PURE & BINOMIAL IDIOMS

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Pure & Binomial Idioms

A

• All and sundry:
  Meaning: (every one / ہر ایک)
  Sentence:
  * All and sundry attended the meeting called by chief of the organization.
  * All and sundry were invited to the function.
  
  
• All in All:
  Meaning: (authoritative / مختار کل)
  Sentence:
  * The chairman of a institution is supposed to be all in all.
  * The headmaster is all in all in the school.
  * Our principal is all in all in the college.
  
  
• All At Once (immediately, abruptly):
  * The whole situation happened all at once and no one could help it.
  
  
• Along with (in the company of):
  * She went to the park along with parents and enjoyed a lot.
  
  
• An apple of one's eye (to be favorite):
  * He is an apple of his mother's eye.
  
  
• An axe to grind:
  Meaning: (اپنا الو سیدھا کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * A selfish man always has an axe to grind.
  
  
• Apple of discord (a cause of envy):
  * The inherited property was an apple of discord between the two brothers.
  
  
• At all events (in any case):
  You will have to remove all those false blames at all events.
  
  
• At any rate (in any case):
  * He was so desirous that he wanted to achieve success at any rate.
  
  
• At bottom (really, essentially):
  * She is generous lady at bottom.
  
  
• At length (at last, after along time):
  * At length the bus arrived, forty minutes late.
  
  
• At sixes and sevens:
  Meaning: (بکھری ہوئی)
  Sentence:
  * All the books were at sixes and sevens in the room.
  
  
• At the outset (in the beginning):
  * At the outset of the meeting, the chairman decided the points of discussion.
  
  
• At times (occasionally):
  * He comes to see us at times.

B

• Bag and baggage:
  Meaning: (ساز و سامان)
  Sentence:
  * He left Karachi with bag and baggage.
  
  
• To beat about the bush:
  Meaning: (To go around the topic in order to avoid the point. / اِدھر اُدھر کی باتیں کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * Say exactly what you mean and stop beating about the bush.
  * If you have got bad news, don't beat about the bush come straight to the point.
  * Do not beat about the bush, please come to the point.
  
  
• Bed of roses:
  Meaning: (پھولوں کی سیج)
  Sentence:
  * Life is not a bed of roses, it is a hard job.
  
  
• Bird's eye view:
  Meaning: (اچٹتی نظر ڈالنا)
  Sentence:
  * He had a bird's eye view of England.
  
  
• A Black sheep:
  Meaning: (a bad character in an otherwise good group /نا قابل اعتماد / بد کردار)
  Sentence:
  * Satish is a black sheep of the family.
  * All others are respectable, but he's the black sheep in the family.
  * Our school has produced very good citizens but there are black sheep too.
  * We should point at the black sheep of the society.
  
  
• Bosom friend:
  Meaning: (جگری دوست)
  Sentence:
  * Kashif is my bosom friend.
  
  
• To break the ice:
  Meaning: (to overcome shyness and put people at ease with one another. / خاموشی توڑنا)
• Sentence:
  * Each felt shy to talk till one of them offered tea to the other and break the ice.
  * Both person keep quiet, each waiting for the other to break the ice.
  * At last, Maria broke the ice and started the discussion.
  
  
• To bring to an end:
  Meaning: (ختم کردینا)
  Sentence:
  * The speaker brought his speech to an end.
  
  
• To bring to book:
  Meaning: (باز پرس کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * The judge will bring him to book.
  
  
• To bring to light:
  Meaning: (ظاہر کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * I have brought to light the fact.
  
  
• Burning question:
  Meaning: (گرما گرم موضوع)
  Sentence:
  * Kala Bagh dam is still a burning question.
  
  
• Bury the hatchet:
  Meaning: (صلح کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * Let's bury the hatchet and be friend again.
  
  
• By and by:
  Meaning: (آہستہ آہستہ)
  Sentence:
  * By and by he recovered from illness.
  
  
• By and large:
  Meaning: (ہر طرح سے)
  Sentence:
  * By and large he is a good man.
  
