This document contains a list of idioms and their meanings in 3 sentences or less: 1. Idioms such as "Demogauge – A leader in democracy", "Omnipresent - Ubiquitous – Air", and "Omniscient – Who knows everything" describe concepts related to leadership, presence, and knowledge. 2. Other idioms provide character descriptions like "Hypochondriac – Always worried about health" and beliefs like "Don’t believe in religion – Pagan." 3. The rest of the idioms cover a wide range of topics from actions like "Put your best foot forward --- Best performance" to challenges like "To flog a

1. Demogauge – A leader in democracy

2. Omnipresent - Ubiquitous – Air
Omniscient – Who knows everything

5. Hypochondriac – Always worried about health

6. Immigrant -
Bangledesh

7. Highly Physical Pleasure – Hedonist , Debauch

8. Don’t believe in religion – Pagan.

10. Matricide, Fratricide, Uxoricide
Loquacious/ Garrulous – Talkative.
Anto-- Dystopia

12. Put your best foot forward --- Best performance
Curiosity killed the cat – Over curious on other people affairs
Cost an arm and leg – Very costly
Pull a rabbit out of your hat – Doing Surprising
Achilles’ heal – Weak / Vulnerable point
Bite off more than you can chew – Over occupied with work
Feeling blue – Sad
A shot in the arm – To get encouragement suddenly
To take the bull by the horns – Facing difficulty boldly
To chew the cud – Thinking deeply

13. Save for a rainy day
Let the cat out of the bag – Disclosing the secret
Cut from the same cloth –To be similar
Chip of old block – Baap ka beta
Paying through the nose – Paying excessively
Casting pearls before swine - Rewarding undeserving
At daggers drawn – 36 ka akhra
To flog a dead horse – Waste energy in a lost cause
To make both ends meet – Hen to mouth living – Earning just enough
money to live on
To put the cart before the horse – Doing the things wrong way

14. To take the things lying down – Showing no resistance
Cook and Bull story – Made up story not to believe
Cry for the moon – Ask for impossible
Have a card up one’s sleeve – Secret plan in reserve
To call a spade a spade – Frank and Truthful
To break Ice –Breaking silence
To smell a rat – Something fishy
Read between the lines – Understand the hidden meanings
Lock Stock and Barrel – Completely (I own the shop lock stock and
barrel)
To die in harness – Work till the last day of life.

15. To plough a lonely furrow -- Working without anyone’s help
Daredevil – Gutsy
Tooth and nail – With one’s all power
Leaps and bounds -- Rapidly
Between the devil and deep blue sea – between 2 dangers
Close shave – Narrow escape
Build castles in the air – Make Imaginary schemes
Turn the tables - To reverse the situation
Snake in the grass – Hidden enemy
Hit the nail on the head – Do or say the exact thing