Idioms

Name: -------------------------------------------------------Composition

Test: English

Q.1 Write down any 10 of the following expressions with their

meanings:
(a) To cudgel ones brains

(b) To fight like Kilkenny cats

(c) Cast pearls before swine

(d) A curtain lecture

(e) To cross the Rubicon

(f) Cast to the winds

(g) To be in a tight corner

(h) Under the cloud

(i) A wild goose chase

(j) Blood and iron

(k) In cold blood

(l) A blue stocking

(m) By fits and starts

(n) To bring grist to the mill

(o) To break the ice

(p) To walk on the ice

(q) Once in a blue moon

(r) Besetting sin

(s) To have a bee in ones bonnet

(t) At a white heat