English Idiomatic Expressions-2

78. bring to light
79. bring to light
80. bring to mind
81. brush up (to renew)
82. build castles in the air
83. bump into sbd (meet sbd by chance)
84. bunkum (sheer nonsense)
85. burn the candle at both ends
86. burst into tears
87. bury the hatchet (to end dispute)
88. by a long way
89. by and  by
90. by and large
91. by degrees (gradually)
92. by dint of
93. by hook or by crook
94. by leaps and bounds
95. by the by (incidentally)
96. by the skin of one’s teeth
97. by the way
98. by word of mouth
99. By/from all accounts (from all reports)
100. call bad names
101. call for
102. call in
103. call on
104.  call sbd to accounts (call sbd accountable for sth)
105. call upon (request)
106. capital error (blunder)
107. carry coal to Newcastle
108. carry the day (to win)
109. castaway
110. cast down
111. cat and dog life
112. catch sight of
113. catch somebody by their pants
114. catch-22 situation (a very diff situation)
115. Chapter and verse (the exact details)
116. chew the cud
117. chicken-hearted
118. child’s play
119. chuck out (dismiss)
120. clay brained (stupid)
121. close an account with
122. cock and bull’s story
123. come about
124. come across
125. come out
126. come round  (to recover)
127. come to anchor  (ship/events)
128. come to hand  (to receive)
129. contempt of court
130. cook the book( to alter facts to hide an illegal act)
131. cost dear (dx+uf k8gf’ 
132. count sheep (to try to go asleep )
133. counterblast (a powerful reply to sth)
134. correspond to
135. count upon  (depend on)
136. court of inquiry
137. crop up
138. cry against
139. cry down
140. cupboard love (false love)
141. curry favour
142. cut a dash
143. cut a sorry figure
144. Cross my heart
145. crop up (to appear sth suddenly)
146. creep  (a yes-man)
147. cramp (to delay to sth’s development)
148. crack down (to try harder to stop an illegal task)
149.  come along (to arrive at the right time)
150.  come by (to obtain sth by efforts: Jobs are hard to come by these days)
151.  chunk sth off/sbd out of (to force sbd to leave a place)
152. come betⁿ sbd and sbd (to interfere with sbds)
153.  jump /leap to conclusion (to  come to a hasty conclusions)
154.  conjure away (to make sth disappear as if by magic)
155. Connive
156. Darken sbd’s door (to visit someone)
157. day in day out
158. dead against
159. dead drunk  (completely drunk)
160. deaf nut  (a nut without kernel)
161. die hard  (die with gr8 struggle/fanatic)
162. die in harness
163. dispense with
164. dissolved in tears  (wept bitterly)
165. do as Romans do
166. do away with something
167. dot the I ’s and cross the T’s
168. dog-cheap (very cheap)
169. Don’t you believe it (plz don’t believe it)
170. donkey’s years  (after along time)
171. dreamland  (the final goal)
172. dry facts  (uninteresting ideas)