- By fits and start – Irregularly
- By leaps and bounds – Very Quickly or Rapidly
- Bad blood – Angry feeling or Active enmity
- Burn one’s boat – Leave no means of return
- Blow over – Pass off
- Blue-eyed boys – Favorites
- Bone to pick – Cause of quarrel/ Bone of contention
- Blood running cold – Become very frightened
- Blow one’s own trumpet – To praise oneself
- Bear with – Support / To be patient with some body or something
- Bone of contention – Matter of dispute
- Bird’s eye view – An overview
- Build castle in the air - Daydreaming
- By fair or foul means – In honest or dishonest way
- Birds of same feather – Persons of same character
- Bury the hatchet – To make peace / To stop being unfriendly and become friends
- Break down – To lose control of your feelings and start crying / Could not proceed
- Break up – Disband itself / The breaking up of relationship or association / The division of larger group in smaller fragments
- Bull in a China shop – A clumsy person
- Break the ice – Initiate a talk
- Born with a silver spoon – Born in a rich family
- Bad hats – People of bad character
- Bring the house down – Make the audience applaud enthusiastically
- By the skin of teeth – By the narrowest margin
- Batten down the hatches – Prepare for a difficult situation
- Bear down – To move quickly towards something/someone in a determined or threatening way
- Barking up the wrong tree – Trying to find someone ay wrong place
- Black out – Lost consciousness
- Back to the drawing board – Plan it all over again
- Balloon goes up – The situation turns unpleasant or serious
- Beyond the pale – Outside commonly accepted standards or Unreasonable or unacceptable
- Break in - To train somebody or something in something
- Backseat driver – A person who gives unwanted advice
- Break off – Suddenly stop
- Beat about the bush – Circumlocution / Does not talk specifically / To say everything except the main topic
- Be taken aback – Shocked or surprised
- Beside the mark – Irrelevant / Not to be accurate
- Beggar description – Cannot be described
- Butt in – Interrupt
- Bear in mind - Remember
- Brought up – Introduce for discussion
- Bring about - Cause
- Big draw – Huge attraction
- Be down with – Suffering from
- Button one’s lips – Stop talking
Monday, 28 August 2017
IMPORTANT IDIOMS & PHRASES START WITH 'B'
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