Better Your English Expressions

85. butter sbd up (u…nfd cln ug]{ )
86. buy time (to delay sth intentionally)
87. by and by (slowly& gradually)
88. call sbd names (to call sbd by insulting names)
89. call by (to visit sbd while on the way)
90. open a can of worms (to create a very complicated problem)
91. canny (very wise/intelligent.etc)
92. stand down (to resign from a position)
93. still waters run deep(a calm person can be dangerously violent)
94. on one’s toe (ready for action)
95. tonic water (mineral water)
96. touch upon (tell briefly)
97. on the wane (gradually decreasing)
98. like water  (in great quantities
99.  much water has flowed under the bridge (many things have happened since the last event)
100. at one’s last gasp
101. at somebody’s earliest convenience
102. at stake (at risk)
103. at the eleventh hour
104. at times
105. back out (to withdraw from an agreement)
106. backroom boys(the scientists/engineers/teachers/etc who have gr8 roles but do not come to the public)
107.  back the wrong horse(2 support one that loses)
108. back to square one
109. back up
110. badly off (having very little money)
111. be all and end all
112. be born yesterday (be very ignorant/inexperienced)
113. be in one’s good books
114. be in the same boat (work under the same boss)
115. be over head and ears (in debt)
116. bear down
117. bear with (tolerate)
118. bear with (have patient )
119. beat about the bush
120. beat the clock(to do things ere time)
121. beatitudes (gr8 happiness)
122. beauty sleep (sleep before midnight)
123. before long (soon)
124. beggars can’t be choosers
125. behind closed doors
126. behind one’s back
127. behind the curtain
128. bell the cat
129. below the mark (below standard)
130. bend one’s knee
131. benefit of doubt
132. be written all over sbd’s face(obvious esp guilt on one’s face)
133. better half
134. between the cup and the lip
135. between the devil and the deep blue sea( in gr8 trouble/Hobson’s choice)
136. bite the dust (be defeated)
137. bill and coo (of lovers kiss & talk lovingly)
138. bit by bit
139. bite the bullet (accept the unpleasant)
140. black diamond (coal)
141. blind drunk (very drunk)
142. blood and iron
143. blood bath (massacre)
144. blood curdling (filling with horror/fright)
145. blood lust (desire to kill)
146. blood money (;…kf/L)
147. bloomer (a serious mistake)
148. blooper (an embarrassing public mistake)
149. blow hot & cold (keep on changing opinions)
150. blow one’s own trumpet (self praise)
151. blow up
152. bob up (to come to the surface suddenly)
153. bogeyman (an evil spirit that haunts children)
154. boiling hot (very hot)
155. a bolt from the blue
156. bone up on sth (to study very hard)
157. booby prize (a prize to insult sbd for losing a contest)
158. boozing (drinking wine excessively)
159. born on the wrong side of the blanket
160. born with a silver spoon
161. boss-eyed (blind in one eye)
162. bowing acquaintance
163. boys will be boys (men are at times silly
164. breadwinner
165. break down
166. break into
167. break loose
168. break the bank (to win /lose more money than and there is in a bank)
169. break under
170. break up
171. breakthrough
172. breathe one’s last
173. bring about (a change)
174. bring home the bacon (to achieve sth gr8)