What is "Idioms" - "Idioms" are phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual word.

List of Idioms beginning with A
A big cheese	an important or a powerful person in a group or family
A bird's eye view	a view from a very high place which allows you to see a large area
A bone of contention	something that people argue for a long time
A cock and a bull story	a story or an explanation which is obviously not true.
At the crack of the dawn	very early in morning
A cuckoo in the nest	someone in a group of people but not liked by them.
A litmus test	a method which clearly proves something
As the crow flies	measuring distance between two places in a straight line.
A dead letter	an argument or law not followed by anyone.
At the drop of the hat	you do something easily and without any preparation
An early bird	someone who gets early in the morning
An educated guess	a guess which was likely to get corrected
At the eleventh hour	be too late.
A queer fish	a strange person
A wakeup call	an event done to warn someone
A worm's eye view	having very little knowledge about something
A witch hunt	an attempt to find and punish those who have options that are believed to be dangerous
At the heels of	to follow someone
A dish fit for Gods	something of very high quality
A game of two equal halves	a sudden change in circumstances
Afraid of one's own shadow	to become easily frightened
Against the clock	to be in a hurry to do something before a particular time
Air one's dirty laundry	to make public something embarrassing that should be kept secret.
All systems go	everything is ready.
An arm and a leg	a large amount of money
Appear out of now here	to appear suddenly without warning.
Apple of someone's eye	someone loved very much.
Ask for the moon	to ask for too much.
Asleep at the switch	not to be alert on opportunity
At sixes and sevens	to be lost and bewildered
At someone's beck and call	to be always ready to serve
At the bottom of the ladder	at the lowest level
A house of cards	a poor plan
At an arm's length	to keep at a distance
At sixes and sevens	in disorder
A boon in disguise	a benefit in loss
A bull in a China shop	an awkward person
A red letter day	an important day
A nine days wonder	pleasure for a short time
A bit under the weather	falling illTOPTOP
List of Idioms beginning with B
Bad blood	feelings of hate between two families
Be a weight off your shoulders	When something is a weight off your shoulders, you are happy that you do not have to worry about it or feel responsible for what it was anymore.
Bend your ears	to talk to someone for a very long time about something boring
Bite your tongue	to stop yourself from saying something because it would be better not to
Black and blue	full of bruises
Blue blood	belonging to high social class
Be above board	to be honest and legal
Be bouncing off the walls	excited and full of nervous energy
Bow and scrap	try too hard to please someone in a position of authority
Brass monkey weather	extremely cold weather
Be tailor made	to be completely suitable for someone.
Break the ice	to make more comfort or relaxed with a person whom you have not met earlier, to break the silence
Be as clear as mud	to be impossible to understand
Be on cloud nine	be very happy
Between the devil and deep blue sea	a type of situation where you must choose between two equally unpleasant situations
Be in the doldrums	not very successful or nothing new is taking place
Beat the drum	to speak eagerly about something you support
Be on the edge	to be nervous or worried about something
Be in seventh heaven	extremely happy
Be at each other's throat	two persons arguing angrily
Batten down the hatches	to prepare for trouble
Back the wrong horse	to support someone weak
Back to square one	to reach again to the starting point
Back to the salt mines	back to something that you don't want to do
Ball of fire	active and energetic
Beat one's head against the wall	to try to do something that is hopeless
Bark up the wrong tree	to make a wrong assumption
Batten down the hatches	prepare for difficult times
Beat one's brain out	to work hard
Begin to see the light	to begin to understand
Behind closed doors	done in secret
Bet on the wrong horse	to misread the future
Bent on doing	to be determined to do something
Bite off more than one can chew	to do more than one's ability
Bite the bullet	to face a difficult situation bravely
Bitter pill to swallow	an unpleasant fact that must be accepted
Black sheep of the family	worst member
Blessing in disguise	something that turns out to be good which earlier appeared to be wrong
Blind leading the blind	someone who does not understand something but tries to explain it to other
Blow one's own horn	to praise one
Blow someone's mind	excite someone
Bone of contention	subject matter of the fight
Bring home the bacon	to earn money to live
Blue in the face	exhausted and speechless
Break the back of	reduce the power of something
Burn a hole in one's pocket	to spend money quickly
Burn the midnight oil	to study till late of night
Bushman's holiday	a holiday where you spend doing same thing as you did at working days
Button's one lip	to keep quite
Break a leg	to wish good luckTOP
List of Idioms beginning with C
Carrot and sticks	You use both awards as well as punishments to make someone do something.
Cloak and dragger	when people behave in a very secret manner
Cards are stacked against	luck is against you
Crack a book	to open book to study
Cross a bridge before one comes to it	worry about the future in advance
Carry coals to new castle	to take something to a place or a person that has a lot of that thing already
Cast in the same mould	to be very similar
Change horses in midstream	to change plans
Cap it all	to finish
Cried with eyes out	cried a lot
Carry the can	If you carry the can, you take the blame for something, even though you didn't do it or are only partly at fault.
Cast a long shadow	Something or someone that casts a long shadow has considerable influence on other people or events.
Cat and dog life	If people lead a cat and dog life, they are always arguing.TOP