Idiomatic expressions-1

1. bring to light
2. bring to mind
3. brush up (to renew)
4. build castles in the air
5. bump into sbd (meet sbd by chance)
6. bunkum (sheer nonsense)
7. burn the candle at both ends
8. burst into tears
9. bury the hatchet (to end dispute)
10. by a long way
11. by and  by
12. by and large
13. by degrees (gradually)
14. by dint of
15. by hook or by crook
16. by leaps and bounds
17. by the by (incidentally)
18. by the skin of one’s teeth
19. by the way
20. by word of mouth
21. By/from all accounts (from all reports)
22. call bad names
23. call for
24. call in
25. call on

27.        call sbd to accounts (call sbd accountable for sth)

28. call upon (request)
29. capital error (blunder)
30. carry coal to Newcastle
31. carry the day (to win)
32. cast away
33. cast down
34. cat and dog life
35. catch sight of
36. catch somebody by their pants
37. catch-22 situation (a very diff situation)
38. Chapter and verse (the exact details)
39. chew the cud
40. chicken hearted
41. child’s play
42. chuck out (dismiss)
43. clay brained (stupid)
44. close an account with
45. cock and bull’s story
46. come about
47. come across
48. come out
49. come round  (to recover)
50. come to anchor  (ship/events)
51. come to hand  (to receive)
52. contempt of court

53.        cook the book( to alter facts to hide an illegal act)

54. cost dear (dx+uf k8gf’ 
55. count sheep (to try to go asleep )
56. counter blast (a powerful reply to sth)
57. correspond to
58. count upon  (depend on)
59. court of inquiry
60. crop up
61. cry against
62. cry down
63. cupboard love (false love)
64. curry favour
65. cut a dash
66. cut a sorry figure
67. Cross my heart
68. crop up (to appear sth suddenly)
69. creep  (a yes-man)
70. cramp (to delay to sth’s development)

71.        crack down (to try harder to stop an illegal task)

72.        come along (to arrive at the right time)

73.        come by (to obtain sth by efforts: Jobs are hard to come by these days)

74.        chunk sth off/sbd out of (to force sbd to leave a place)

75.        come betⁿ sbd and sbd (to interfere with sbds)

76.        jump /leap to conclusion (to  come to a hasty conclusions)

77.        conjure away (to make sth disappear as if by magic)

78. Connive
79. Darken sbd’s door (to visit someone)
80. day in day out
81. dead against
82. dead drunk  (completely drunk)
83. deaf nut  (a nut without kernel
84. die hard  (die with gr8 struggle/fanatic)
85. die in harness
86. dispense with
87. dissolved in tears  (wept bitterly)
88. do as Romans do
89. do away with something
90. dot the I ’s and cross the T’s
91. dog cheap (very cheap)
92. Don’t you believe it (plz don’t believe it)
93. donkey’s years  (after along time)
94. dreamland  (the final goal)
95. dry facts  (uninteresting ideas)