Idioms List - محاورے
1240 Famous Idioms with their Urdu Meanings and Examples
Quit cold turkey
to stop doing something abruptly; to cease an activity, usually a vice
Benjamin smoked for about twenty years and then quit cold turkey when he started coughing a lot.
Quite a few/number
a lot; many; more than a couple
We had no idea if any customers would come to our garage sale that rainy day, but quite a few stopped by.
Rack one's brain
try hard to recall
I was racking my brains to remember where I put the washing machine warranty.
Rain cats and dogs
rain heavily
The first literary reference to this idiom appears in Dean Jonathan Swift's Polite Conversation of 1783: " . . . I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. . . ." There was no question that the picnic would be canceled, as it was raining cats and dogs.
Raise cain
make a disturbance; cause trouble
Whenever the cousins would get together, they would drink a lot and raise cain.
Raise eyebrows
cause people to be shocked or surprised
Wearing that mini-skirt to the funeral is really going to raise a lot of eyebrows.
Raise one's hackles
describes someone who has gotten angry; This comes from a time when the tool, a hackle, was used in making flax (medieval days)
Back then, farmers noticed that chickens had a way of raising the feathers on their neck when they were disturbed, looking like the feathers were ruffled by a hackle. Just hearing that shrill woman's voice raises my hackles.
Rake over the coals
to yell at severely; reprimand strongly
Jim was raked over the coals by his boss for sleeping on the job, which is not a good thing for a bus-driver to do.
Rally the troops
to buoy the spirits of any group - This comes from the military, when the superior commands and motivates the troops to continue on
Everyone's energy was low because we had lost the past five games in a row, but the coach brought us out for pizza and tried to rally the troops for the next game.
[Take the] rap on
to take responsibility for; to receive punishment for
Buffy took the rap for breaking the vase, even though it was Jody who did it.
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