User talk:Mrvindu

English Vocabulary, Verbal Phrases and Idioms

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Diaspora

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Pessimistic

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Reel

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Bombshell

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tart up (To dress someone up or make something fancy in a tawdry, garish way: We tarted up the apartment with a pink shag carpet. The dancers tarted themselves up in feathers and sequins.)

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chip off the old block (a person (usually a male) who behaves in the same way as his father or resembles his father. John looks like his father—a real chip off the old block. Bill Jones, Jr., is a chip off the old block. He's a banker just like his father.)

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bottle it (To lose one's nerve, courage, or resolve to undertake something. Primarily heard in UK. I wanted to ask Steve on a date, but I bottled it at the last minute.)

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hold the fort (to take care of a place while someone who is usually there is gone, such as a store or one's home.)

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walk on eggshells (1. to walk very carefully; to take steps gingerly. Since he stumbled and fell against the china cabinet, Bill has been walking on eggshells. 2. to be very diplomatic and inoffensive. I was walking on eggshells trying to explain the remark to her without offending her further.) ---