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Idioms/ Phrases	Meaning
Take after	Resembles
Take away	Remove
Take down	Record
Take for	Misunderstand
Take heart	Cheered up
Take in	Admit
Take it ill	Too be offended
Take people inn	Cheat people
Take time by the forelock	Prepare action before time
Take up the cudgels	To support somebody
Take up the cudgels for	Defend vigorously
Take up with	Be friendly with
Take wind out of another’s sails	To gain advantage by anticipation
Taken aback	Surprised
Taken in	Deceived
Taken to	Resorted to
Taken with	Pleased with
Tarred with same brush	Posses the same defects
The alpha and the omega	The beginning and the end
The Ball Is In Your Court:	It is your decision this time.
The Best Of Both Worlds:	There are two choices and you have them both.
The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall:	While the bigger and stronger opponent might be alot more difficult to beat, when you do they suffer a much bigger loss.
The bill of fare	The menu
The cock of the walk	The most dominant person in a group
The cut of one’s jib	A person’s personal appearances or manner
The devils own luck	Good luck
The fat end	The last part
The flesh	Physical or bodily desires , sensual appetites
The heels of Achilles	The weak point in a person
The king of terror	Death
The last straw	An addition to a task, burden, etc. Which strained one’s patience to the limit
The lie of the land	Assessment of a situation
The mote in somebody’s eye	A very minor mistake (of somebody)
The primrose path	The pursuit of pleasure
The quick and dead	All people alive or dead
The thin end of the wedge	The beginning of further concessions
The tip of the iceberg	Small but evident part of a much larger concealed situation
The Whole Nine Yards:	Everything. All of it.
The worse for wear	Shabby from use
Third times a charm:	After no success the first two times, the third try is a lucky one.
Through thick and thin	Under any circumstances
Throw a spanner	To be defeated
Throw down the gauntlet	Challenge someone, Behaved as very great and important person
Thrust down one’s throat	Remind repeatedly
Tie the knot:	To get married.
Till the cows come home	For a long time
Tiptoe	Anxious
To a hair	Exactly
To accept the gauntlet	To suffer humiliation
To and fro	Backwards and forwards
To back side	To fall back in morals
To back spear	To question in order to bring out some information
To be all legs	To be a tall and very thin person
To be at daggers drawn	To be bitter enemy
To be at one’s beds	To worship
To be at one’s finger’s end	To be completely conversant with
To be at the end of one’s tether	To have no resources left
To be in abeyance	In suspense
To be in the black(Of one’s money)	To be in credit
To be in the picture	To be familiar with the matter
To be lost in the cloud	To be perplexed
To be nobody’s fool	To be wise
To be par for the course	To be what one would expect to happen or expect somebody to do
To be the dead spit of	Exact counterpart or likeness of
To be up and doing	To be actively engaged
To be up before somebody	To appear in court
To bear a grudge	To have a better felling
To bear away the palm	To win
To bear the palm	To win
To bear up with	To endure
To beat a retreat	To march back after a ceremonious parade
To beat hollow	To defeat completely
To beggars’ description	Beyond one’s power to describe adequately
To bid fair	To seem likely
To bill and coo	To whisper endearments as lovers
To black ball	Prevent from doing something
To blaze trail	To initiate work in a movement
To blow hot and clod	To be inconsistent
To blow the gaff	To revel a secret
To borrow beat	To bully
To brace oneself for	To prepare for something unpleasant or difficult
To break the duck	To begin
To bring one’s egg to a bad market	To fail in one’s plan because one goes to the wrong people for help
To bury one’s head in the sand	To avoid the reality
To care a damn/farthing	To have no care at all
To carry off the bell	To bag the first position
to carry off the palm	To be victorious
To carry the can	Accept the blame
To carry the coal to Newcastle	To do unnecessary things
To carry with one	To satisfy
To cast a chill over	To spread sadness
To cast into the shade	To make less noticeable
To cast the pearl before a swine	To offer someone a thing which he cannot appreciate
To catch a tartar	To deal with someone or something that proves unexpectedly troublesome or powerful
To catch somebody on the hop to	To catch somebody of guard
To catch/clutch at a straw	To try any expedient however useless
To champ at the bit	To be restlessly impatient
To change the colour	To shift the allegations to
To chew the fat	To chat
To come of age	To be major
To condemn to death	To award punishment of death
To cook one’s goose	To ruin one’s chances or plans completely
To cool one’s heels	To be kept watching for sometime
To cross one’s mind	To occur , strike