  
• By fits and starts:
  Meaning: (Not steadily or regularly / بے ضابطگی سے)
  Sentence:
  * He worked by fits and starts so it was doubtful.
  * He can never hold a steady job since he works by fits and starts.
  * This watch works sometimes, by fits and starts.
  
  
• By hook or by crook:
  Meaning: (جائز یا نا جائز طریقے سے)
  Sentence:
  *By hook or by crook, he wants to achieve his goal.
  
  
• By leaps and bounds:
  Meaning: (تیزی سے)
  Sentence:
  * Science is making progress by leaps and bounds.
  

C

• To call a spade a spade:
  Meaning: (صاف گوئی، حق بات کہنا)
  Sentence:
  * John always calls a spade a spade.
  
  
• Cast an eye on:
  Meaning: (ایک نظر ڈالنا)
  Sentence:
  * The principal cast an eye on my application.
  
  
• Catch at a straw:
  Meaning: (حقیر سی شۓ کا سہارا لینا)
  Sentence:
  * It is said that drowning man catches at a straw.
  
  
• Catch red handed:
  Meaning: (رنگے ہاتھوں پکڑنا)
  Sentence:
  * The thief was caught red-handed.
  
  
• To come to blows:
  Meaning: (ہاتھا پائی پر اترجانا)
  Sentence:
  * At first they abused each other and then came to blows.
  
  
• To come to grief:
  Meaning: (مصیبت میں پھنسنا)
  Sentence:
  * If you do not mend your way, you will come to grief.
  
  
• To come to light:
  Meaning: (ظاہر ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * Many new realities came to light during recent years.
  
  
• To come to pass:
  Meaning: (واقع ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * It is really sad thing that such a thing came to pass.
  
  
• Cry for the moon:
  Meaning: (ناممکن بات کی خواہش کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * To be a millionaire, is just crying for the moon.
  
  
• Cry over spilt milk:
  Meaning: (To grieve over something uselessly. / وقت گزرنے کے بعد پچھتانا)
  Sentence:
  * It is no use crying over spilt milk.
  * He damage has been done, but instead of crying over spilt milk, do something to repair.
  * There's no sense in crying over a spilt milk. If the glass is broken, just buy another one.
  * It is useless crying over spilt milk.
  
  
• Cut a sorry figure:
  Meaning: (شرمندگی اٹھانا)
  Sentence:
  * He cut a sorry figure as a politician.
  

D

• Day in and day out:
  Meaning: (Daily, day after day / روزانہ)
  Sentence:
  * He works day in and day out to get first division.
  * I worked day in and day out, for a whole month to prepare for the exams.
  * I've been warning you day in and day out, that you should bring all your books to school.
  
  
• Die in harness:
  Meaning: (To die while on duty / دیوٹی دیتے ہوۓ مرجانا)
  Sentence:
  * He died in harness.
  

E

• End in smoke:
  Meaning: (To have no result, to come to nothing / ٹائیں ٹائی فش ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * The meeting ended in smoke.
  * All his efforts ended in smoke.
  * Unless you preserve, your work will end in smoke.
  * The soldiers struggled hard to destroy the foe’s base but it ended in smoke.
  
  

F

• Fall to the ground:
  Meaning: (اثر نہ رکھنا)
  Sentence:
  * As he failed in the exams, all his plans fell to the ground.
  
  
• Fair play:
  Meaning: (انصاف پسندی)
  Sentence:
  * We should not forget the rules of fair play.
  
  
• A fair weather friend:
  Meaning: (مطلبی دوست)
  Sentence:
  * We should be aware of our fair weather friends.
  
  
• Far and wide
  Meaning: (دور دور تک)
  Sentence:
  * They searched far and wide for the missing child.
  * We searched far and wide but couldn't find the lost child.
  * This tour will take you over far and wide of the country.
  * People from far and wide places came to see to newly born baby of the Kangaroo in the zoo.
  
  
• A far cry:
  Meaning: (ناممکن)
  Sentence:
  * The solution of the inflation is still a far cry.
  
  
• To feel like fish out of water
  Meaning: To feel out of place
  Sentence:
  *  Being the only educated man in that village, I feel like a fish out of water there.
  * I was the only one who spoke English and felt like a fish out of water in that group.
  * Aslam was the only member of Women rights association and felt like a fish out of water.
  
