1-Keep the wolf from the door
Meaning:-a)to have enough money to avoid going hungry.
b)to stop somebody feeling hungry
Usages:-1-The poor have to do hard work to keep the wolf from the door.
2-Thousands put on a daily fight to keep the wolf from the door .
(2)-Break the ice
Meaning:-to say or do something that makes people feel more relaxed, especially at the beginning of a meeting, party, etc.
Usages:-Jim organized a few party games to break the ice when people first arrived.
We should include music the party to break the ice.
3-Null and Void
Meaning:-having no legal force
not valid
Mind Tricks:-Null means having the value zero and void means empty space.
Usages:-The contract was declared null and void.
The policy has been declared to be null and void.
4-To play second fiddle
Meaning:-to be treated as less important than somebody or something
to have a less important position than than somebody or something else
Mind Tricks:-Fiddle means to keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored and want to avoid someone.
Usages:- I am not going to play second fiddle to anyone.
The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
5-Face the music
Meaning:-to accept and deal with criticism or punishment for something you have done
Usages:-The others all ran off, leaving me to face the music.
Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
6-Call a spade a spade
Meaning:-to say exactly what you think without trying to hide your opinion
Mind Tricks:-Spade means an offensive word for a black person. Spade is an offensive word and we should not use word spade for a black person. So according to idiom when we call a spade a spade, we do not hide our opinion.
Usages:-Villagers always call a spade a spade.
Be aware to call a spade a spade.
7-Out of my wits
Meaning:-to make someone very frightened or confused
greatly confused
Mind Tricks:-Wits means ability to think quickly and cleverly.
Usages:-I am out of my wits and therefor cannot find a way to solve the problem
Math subject makes me out of my wits.
8-Jumping down my throat
Meaning:-to react very angrily to somebody
Usages:-Salman is jumping down my throat.
She has been very irritable recently, jumping down my throat every time I open my mouth.
9-For good / For good and all
Meaning:-permanently
Usages:-This time she is leaving for good (permanently leaving).
So many people are leaving country for good.
10-Achilles heel
Meaning:-a weak point or fault in somebody's character, which can be attacked by other
Mind Tricks:-Names after the Greek hero Achilles. When he was a small child, his mother held him below the surface of the river Styx to protect him against any injury. She held him by his heel, which therefore was not touched by the water. Achilles died after being wounded by an arrow in the heel.
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Usages:-
Weak batting order is an Achilles heel of our team.
11-Blow his own trumpet/horn
Meaning:-to tell other people how good and successful you are
Mind Tricks:-Trumpet means to talk about something publicly in a proud or enthusiastic way.
And trumpet is a brass musical instrument.
Usages:-He is always blowing his own trumpet.
12-Cut the Gordian knot
Meaning:-solve a very complex problem in a simple way remove the difficulty
to solve a problem boldly and decisively
Mind Tricks:-Gordian knot means a verydifficult or impossible task or problem.
Origin Of Gordian Knot:-From the legend that Gordius, king of