- At sixes and seven – In disorder or confusion
- Lose head – Panic
- Take to task – To criticize severely/ to punish
- Sit in judgement – To pass judgement(or comment on someone ) especially when you have no authority
- Leave in the lurch – To desert someone
- Cry over spilt milk – Cry over irreparable loss
- Bad blood – Active enmity
- Close shave – A narrow escape
- Grease palms – To bribe someone
- Carrot and stick – Reward and punishment policy
- To cut teeth – To gain experience of something for the first time
- Cut no ice – Had no influence
- Close the book – Stop working on something
- In fits and starts – Irregularly
- Bird’s eye view – An overview
- Run in the same groove – Clash with each other
- Keep your head – Remain calm
- Pull strings – Use personal influence
- Pot luck dinner – Dinner where somebody brings something to eat
- To hit below the belt – To attack unfairly
- All at sea – Puzzled
- Sought after – Wanted by many people because it’s of good quality or difficult to find/Pursued by
- Build castle in the air – Daydreaming
- On the spur of the moment – To act suddenly, without planning
- To have something up one’s sleeve – To have a secret plan
- A red letter day – An important or joyful occasion in one’s life
- To explore every avenue – To try every opportunity
- At one’s beck and call – Ready to follow orders/ To be dominated by someone
- By fair or foul means – In honest or dishonest way
- Status quo – As it is/ unchanged position
- To burn candle at both ends – To be extravagant/ Spend without any worry
- To hit the jackpot – To make money quickly
- To bring to light – to reveal
- At the eleventh hour – At the last possible moment
- Go scot-free – To escape without punishment
- To shed crocodile tears – To pretend grief
- To look down one’s nose – To regard with contempt
- To miss the bus – To miss an opportunity
- A white elephant – Costly and troublesome possession, with much use to its owner
- To call spade a spade – To be frank
- To fight tooth and nail – To fight heroically, in very determined way
- Birds of same feather – Persons of same character
- Take exception – To object over something
- High handed – Using authority in an unreasonable way, overbearing
- Too fond of one’s own voice – To like talking without wanting to listen to other people/Very selfish
- By leaps and bounds – Rapidly
- An open book – Straight forward and honest dealings
- Fall short – Fail to meet expectation/ have no effect
- Heart to heart talk – Frank talk
- Give the game away – Give out the secret(unintentionally)
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