Idioms and Phrases

Cold Shoulder

Ignore

Block head

Foolish

By the short hairs

অস্বস্তিতে বা লজ্জায় পড়া

A back seat

A low position in order of priority

Achilles’ heel

A weak point

Call to mind

Remember

Bolt from the blue

Complete surprise

After one’s own heart

To be one’s own liking

All in

Tired

Bull market

Rising

In cold blood

In cool brain and calculated thought

A round dozen

A full dozen

Give someone cold shoulder

Ignore someone

A dime a dozen

Something common

Cock and bull story

False story

At wits’ end

Bewildered

A man of letters

A learned man

Footlose and fancy free

Free to enjoy oneself

Head in the clouds

A daydreamer

To get along with

To adjust

Dog days

Hot weather

Give somebody a piece pf your mind

Tell someone you are very angry with them

Raise eyebrows

Show surprise or disapproval

Soft soap

Flatter fot self motives

Die in harness

Go on working till death

Get it off your chest

Talk about it

Read between the lines

Understand what is implied not what is explicitly said

Keep the flag flying

Keep surviving

In the pink

In good health and ready to go

Knock wood

ভাগ্য সুপ্রসন্ন হলে

Put up with

To tolerate

Once in a blue moon

Very rarely

Maiden speech

First speech

Pass away

Die

Out and out

Thoroughly

Let things slide

Ignore

Keeping a low profile

Avoiding attention

Peer to peer

Mutual

White elephant

Costly troublesome thing

Without issue

Childless

Square meal

Nutritious meal

To Genuflect

To bend the knee

Doctor an animal

To sterilize it

Take the bull by the horns

To challenge the enemy with courage

To end in smoke

To come to nothing

To keep one’s head

To keep calm

To put the cart before the horse

To reverse the natural order of things

To get along with

To adjust

Swan song

Last work

Turned over a new leaf

Opened a new chapter

Show good manners

Behave gently

To meet trouble half way

To be puzzled

A slow coach

A very lazy person

Through and through

পুরোপুরি ভাবে

Tall talk

Exaggerated statement

Under the weather

Unwell

To keep one’s temper

To be in the good mood

To call it a day

To stop working on something

To scowl

To look at someone in an angry way

Sitting on pins and needles

Was neevous

With open arms

Warm person