IMPORTANT IDIOMS & PHRASES START WITH 'B'

IMPORTANT IDIOMS & PHRASES START WITH 'A'

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