Some Popular Idioms in English:
Adding insult to injury
Or, ‘jale pe namak’! Means to add to a person’s loss or misery.
Back to the drawing board
To start all over again when an initial plan fails.
Ball is in your court
Now it is up to you to decide what you want to do!
Barking up the wrong tree
Looking in the wrong place.
Best of both worlds
Having or wanting to take advantage of two different opportunities.
Bite off more than you can chew
Doing or undertaking to do more than one’s capacity.
Burn the midnight oil
To work/ study late in the night.
Caught between two stools
A situation where one finds needs to choose between two options and has difficulty in deciding.
Costs an arm and a leg
Extremely expensive. ‘The swiss watch would cost me an arm and leg!’
Adding insult to injury
Or, ‘jale pe namak’! Means to add to a person’s loss or misery.
Back to the drawing board
To start all over again when an initial plan fails.
Ball is in your court
Now it is up to you to decide what you want to do!
Barking up the wrong tree
Looking in the wrong place.
Best of both worlds
Having or wanting to take advantage of two different opportunities.
Bite off more than you can chew
Doing or undertaking to do more than one’s capacity.
Burn the midnight oil
To work/ study late in the night.
Caught between two stools
A situation where one finds needs to choose between two options and has difficulty in deciding.
Costs an arm and a leg
Extremely expensive. ‘The swiss watch would cost me an arm and leg!’
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