Common Idioms And Phrases For LSAT

Idioms and Meanings

1. Ruffle Feathers: Annoy someone
2. To get cold feet: to get Afraid
3. No stone unturned: Using all available means
4. In a nutshell: Simple and Brief
5. Knit the brow: To frown
6. to pour oil on troubled water: to rectify the matter
7. Hitting below the belt: unfair strike
8. Hand in glove: close collusion
9. Beating the air: Making useless efforts
10. A dime a dozen: Very common
11. Hit the road: Begin the journey
12. Stand to one’s guns: Refuse to change something
13. Playing fast and loose: Behaving irresponsibly
14. To kill two birds with one stone’– to solve two problems at once
15. Break a leg’ – good luck
16. Flying pigs: Impossible to happen
17. The elephant in the room: The main/ obvious problem
18. Piece of cake: Something very easy
19. Hit the books: to study
20. Break-even: No gain No Loss
21. Butter up: Flattering someone
22. Once in a blue moon: Very rarely
23. Nip in the bud: Destroy at the initial stage
24. Settling the dust: Calming the situation
25. Being as cold as stone: Being rude or unemotional
26. Castle in the sky: Impossible/ Daydream
27. Wry face: Disappointed look
28. The tough nut to crack: A difficult problem
29. To burn the midnight oil: To work up to late hours
30. Flash in the pan.: One that promises great success but fails
31. Chicken hearted: Cowardly
32. Good wine needs no bush: Advertising is not needed for good things.
33. Red-letter day: a pleasantly noteworthy or memorable day
34. Raining cats and dogs: raining very heavily
35. To have feet of clay: full of faults
36. Rhyme or reason: Rational cause
37. Cock and bull story: the untrue story
38. A bolt from the blue: Unexpected
39. Whole nine yards: All of it
40. Tight Spot: Difficult situation