MOST IMPORTANT IDIOMS (मुहावरे )

MOST IMPORTANT IDIOMS

मुहावरे 

IDIOMS	Meaning	Examples	Hindi Meaning
At the eleventh hour	At the last moment	He always studies at the eleventh hour	आखिरी वक्त पर काम करना
At sixes and sevens	In a disordered manner	Raju always keeps his books at sixes and seven	अस्त व्यस्त
An apple of discord	A cause of quarrel	Kashmir has always been an apple of discord between India & Pakistan	मुसीबत कि जड़
An acid test	A critical test	This match is an acid test for Indian cricket team	अग्नि परीक्षा
Add fuel to the fire	To worsen the situation	Shouting at a crying child just adds fuel to the fire	आग में घी डालना situation को और ख़राब कर देना
At a snail’s pace	Very slowly	The construction of this bridge is going on at snail’s pace	कछुए कि चाल से काम करना
To beat about the bush	Talk out of the topic Or talk irrelevantly	A thief always tries to talk about the bushes in front of police	इधर उधर कि बाते करना
To build castles in the air	Make imaginary schemes	Without practice, you can build only castles in the air about speaking English	हवा में महल बनाना
By leaps and bounds	Rapidly	Baba Ramdev’s patanjali business is growing by leaps and bounds	दिन दुगनी रात चोगुनी
A burning question	An important serious topic	Reservation is a burning question in Indian politics	ज्वलंत प्रश्न
A big gun	An important person	She is a big gun in local politics	नामी गिरामी
To blow one’s own trumpet	To praise one’ls own achievement	He is in the habit of blowing one’s own trumpet	अपने मूँ मियां मिठू
A bosom friend	A very close friend	Ram and shyam are bosom friends	जिगरी दोस्त
A close shave	Narrow escape	Umpire didn’t give him out. It was a close shave	बाल बाल बचना
Turn a deaf ear	Ignore what one says	Duryodhan turned a deaf ear to all the advices of Krishna in Mahabharata	अनसुना कर देना
By hook or crook	By fair or foul means	I will become a rich person by hook or crook	साम दाम दंड भेद हर प्रकार से
Grain ground	Become popular	20-20 cricket is gaining much ground in international cricket
In the long run	Eventually	Keep working hard you will succeed in the long run
Chew the cud	Ponder over something	He sat chewing the cud all morning
Hard and fast rules	Strict rules	There is no hard and fast rules in this company
Between the devil and deep blue sea	Between two dangers	Supporting terrorists put him between the devil and the deep blue sea	इधर कुआं उधर खायी
Burn the midnight oil	Work or study hard	For clearing an IAS Exam , one needs to burn the midnight oil
Smell a rat	Suspect something foul	Poilicemen are very good at smelling a rat
Nip in the bud	Destroy in the early stage	The whole idea was nipped in the bud
Bury the hatchet	End the quarrel and make peace	India & Pak have tried all their best to bury the hatchet in last few years
Leave one in the lurch	Leave one in a helpless condition	A true friend is not one who leave his friend in the lurch
To make both ends meet	To live with in one’s income	It’s very difficult to meet both ends meet in one salary these days
Kill two birds with one stone	To achieve two results with one effort	Alliance of RJD with JDU proved killing two birds with one stone for LALU PRASAD	एक तीर से दो निशाने लगाना
A hard nut to crack	A difficult problem	Most of the IIT questions are hard nut to crack for an average student
To get rid of	To dispose of   OR  to eliminate something permanently	It’s very difficult to get rid of corruption problem in present time	छुटकारा पाना मुसीबत से
Rain cats and dogs	Rain heavily	It has been raining cats and dogs for 2 days	मूसलाधार बारिश होना
The pros and cons	Advantage as well as disadvantages	We should consider all pros and cons before taking any major decision