  
• Few and far between:
  Meaning: (بہت کم)
  Sentence:
  * My visits to his house are few and far between.
  
  
• Fool's paradise:
  Meaning: ( احمقوں کی جنت)
  Sentence:
  * He lives in fool's paradise. French leave:Meaning: (بغیر اطلاع کے چھٹی)Sentence:* He often takes French leave from the office. from hand to mouth:Meaning: (تنگدستی سے)Sentence:* The old man is living from hand to mouth.

G

• Give ear to:
  Meaning: (کان دھرنا)
  Sentence:
  * You should not give ear to his foolish talk.
  
  
• Go hand in hand:
  Meaning: (ساتھ ساتھ ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * Health and beauty go hand in hand.
  golden age:Meaning: (سنہری زمانہ)Sentence:* I spent the golden age in my native village.

H

• Hard and fast:
  Meaning: (جچے تلے)
  Sentence:
  * There are no hard and fast rules for moral judgments.
  
  
• Hard nut to crack:
  Meaning: (ایک مشکل مسئلہ)
  Sentence:
  * The problem of load shedding in our country is a hard nut to crack.
  
  
• Hair-breadth escape:
  Meaning: (بال بال بچنا)
  Sentence:
  * Hurrah! I had a hair breadth escape in the accident.
  
  
• Hand to mouth:
  Meaning: (بمشکل گزارہ ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * The poor live from hand to mouth.
  
  To have a bone to pick with someone:
  Meaning: (کسی کے خلاف شکایت ہونا)
  Sentence:
  * I have a bone to pick with you about cruelty and injustice shown by you.
  
  
• To have the lion’s share
  Meaning: To take the biggest share of something.
  Sentence:
  * Divide the cake into equal slices and don’t have the lion’s share for yourself.
  * The stronger person generally have the lion's share.
  * Divide the profit share equally and don’t have the lion’s share.
  
  
• Heart and soul:
  Meaning: (پوری طاقت)
  Sentence:
  * He put his heart and soul into the work.
  
  
• Here and there:
  Meaning: ( ادھر ادھر)
  Sentence:
  * I looked for my last book here and there.
  
  
• Hue and cry:
  Meaning: (شور وغل)
  Sentence:
  * The people raised a hue and cry against new tax proposals.
  

I

• In black and white
  Meaning: (in writing / تحریر میں).
  Sentences:
  * I will not accept your offer until I see it in black and white.
  * I cannot accept Our oral complaint. It must be in black and white.
  * The teacher rejected the student’s oral application by saying that it must be in black and white.
  * He gave me a warning in black and white.
  
  
• An iron will:
  Meaning: (مضبوط عزم)
  Sentence:
  * David has an iron will to finish his work in time.
  
  
•  Its high time
  Meaning: The moment has already come.
  Sentence:
  * The exams begin next month as its high time by now.
  * The movie will start in fifteen minutes so it's high time we left.
  * The cricket match will start in twenty minutes so it’s high time we should leave for the stadium.

J

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K

• Keep body and soul together:
  Meaning: (زندہ رہنا)
  Sentence:
  * We should eat as much as would keep our body and soul together.
  
• To kick up a row
  Meaning: To make a disturbance or noise
  Sentence:
  * You need not kick up a row. Ask politely.
  * If you don’t kick up a row, you will not be paid attention to.
  * The young boys started kicking up a row, when Michael Jackson began to sing.
  
  
• Kith and kin:
  Meaning: (قریبی رشتہ دار)
  Sentence:
  * We should always be kind to our kith and kin.
  * We should help our kith and kin.

L

• The lion's share:
  Meaning: (سب سے بڑا حصہ)
  Sentence:
  * As usual, the lion's share of the budget is for politicians.
  

M

• To make one’s mouth water:
  Meaning: (To cause someone to desire something intensely, especially food.)
  Sentence:
  * As soon as we got the smell of food, it made our mouth water.
  * The sight of the food was enough to make his mouth water.
  
