Category: English (Precis and Composition)

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-H/I”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Hang one’s head:
(To look ashamed or embarrassed) – we all hung our heads when our team was last in the competition.

Hard and fast:
(Strict) – There are some hard and fast rules in every walk of life, and we must follow them.

Have a bone to pick:
(Have a cause of complaint) – I’ve a bone to pick with you about your behaviour yesterday.

Have one’s back to the wall:
(To be in a very difficult or desperate situation) – He certainly has his back to the wall as he has lost his job and cannot find another one.

Head or tail:
(Any sense) – I could not make head or tail of his account of the accident.

High and Dry:
(out of water; in a dry place; safe) – Just where the eastern curve begins stands Kingscliff, a cluster of white cottages, fronted by a white beach, whereon some half-dozen of stout fishing-smacks are hauled up high and dry.

English Grammar: Idioms And Phrases (“Set-G”) | for CSS, PMS, PCS, NTS

Generation gap
(The difference between the attitudes of young and old people) – The generation gap often causes young boys and girls run away from home.

Get off the track
(Be diverted from the main subject of discussion) Let’s not get off the track. We’re talking about films, and not TV programmes.

Get on one’s nerves
(Annoy one to the extent of causing nervous irritation) – The constant howling of that dog gets on my nerves.

Get the better of
(Overcome, defeat, win) – My wife always gets the better of our quarrels.

Get to the bottom of
(To discover the explanation of the real facts of (a mystery etc.) – I’ll get to the bottom this affair if it takes me a year!