Idiomatic Expressions Continued-1

88. early and late  (at all times)
89. easy come, easy go
90. easy money  (bribe)
91. eat a humble pie (be humiliated/apologize)
92. eat dirt
93. elixir of life
94. empty compliment
95. enter upon  (to engage)
96. epoch-making  (remarkable)
97. escape literature (a light reading)
98. eye for an eye  (retaliation)
99. eyewash  (bunkum)
100. face the music (face the impacts)
101. fair sex  (woman folks)
102. fair-weather friends
103. fall behind
104. fall by the wayside
105. fall flat  (of no effect)
106. fan the flames  (make intense)
107. far-reaching 
108. fatal blow
109. feel handsome  (to feel well)
110. feel the pulse (to find one’s secret)
111. fifth columnist (traitor)
112. first cause
113. fish in the troubled water
114. fit like a glove  (exactly)
115. flare-up
116. fly high
117. for good
118. for good and all
119. fountain of justice (full of justice)
120. fourth estate  (the press)
121. from hand to mouth  ( poverty)
122. jail-bird (a prisoner of many times)
123. get into hot water
124. Ghostly weapons  (religious arguments)
125. gift of the gab (a talent of talking)
126. give a damn to sth(not to care at all)
127. give effect to
128. give in  (to yield to)
129. give sbd the benefit of doubt
130. give the devil his due (give the right to everyone)
131. give vent to sth (to express sth freely)
132. go awry
133. go rack and ruin
134. go through  (read/examine/experience)
135. go to the devil
136. go to the dogs
137. grade up
138. grease one’s palm (to bribe)
139. green eye  (jealousy)
140. gutter press (vulgar press)
141. hammer an idea into one’s head
142. hand to mouth
143. hanker after
144. hanky panky (of dishonest intention)
145. hard and fast   (definite)
146. hard cash
147. hard nut to crack  (difficult convince)
148. hark back  (to revert)
149. have advantage over
150. have two strings in one bow
151. high explosive  (very irritable man)
152. high time (time of action)
153. hold in contempt
154. hold no account
155. house of ill fame  (a brothel)
156. Hows and whys
157. hue and cry
158. I bet (I’m certain)
159. in a nutshell
160. in all conscience
161. in black and white
162. in cold blood (deliberately)
163. in common with
164. in fits and stars
165. in fog (puzzled)
166. 79.in all/good conscience (honestly/fairly: you can’t in all conscience call it an act of honour
167. in full bloom (in full growth)
168. in good faith (with sincerity)
169. 82. ill-fated (unfortunate)
170. 83. in the interim (during the time of some rest of sth)
171. 84.in jeopardy (at risk)
172. in letter and spirit
173. in lump sum
174. 87. in microcosm (on a small scale)
175. in one’s birthday suit (without clothes on)
176. in so far as  (to the extent of)
177. in the aftermath
178. in the clouds
179. in the dead of winter
180. in the lap of luxury
181. in the limelight
182. in the making (in the process of developing)
183. in the meantime
184. in the mind’s eye  (imagination)
185. in the twinkling of an eye
186. in the wake of (  in the aftermath of sth)
187. in view of something