Dhariwal English

Case in point
Definition:
An example that illustrates a point
Example:
Plaing with these toys can be dangerous. For a case in point, look at what happened to our neighbor's child.

===Chalk something up to inexperience
Definition:
To attribute a failure to inexperience and learn from that particular experience.
Example:
Chalk it up to inexperience, I guess, but he made a very poor decision.

===Come clean
Definition:
To be honest and tell the truth.
Example:
She came clean about what she had done.

===Come to terms with
Definition:
To gradually accept a sad situation.
Example:
I think he will come to terms with the death of his wife.

===Come to your attention
Definition:
(Also come to your notice) said when you notice something.
Example:
It has recently come to the workers attention that changes are taking place in the company because of financial problems.

Big wheel
Definition:
A person with a great deal of power or influence, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.
Example:
She's a big wheel at IBM.

===Big deal
Definition:
Something very important, difficult, or of concern.
Example:
It's no big deal if you don't finish.

=== Bite me
Definition:
An expression of discontent, aggravation or anger.
Example:
Why are you shouting like that? Oh, bite me!

===Blessing in desguise
Definition:
A blessing in disguise is said when a misfortune has some unexpected benefits
Example:
His failure to pass the exam was a blessing in disguise. This made him realize the importance of hard work.

===Blow a kiss
Definition:
To kiss one's hand, then blow on the hand in a direction towards the recipient.
Example:
We haven't yet kissed, but she blew me a kiss as the train pulled out of the station. That meant a lot to me

===Call a spade a spade
Definition:
To be truthful about something, even if it is rude or unpleasant.
Example:
Lacy never fears to tell the truth. She calls a spade a spade.

Along the lines
Definition:
In a general direction or manner.
Example:
I was thinking along the lines of a vegetable garden, but I could be persuaded to include some perennials.

===Bag of tricks
Definition:
A set of techniques and methods.
Example:
Why don't you use your bag of tricks to help us solve this problem?

===bottle up
Definition:
(transitive, idiomatic) Kept suppressed and hidden
Example:
Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.

===Be a barrel of laughs
Definition:
Be enjoyable or entertaining.
Example:
This movie is a real barrel of laughs.

=== Behind closed doors
Definition:
In private; in one's private life.
Example:
What you do with your partners behind closed doors is none of my business.

==agree to a statement بیان سے متفق ہونا ۔

==at liberty آزاد ۔ غیر مَصرُوف یا بیکار ۔ مُختار ۔ مَجاز ۔ بے قید و بَند ۔

==preen gage آگے سے گانٹھنا ۔ پَہلے سے قَرارداد کرنا ۔ پَہلے سے قول و قَرار کرنا ۔ پابَند کرنا ۔ مُعاہدہ کرنا ۔

==in situ بَرمَحل ۔ صَحیح حالَت میں ۔ ڈِسٹَرب کیے بَغَیر

==sell down the river دھوکا دینا یا بے وَفائی کَرنا ۔

==sell short کَم وُقعت دینا ۔ کَم قیمَت کا سَمَجھنا ۔

==sweet on دل ہار ۔ کسی پر بہت ہی فدا ۔ عاشق ۔

===hem and haw ابہام اور ہچکچاہٹ کے ساتھ بولنا ۔

===by hand مشینوں کی مَدَد کے بغیر ہاتھوں سے کیا ہُوا ۔ ہاتھ کا ۔ دستی ۔ ہاتھ میں ۔

===by fits and starts گاہ بَگاہ ۔ کبھی کبھی ۔ گاہے گاہے ۔ وَقفوں کے ساتھ ۔

===by all means یقیناً ۔ ہر حال میں

===by hook or by crook کسی نہ کسی طرح ۔ بہر حال ۔ ہر صورت میں ۔

===appeal, application, imploration, petition, plea, در خواست

===imploration منت سماجت

===stay-at-home اقامت پسند ۔ سکونی ۔ خانہ نشین ۔ گھر گھُسنا ۔ عادتاً گھر میں رہنے والا شَخص

===stay put ایک ہی جگہ پر رہنا ۔ جس جگہ رکھ دیا وہیں رہنا

===anticipatory آرزُو مَندانَہ ۔ جِس سے خَواہِش کا اِظہار ہو ۔توقع کا

===anticipator پہلے سے خَیال کَرنے والا ۔ اُمید وار ۔ پیش بَند ۔قبل از وقت سمجھنے والا

===anticipatory pension قبل از وقت پینشن ۔

along the lines
Definition:
(idiomatic) In a general direction or manner.
Example:
I was thinking along the lines of a vegetable garden, but I could be persuaded to include some perennials.

