IDIOMS AND PHRASE FOR ||UPSC||LIC||CDPO||BPSC||SSC||RAILWAY||

Grease the palm                               :-to bribe
Golden mean                                   :-middle way
Fish in troubled waters                   :-to make profit when others are                                                              in trouble
Fool's paradise                               :-foolish hope
Cast pearls before swine                :-to offer to person something                                            whose value he cannot understand or assess
Call names                                     :-to abuse
Cry over spilt milk                        :-to feel sorry for the past
Catch a tartar                                 :- very powerful
Between scylla and charybdis      :-between two difficulties
Bad blood                                     :-enmity
Blockhead                                    :-fool
Bear the brunt of                          :-to bear the main attack
Bread and butter                           :-liveihood
A bottle-neck                                :-obstacle
A far cry                                       :-very distant

All Greek and Latin                     :-very difficult to understand
Head will roll                               :-used to say that some people will be punished because of something that has happened.
Bull in china shop                        :-to be extremly clumsy
Cat got your tongue                     :-not being able to reply, being                                                              baffled
To give somebody a piece 
of your mind                                :-to criticize somebody angrily
Make no bones about sth.            :- not hesitate to do something,
Eager beaver                                :-hardworking , industrious
Hold horse                                   :-to be patient, to have patience
The green eyed monster              :-jealousy
Let the cat out of the bag             :-to give away or let out a secret
An open book                              :-a person or thing whose behaviour, attitudes, thoughts etc are very easy to understand, either because you know them very well or because they are very open and honest.
To take the bull by its horns       :- to be brave in a figtening or                                                                 dangerous situations
To set the record straight            :- to give a correct explanation or                                                             account of something.
Wild goose chase                        :- a fruitless/futile attempt