiasm |
| To bite the dust | To be defeated in battle |
| To hit below the belt | To act unfairly in a contest |
| Bee-line | The shortest distance between two places or short cut. |
| To keep the ball rolling | To keep things going |
| Bad Blood | Bitter Relationships |
| To take up arms | To fight or go to the war |
| Arcadian Life | A Blissful, happy, rural and simple life |
| Apple Pie order | In perfect order |
| To upset the apple cart | To disturb the peace |
| An Apollo | A man with perfect Physique. |
| An Ananias | A liar |
