Idioms and Phrases/ Phrasal verbs
Idiom: Idioms are a collection of words or phrases which have a figurative meaning that is generally well established and known. So these words can’t be taken at their literal meanings since they would sound farcical. Idioms, at times, seem grammatically unusual as well.
Phrase: A phrase is a small group of words that are like a unit. These units are a part of a bigger sentence or a clause. Phrases are unlike idioms, they are actually direct and to the point. They do not figurative meanings; the expression means what the words indicate.
Phrasal Verb: Phrasal verbs have two parts: a main verb and an adverb particle. This combines a normal verb with an adverb or a preposition to create a new verbal phrase .The meaning of the verbal phase is completely different than it combined parts.
1. Ask out (invite on a date) Bashir asked Mohan out to dinner and a movie.
2. Ask around (ask the same question) I asked around but nobody has seen my phone.
3. Bear away (to get): Bashir bore away prizes.
4. Bear out (to support): He will bear me out that I am not a robber.
5. Bear with (to put up with): I cannot bear with such a great noise.
6. Bear down (to overthrow): The king bore down his opponents.
7. Break down (to fail): His health has broken down on account of hard work.
8. Break into (make a forcible entry): The thieves broke into his house.
9. Break off (to stop): He has broken off all the relations with his brothers.
10. Break out (to appear and spread): Cholera has broken out in the town.
11. Break up (to come to an end): The meeting has already broken up.
12. Bring about (to cause): Can you bring about their compromise?
13. Bring up (to rear): The children are brought up by the mother.
14. Bring round (to conciliate): Can you bring him round to our views?
15. Call for (demand): An explanation of the minister was called for.
16. Cell in (to summon): Call in the doctor.
17. Call on (to visit): I called on the Prime Minister.
18. Carry out (to execute): The students must carry out theorders of their teachers.
19. Carry off (taken away): The small child was carried off.
20. Carry on (to manage): Carry on your business now.
21. Carry away (to win): The field was carried away by our team.
22. Cast away (to destroy): The new ship was cast away on account of collision with a rock in the sea.
23. Come off (to take place): The test match will come off on day after tomorrow.
24. Come across (to meet): I had come across a friend before I met you.
25. Come round (to agree): My dissentient friend has come round now.
26. Cut off (to be killed): The young man's life was cut off on account of tuberculosis.
27. Do away with (abolish): Do away with bad customs.
28. Draw near (to approach): As the armies drew nearer to thetown, the people built arches to welcome them.
29. To deal in (to trade): He deals in grocery.
30. Deal with (treat): He dealt with his servants very kindly.
31. Fall in with (agree): The opposition parties fell in with the governmental views.
32. Fall out (to quarrel): Do not fall out on petty things.
33. Fall through (to fail): Even the best schemes fall through, for want of funds.
34. Get on (fare): How are you getting on these days?
35. Get over (to overcome): We can easily get over difficulties.
36. Get rid of (to be free from): Get rid of evil company.
37. Give in (to yield): The enemy at last gave in.
38. Give off (emit): The flowers give off sweet smell.
39. Give up (to leave): Give up bad habits.
40. Give out (to declare): It was given out that the prisoners would be released soon.
41. Give way (to yield): The strong forces of the enemy gave way and were vanquished.
42. Give birth to (to deliver): She gave birth to a triplet.
43. Go out (to be extinguished): The candle went out and there was darkness.
44. Go through (to suffer): He went through many difficulties.
45. Go without (to live without): Go without food today and have a fast.
46. Hold good (to be valid): The restrictions hold good under the present circumstances.
47. Hand over (to surrender): Hand over this necklace to me, please.
48. Keep up (maintain): The army kept up spirits and fought on.
49. Keep on (continue): She kept on working day and night.
50. Keep one's word (to fulfil one's promise): Please keep your word, if you wish to rise in life.
51. Lay by (to save): Lay by something for a rainy day.
52. Look after (to take care): Look after your old parents.
53. Look down upon (to despise): Never look down upon the poor.
54. Look up (to rise): The prices are looking up these days.
55. Look forward to (to expect): We are looking forward to good days.
56. Make out (to discover): Can you make out something noble in the child?
57. Pass away (to die): His parents passed away leaving him an orphan.
58. Pass through (undergo): They passed through tribulations.
59. Pick out (to select): Please pick out the best book out of this stack.
60. Put down (to repress): The revolt was put down by the soldiers.
61. Put on (to clothe): Put on your clothes.
62. Put out (extinguish): Put out the fire immediately.
63. Put off (to delay): Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
64. Put up with (to tolerate): Can you put up with such an insult?
65. Run over (to crush): The boy was ran over by the scooter.