To cry Halves	To claim with equal share
To cry over a spilt milk	To reach a crisis
To cry shame upon	To oppose, to protest against
To cry stinking fish	To decry one’s own good
To cry wolf	To raise a false alarm
To curry favour	Gain favour
To cut both ends	To argue in support of both sides of the issue
To cut somebody down	To kill somebody
To cut the crackle	To stop talking and start
To cut the Gordian knot	to be victorious
To cut your teeth	To gain experience
To die in shoes	To be murdered
To disabuse one’s mind	To remove a misapprehension
To draw bead upon	To take aim at
To draw the long bow	To make and exaggerated statement
To drive at	To employ
To drive home	To emphasize
To eat one’s terms	To study for the bar(law)
To egg on	To urge on
To fall aboard of	To start fighting/ quarrelling
To fall foul of	To quarrel
To feather one’s nest	To provide money even dishonestly
To feel in one’s bone	To know or sense some thing intuitively
To fight to the bitter end	To carry on a contest regardless of consequences
To fish in troubled water	To try to win advantages for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs, to take advantage of troubled or uncertain conditions for personal gain n
To fly in the face of	To act in defiance of authority , facts , custom
To fly off the handle	To lose one’s temper
To fly off the handle	To get into a rage and lose self-control
To fool around	To waste time
To foot the bill	To make payment
To forbid the banns	To object the banns
To gain the ground	To become more general
To get along	To manage to
To get at	Reach
To get cold feet	To be afraid
To get into a flap	To be in a state of agitation , confusion, nervous, excitement etc.
To get into a stew	To have an anxious state of mind
To get into bad odour	To become popular
To get into scrape	To find oneself in an awkward predicament
To get the axe	To be dismissed from a job
To get the hang of thing	To understand the meaning of it
To give a rap on the knuckles	To rebuke
To give chapter and verse for a thing	To produce the proof of something
To give currency to	To pay much attention to
To give get/give the bird	To send away
To give one’s ears	To listen carefully
to give up the ghost	To die
To go by	to be guided by
To go for the juggler	To make a destructive attack
To go through the motions	To work carelessly
To go to the devil	To fail completely
To go without saying	Clear
To hand in one’s cheeks	To die
To hang up one’s hat	To make oneself comfortable in another person’s home
To have a bash at	To attempt something for the first time
To have a hollow leg	To have a large appetite
To have a memory like a sieve	To have a faint memory
To have a monkey on one’s back	To be addicted to narcotic drug
To have bats in one’s belfry	To have crazy ideas , to be very peculiar or foolish
To have brush with	To have a slight encounter
To have cold feet	To be reluctant
To have one’s heart in one’s boots	To be deeply depressed
To have the floor	To make speech
To have the sun in one’s eye	To drink
To hit the nail on the head	To guess right
to hoist with one’s own petard	To be caught in ones own trap
To hold a brief for	To defend someone
To hold a candle to	To be nearly as good as someone in his/her absence
To hold something in leash	To restrain
to imitate to go ape over	To be extremely enthusiastic over
To keep one’s head above eater	To keep out of debt
To keep the ball rolling	To maintain progress
To keep the pot boiling	Keep the controversy alive
To kick against the pricks	To hurt oneself by useless resistance
To kick up a row	To make great noise and fuss
To kill the fatted calf	To celebrate especially at a prodigal’s return
To knock the bottom out	To make a scheme
To know (somebody) off his pedestal	To show that he is no longer highly regarded
To lay someone under tribute	To impose tax on somebody
To lead one by the nose	To cause to follow blindly
To lead others up the garden	To deceive others
To leap in the dark	Careless action
To leas astray	To misguide
To let one’s hair down	To behave informally
To let the bygones be bygones	Ignore the past
To live by one’s wits	To get money by ingenious and irregular methods not necessarily honest
To live fast	To lead a life of dissipation
To live in clover	To live in great comfort and luxury
To look down one’s nose at	To regard with half-hidden displeasure or contempt
To look sharp	To be quick
To loose one’s head	To become confused and over exited
To Make A Long Story Short:	Something someone would say during a long and boring story in order to keep his/her audience from losing attention. Usually the story isn't shortened.
To make a pile	To make a fortune
To make a shot	To make a guess
To make no bones about something	To do or say a thing openly if it is unpleasant
To make one’s bow	To appear first time in publically
To make the grade	To come out successful