ES Online : News and Current Affairs Grow your knowledge with us Idioms and Phrases beginning with B & C
1. Back to square one – To be back at the starting point of something.
2. Back on one’s feet – To be healthy again after sickness.
3. By hook or by crook – Any cost or by fair or unfair mean.
4. Blow one’s trump – Self praise.
5. Beat the air – Do useless effort.
6. Bed of thorns – Full of difficulties.
7. Beat about the bush – To discuss a topic without being specific about anything.
8. Bag and baggage – With all one’s belongings.
9. Blue eyed boy – A man who is liked bamd admired by somebody in authority.
10. Bread and Butter – Someone’s livelihood.
11. Bear the brunt of – Take the main force, often of a criticism or unpleasant event.
12. Burn the candle at both the ends – Exhaust someone’s energies or resources by leading a hectic life.
13. Bury the hatchet – Make peace; end a quarrel.
14. Bury head in the sand – Refuse to think about an unpleasant situation, hopping that it will improve so that you will not have to deal with it.
15. Blue blood – Descent from nobility, aristocrat.
16. By dint of – As result of something.
17. Break of leg – Good luck, best wishes.
18. Born with a silver spoon in mouth – To be born to parents who are rich and have a good social rank.
19. Beyond the pale – An unacceptable way to express something.
20. Call a spade a spade – Speak frankly and directly.
21. Come through with flying colours – Be highly successful.
22. Cock and bull story – Made up story taht one should not believe.
23. Cross ones t’s and dot – Be precise, careful and one’s i’s exact.
24. Chew the cud – Ponder over something.
25. Close but no Cigar – Coming close to a successful outcome only to fall short at the end.
26. Cry over spilt milk – One shouldn’t worry over things that have already happened and that cannot be changed.
27. Cry wolf – Someone is calling for help when it’s not really needed.
28. Curiosity killed the cat – Mind your own business, as too much poking and prodding could lead to harm.
29. Cut to the Chase – To get to the point, leaving out all of the unnecessary details. Similar to popular saying such as beating around the bush.
30. Call out – To shout.
31. Carry on – To continue.
32. Cast away – To throw aside.
33. Catch up with – To overtake.
আমাদের দ্বারা প্রকাশিত অন্যান্য পোস্টের আপডেট পেতে আপনারা আমাদের ফেসবুক পেজ এবং টেলিগ্রাম চ্যানেল জয়েন করে রাখতে পারেন | এর ফলে আমরা যখনই কোনো নতুন পোস্ট আমাদের ওয়েবসাইটে পাবলিশ করব আপনারা তৎক্ষণাৎ তার নোটিফিকেশন পেয়ে যাবেন |
আমাদের ফেসবুক পেজ 👉 Esho Seekhi FB
আমাদের টেলিগ্রাম চ্যানেল 👉 Esho Seekhi Telegram
Tags: Idioms and Phrases, English for Competitive Exams, General English Idioms and Phrases