  
• To make the both ends meet
  Meaning: (To be able to live within one’s income)
  Sentence:
  * I had to take up a part time job to be able to make the both ends meet.
  * Due to inflation, salaried people can't make both ends meet.
  
  
• To make the most of
  Meaning: (To take the fullest advantage of the circumstances)
  Sentence:
  * He let me use his bicycle for a month so I’m going to make the most of it.
  * Youth is the best time of one's life so make the most of it.
  
  
• Make room for:
  Meaning: (جگہ بنانا)
  Sentence:
  * Please make room for this boy.
  man of parts:Meaning: (قابل آدمی)Sentence:* Major Aziz Bhatti was a man of parts.
  
  
• Mind one's own business:
  Meaning: (اپنے کام سے کام رکھنا)
  Sentence:
  * At last, I asked him to mind his own business and not to quarrel with me.
  
  
• More or less:
• Meaning: (تقریباً)
• Sentence:
• * There are more or less twenty thousand people in the park.

N

• Narrow escape:
  Meaning: (بال بال بچنا)
  Sentence:
  * He had a narrow escape in the accident.
  
  Nip the evil in the bud:
  Meaning: (To stop evil in the early stages /برائی کو ختم کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * We must nip the evil in the bud.
  * The plot to overthrow the government was detected and nipped in the bud.
  * Bad behaviour in children must be nipped in the bud.
  * He should not prevail the bad atmosphere in the society and try, to nip in the bud of crimes.
  
  
• Now and then:
  Meaning: (کبھی کبھار)
  Sentence:
  * We go to the opera now and then.
  
  
• Null and void:
  Meaning: (کالعدم)
  Sentence:
  * This law is null and void these days.

O

• Odds and ends
  Meaning: (A collection of objects not belonging to any group of order / left over and discarded / متفرقات)
  Sentence:
  * I have no complete sets of text-books, only odds and ends.
  * That shop does not sell anything in particular. It has only odds and ends.
  * He claims that he is very fond of collecting precious stones, but his collection contains only odds and ends.
  * There are just a few odds and ends left in the room.
  once and again:Meaning: (بار بار)Sentence:* He repeated the same mistake once and again. once in a blue moon:Meaning: (کبھی کبھار)Sentence:* He comes to college once in a blue moon. on and off/off and on:Meaning: (وقتًافوقتا)Sentence:* It rained on and off all day.
• An open secret:
  Meaning: (کھلا راز)
  Sentence:
  * Her marriage is an open secret.
  out and out:Meaning: (مکمل طور پر)Sentence:* He is evil out and out out of date:Meaning: (پرانا)Sentence:* This fashion is out of date.

P

• part and parcel:Meaning: (لازمی جزو)Sentence:* Discipline should be a part and parcel of every student's life.
  Poison the ears:
  Meaning: (بد ظن کرنا، کان بھرنا)
  Sentence:
  * Who has poisoned the ears of my office against me?
  
  
• Poke one's nose into:
  Meaning: (To meddle or interfere / خواہ مخواہ دخل دیتے پھرنا)
  Sentence:
  * Do not poke your nose into my business.
  * Don't poke your nose into other people's affair.
  * She has the bad habit of poking her nose into the matters that are not her concern.
  * According to the charter of U.N. no country is allowed to poke her nose into the personal affairs of any country.
  
  
• Pull one's leg:
  Meaning: (سخت مخالفت کرنا، سازش کرنا)
  Sentence:
  * Someone is trying to pull his leg.
  
  

Q

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R

• A rainy day:
  Meaning: (مصیبت کا دن)
  Sentence:
  * Every wise man saves something for the rainy day.
  
  
• A red letter day:
  Meaning: (بہت خوشی کا دن)
  Sentence:
  * 14th August is a red letter day for us.

S

• Safe and sound:
  Meaning: (بخیر و عافیت)
  Sentence:
  * We reached home safe and sound.
  
  
• To save something for rainy day
  Meaning: To keep for some future necessity which may arise.
  Sentence:
  * He wasted all his savings and has save nothing for a rainy day.
  * Don't spend all your money. Save something for a rainy day.
  * He lost all his money in gamble and didn’t save anything for a rainy day.
  
