Some Important Idioms:
Picture paints a thousand words
A picture says more than words. So photographic evidence is more reliable than what you hear. Say, we believed Virat Kohli was dating Anushka Sharma when the photos arrived on E-papers!
Piece of cake
Or, Cake walk – means very easy. Who thought the IBPS PO exam was cake walk? Or, ‘I thing this article is going to be a piece of cake for me’!
Put wool over other people's eyes
To dupe or to cheat someone.
See eye to eye
To mutually agree on something.
Sit on the fence
Again undecided and confused or wants to take time to decide.
Speak of the devil
Aha! ‘Shaitaan ka naam lo and shaitaan…haazir.’
Spilling the beans
To let out a secret.
Steal someone's thunder
Never steal anyone’s thunder; i.e., never take credit of other’s work.
Take with a grain of salt
To take things not too seriously. C’mon lighten up!
Taste of your own medicine
To experience what you meet out to others. The teachers who give physical punishments to students must be given their own medicines
Picture paints a thousand words
A picture says more than words. So photographic evidence is more reliable than what you hear. Say, we believed Virat Kohli was dating Anushka Sharma when the photos arrived on E-papers!
Piece of cake
Or, Cake walk – means very easy. Who thought the IBPS PO exam was cake walk? Or, ‘I thing this article is going to be a piece of cake for me’!
Put wool over other people's eyes
To dupe or to cheat someone.
See eye to eye
To mutually agree on something.
Sit on the fence
Again undecided and confused or wants to take time to decide.
Speak of the devil
Aha! ‘Shaitaan ka naam lo and shaitaan…haazir.’
Spilling the beans
To let out a secret.
Steal someone's thunder
Never steal anyone’s thunder; i.e., never take credit of other’s work.
Take with a grain of salt
To take things not too seriously. C’mon lighten up!
Taste of your own medicine
To experience what you meet out to others. The teachers who give physical punishments to students must be given their own medicines
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