Dialy Life Idioms
- In good time:
You are now overage. You must have married in good time.
- For good:
You are a computer engineer aspiring to get Canadian immigration. Do you want to leave Pakistan for good?
- Good wife:
You want to leave for America.But do you think your good wife will allow you.
- Goody:
My grandmother is such a goody that she equally loves all of us.
- Logger head:
Shuja is such a logger head that mostly he is behind his prayers.
- Logomachy:
The Pakistan Information Minister Qamar Zamn Qaira has no equal in logomachy and beating about the bush.
- Madcap:
Bal Thakeray is such a madcap that he won't listen to the Muslim or the government.
- Microcosm:
The microcosm of this long discussion is that Mr.Latif must marry Miss Latifa.
- Macrocosm:
The whole macracosm of the discussion can be summed up in two words...Leave smoking.
- Magnate:
Pir pigara is thought to be a magnate of his community.
- Make water:
I was feeling awful to make water but the driver did not stop the coach.
- Make piece:
My father Mr. Saddique was such a make peace that he always went to patch up the disputing parties.
- Mammon:
Only a mammon can object to people's acts of spending on religious activities.
- Be your own man:
Never try to raise personal questions to this stranger.Please be your own man.
- Malingerer:
Shuja is such a malingerer that he always shirks work by making lame excuses.
- Mare's nest:
With the invention of computer many things like fax, type writer etc.have been reduced to a mere mare's nest.
- Measure for measure:
He abuse me and I gave him a fist...Measure for measure.
- Happy medium:
Neither go so fast nor very slow...but...a happy medium.
- Speed merchant:
All passengers were remembering Allah in full devotion as the driver
was speeding dangerously around the zig zag road...That speed merchant.
- Merry an drew:
Sohail Ahmad is a big merry an drew, sharp at wit and powerful humor.
- Milk livered:
Waseem Abbas, a powerful young man was looking strange playing the role of a milk-livered businessman in his last drama.
- Milk score:
The milk-score for the last month was 32 according to the milkman but it was 30 litre according to me.
- Speak one's mind:
At last, Chattha spoke his mind clearly and told me that he wanted to marry sadaf.
- Mind thewire:
Mind the wire, Lest you should get an electric shock.
- Mind you:
Mind you...I can't help you, please ask some one else.
- Mocking stock / Laughing stock:
All was the only fat boy in the class, only to be a laughing stock.
- Mumble news:
Never tell your secrets to Jaffar. He is a numble news.
- Down-train:
If you travel from Rawalpindi to sialkot, you have to travel by a down-train.
- Up-train:
When you travel from east to ewest, you travel by an up-train.
- Downstream:
It is always easy to travel down stream than to travel upstream.
- Upstream:
We had to swim upstream, so, we got tired very soon.
- Downright:
Mr. Cheema is downright an educationist.
- Downcast:
Losing the game, the players are downcast now a days.
- Downhill:
It is easy to travel downhill as to swim downstream.
- Uphill:
Going uphill, we breathed so fast as if we were losing our breath.
- Downstairs:
As I went downstairs, I noticed somebody sleeping in the basement.
- Upstairs:
On basant day, we went upstairs and enjoyed the kite flying scenes.
- Golden numbers(1 to 19):
In the civilized world, the number from 1 to 19 are thought to be the golden numbers.
- Golden rule:
It is a golden rule that we must keep our promise of giving and taking.
- Good-for-nothing:
Shams is such a good for nothing fellow that he is aways wasting time in petty pursuits.
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