  
• To see eye to eye with someone
  Meaning: to have the same opinion or to agree with.
  Sentence:
  * I don't see eye to eye with my friends specially when they ask me to stop further studies and join some service.
  * Management seldom to see eye to eye with labour.
  * The opposition saw eye to eye when the Government is passing the bill against 8th amendment.
  
  
• To shed crocodile's tear:
  Meaning: (to weep insincerely, or hypocritically / جھو ٹے آنسو / مگرمچھ کے آنسو)
  Sentence:
  * The Miller, shed crocodile's tear over little Han's death.
  * They were not all sorry when he died. They just shedded crocodile tears.
  * Don't be deceived by that beggar's crying. They just shedded crocodile tears.
  
  
• A short cut:
  Meaning: (آسان طریقہ)
  Sentence:
  * They took a short cut across the fields.
  
  
• Slow and steady:
  Meaning: (مستقل مزاج)
  Sentence:
  * Slow and steady wins the race.
  
  
• Spill the beans (راز فاش کرنا):
  
  
• Step by step:
  Meaning: (آہستہ آہستہ)
  Sentence:
  * China made progress step by step.

T

• A thankless task:
  Meaning: (ایسا کام جس کا احسان نہ مانا جائے)
  Sentence:
  * Teaching is becoming a thankless task.
  
  
• Through and through:
  Meaning: (مکمل طور پر)
  Sentence:
  * Mr. Latif is a reliable man through and through.
  
  
• Time and again:
  Meaning: (بار بار)
  Sentence:
  * Fahad visited us time and again while he was in Karachi.
  
  
• To and fro:
  Meaning: (آگے پیچھے)
  Sentence:
  * The children are running to and fro.
  
  
• Tooth and nail:
  Meaning: (پوری طاقت سے)
  Sentence:
  * Our soldiers fought tooth and nail.
  
  
• To turn a deaf ear to
  Meaning: To pay no attention.
  Sentence:
  * Never listen to rumors. Turn a deaf ear to them.
  * The employee kept pleading his case but the manager refused to turned a deaf ear to it.
  * Pakistan has raised Kashmir issue several times in the United Nations but it had turned a deaf ear to it.
  
  
• To turn over a new leaf
  Meaning: To reform, to behave better
  Sentence:
  * The teacher pardoned the boy on the condition that he promised to turn over a new leaf.
  * The criminal promised the judge that he would turn over a new leaf.
  * The death of his parents turned over a new leaf in his life.
• Turn over a new leaf:
  
  
• Turn the tables:
  Meaning: (change the situation completely / حالات کا رخ بدلنا)
  Sentence:
  * Heroes of the nation turn the tables
  * Fortune turned the tables and she won the table tennis final.
  
  

U

• Under one’s nose
  Meaning: (Immediately with reach / براہ است کسی کے سامنے)
  Sentence:
  * He searched all over for it, though it was lying under his nose all the time.
  * You don’t have to go far. It’s under your nose.
  * I looked for my English copy everywhere and it was under my nose all the time.
  * I put the bill under his nose so that he could not miss it.
• ups and downs:Meaning: (نشیب وفراز)Sentence:* There are many ups and downs in my life.

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W

• A wild goose chase
  Meaning: An enterprise which will not succeed.
  Sentence:
  * The thief let the police on a wild goose chase.
  * The old man ran after the boy but a wild goose chase him.
  * The coast guards ran after the criminals in their boats on a wild goose chase.
• With a high hand
  Meaning: Disregarding the feeling of other.
  Sentence:
  * He settled matters with a high hand and ignored the requests of all concerned. / He is most unpopular because he decides matter with a high hand.
• With flying colours
  Meaning: To emerge successfully from some difficult task.
  Sentence:
  * He passed his examination with flying colors.
  * Our team returned from the match with flying colours.
  * Pakistan succeeded in the 1965 war against India with flying colours.
• With heart and soul
  Meaning: All one’s energies and interest.
  Sentence:
  * That teacher is very popular because she works with heart and soul.
  * It's no use having an employee who does not put heart and soul in his work.
  * We should serve our country with heart and soul.
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