66. Sleep over (not to consider seriously): He slept over the matter.
67. See off (to bid farewell to): Kindly see her off at the railway station.
68. See through (to detect): The police saw through that trick of his.
69. Send for (call in): Please send for a doctor.
70. Set aside (to annul): The decision of the lower court was set aside by the Supreme Court.
71. Set up (to start): Please set up your business.
72. Set in (to begin): The rainy season has already set in.
73. Stand by (to support): Please stand by your master through thick and thin.
74. Strike down (to attack): The Indian forces struck down the Pakistani forces in Kashmir.
75. Take after (resemble): The son takes after his father.
76. Take for (to consider wrongly): I took him for the Minister of Social Service.
77. Take to heart (to feel): Please don't take your failure in the examination to heart and pluck up a little courage.
78. To take to task (to reprimand): The teacher took him to task.
79. Tell upon (to affect adversely): Too much work told upon his health.
80. Throw out (reject): The bill will not be thrown out by the Assembly.
81. Turn up (to come): The students turned up for the atten- dance.
82. Turn off (stop): Turn off the tap.
83. Turn a deaf ear to (to disregard): Turn a deaf ear to therumours.
84. Turn over a new leaf (to start afresh): Turn over a new leaf now in the new surroundings.
85. Work up (to excite): The speaker worked up the sentiments of the crowd that got infuriated.
86. To add fuel to the fire (to increase tension): He quarrelled with his enemy again and thus added fuel to the fire.
87. To avail oneself of (to take advantage of): Avail yourself of this opportunity.
88. To bring to book (to get punished): The thieves and robbers were brought to book.
89. To blow one's own trumpet (to praise own self): Don't blow your own trumpet everywhere.
90. To be at daggers' drawn (to be at enmity): Why are these two friends at daggers' drawn?
91. To blow over (to pass away): The storm blew over soon.
92. To bury the hatchet (to give up quarrel): Bury the hatchet and become friends now.
93. To bring to light (to reveal): The speaker brought the facts to light.
94. To cut a sorry figure (to fail miserably): Don't cut a sorry figure in the debate please.
95. To cry over spilt milk (to be sorry uselessly): Don't cry over spilt milk.
96. To end in smoke (to prove useless): All his efforts ended in smoke.
97. To find fault with (to criticise): Do not try to find fault with others please.
98. To leave no stone unturned (to do everything): He left no stone unturned to render service to her.
99. To make the most of (to benefit by): Make the most of this opportunity please.
100. To nip in the bud (to stop evil in the beginning): Nip the evil in the bud.
101. To run short (to want more): The soldiers ran short of provisions.
102. To blow out (to put out): Blow out the lamp and go to bed.
103. To break the ice (to break silence): Break the ice and start speaking.
104. To call in question (to doubt): Her integrity was called in question and she felt it.
105. Carry the day (to win): The Indian armies carried the day.
106. Come to blows: The friends came to blows and a quarrel ensued.
107. Come to light (to be known): This news also came to light.
108. Fall in love with (to begin to love): She fell in love with him at an early age and married him later on.
109. To die in harness (to work right up to death): The elder brother died in harness and before that he had killed seven dacoits in the encounter.
110. To gird up one's loins (to prepare for something): Gird up your loins and start fighting for your rights.
111. To leave in the lurch (to desert): In adversity, false friends always leave us in the lurch.
112. To make neither head nor tail of (to make out nothing): I can neither make head nor tail of what you say.
113. To take up arms (to start fighting): Take up arms against all sorts of injustice please.
114. To spin a yarn-(to invent a story). Sailors are very fond of spinning yarns.
115. To give quarter to-be merciful to). No quarter should be given to those who shout anti-India slogans.
116. Get the hang of (to understand the general idea). I could not get the hang of his speech.
117. Go a wool-gathering (be absent-minded). He does not pay attention to important details. It seems his intelligence has gone a wool-gathering.
118. To keep one's counsel- (to keep one's thoughts to oneself). We should keep our counsel unless we are asked to give our opinion.
119. Knock the bottom out of-(render argument invalid). With his logic and intelligence, he knocked the bottom out of his rival's arguments.
120. To lie low-(to keep quite). Being out of power, he was lying low and waiting for better days.
121. Hard put to it (to be in difficulty). As I had no money, I was hard put to it.
122. Plain sailing-(easy, smooth). Success in life is plain sailing for a man who can work hard.
123. Blow over-(to pass away). The storm of opposition will soon blow over.
124. To egg on-(to instigate). The students were egged on by their ring leaders to go on a strike.
125. Touch and go of uncertain nature, risky event). He is pursuing a touch and go business.
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