| List of Idioms beginning with M
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| Make castles in the air | plans or hopes that have very little chances of happening. |
| Make a bee line for | to go directly towards something. |
| Make ones bed and lie on it | to be responsible for what you have done and accept the results |
| Meet ones waterloo | meet ones final end
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| Monkey around | to waste time here and there
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| My hands are full | I am busy
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| Make a dry face | show disappointment |
| Make a monkey of someone | If you make a monkey of someone, you make them look foolish
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| Man of his word | A man of his word is a person who does what he says and keeps his Promises
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| Many moons ago | A very long time ago.TOP
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| List of Idioms beginning with N
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| Nobody's fool | one who can take care of himself
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| not having a leg to stand for | not having proof
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| Nevernever land | ideal best place.
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| No love lost between | dislike |
| Needle in a haystack | If trying to find something is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it means that it is very difficult, if not impossible to find among everything around it
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| New brush sweeps clean | 'A new brush sweeps clean' means that someone with a new perspective can make great changes. However, the full version is 'a new brush sweeps clean, but an old brush knows the corners', which warns that experience is also a valuable thing
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| No smoke without fire | This idiom means that when people suspect something, there isNormally a good reason for the suspicion, even if there is no concrete evidence. ('Where's there's smoke, there's fire' is also used.)TOP
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| List of Idioms beginning with O
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| Once in a blue moon | very rarely |
| On the bandwagon | doing something because others are also doing it |
| Open Pandora's box | to discover more problems |
| Over the moon | being too happy |
| On its last legs | in a bad condition and will not last long |
| Old flames die hard | It's very difficult to forget old things
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| On pins and needles | If you are on pins and needles, you are very worried about something
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| On the carpet | When you are called to the bosses office (since supposedly, they are the only ones who have carpet) and its definitely not for a good reason, i.e., you are in trouble, something has not gone according to plan and either maybe you are responsible and/or have some explaining to do
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| On the hook | If someone is on the hook, they are responsible for something.
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| Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches | This means that it's hard to know how much someone else is suffering.TOP
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