=== bag of wind
Definition:
(idiomatic) A windbag.
Example:

=== last resort
Definition:
(idiomatic) The only remaining, unwanted, option or choice.
Example:
I wouldn't recommend doing surgery on yourself, unless it is a last resort.

===on the cutting room floor
Definition:
(idiomatic) Not included in the finalized version of something; deliberately rejected or unintentionally overlooked.
Example:
The experimental broccoli ice cream flavor was left on the cutting room floor after market research.

====tell tales out of school
Definition:
(idiomatic) To reveal confidential or sensitive information; to gossip.
Example:
1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, ch. 8:
Mr. Washington had seen the gentlemen of honour and fashion over their cups, and perhaps thought that all their sayings and doings were not precisely such as would tend to instruct or edify a young man on his entrance into life; but he wisely chose to tell no tales out of school.
1871, Louisa May Alcott, Little Men, ch. 11:
[T]he boys laughed and nudged one another, for it was evident that some one told tales out of school, else how could he know of the existence of these inconvenient treasures.
1884, Martha Finley, Elsie at Nantucket, ch. 9:
"But now maybe I'm telling tales out of school," he added, with a laugh. "I shouldn't like to get the little girl into trouble."
1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "A Millionaire's Proposal" in Short Stories: 1907-1908:
"Don't blush, Katherine, I am sure Mr. Willoughby won't tell any tales out of school to your old Valleyfield friends."
1997, Stephen King, Desperation, ISBN 9780451188465, (Google preview):
"He wound up in the emergency room three different times, twice in Connecticut and once down here. The first two were drug ODs. I'm not telling tales out of school, because all that's been reported—exhaustively—in the press."
2004 April 5, Peter Bailey, "Reading Material," Time:
Bush's former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, told tales out of school, prompting hot denials—and an investigation of whether he disclosed classified information.

all rights reserved
Definition:
(idiomatic, law) The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.
Example:

=== patience of Job
Definition:
(idiomatic) A great amount of patience.
Example:
From the Bible, James Ch.5 V.11
You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
2004, "Takes two to quango", The Guardian, March 30
The interference ... that LSC staff have had to endure from the department's civil servants would have tried the patience of Job.

===rack one's brain
Definition:
(idiomatic) To struggle to think of or remember something.
Example:
I have been racking my brain all day trying to think of a birthday present for her.

==== ancient history
Definition:
(idiomatic) That which happened a long time ago and not worth discussing any more.
Example:
Who cares if he said those things at the beginning of the year? That's ancient history now.
A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

=== under way
Definition:
(nautical, of a vessel) moving through the water; not anchored, moored, aground, or beached[1].
Example:
2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, BBC Sport:
The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.
2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
Into motion, into its course.
The show finally got under way, just 10 minutes late.‎

f**k the dog
Definition:
(vulgar, uncommon) To make a horrible or catastrophic mistake; to screw the pooch.
Example:
Used other than as an idiom: see f**k,‎ the,‎ dog.

===one another
Definition:
(idiomatic, reciprocal pronoun) Used of a reciprocal relationship among a group of two or more people or things; compare each other.
Example:
The raw recruits helped one another get over the first few days.
Rainy days seemed to follow one another all summer.

=== Daniel come to judgement
Definition:
(idiomatic) One who wisely settles a difficult matter.
Example:

=== trash out
Definition:
(idiomatic) To criticize the person spoken to in a rant.
Example:
1980, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, Glass Houses, Columbia Records
Friday night I crashed your party. / Saturday I said I'm sorry. / Sunday came 'n' [you] trashed me out again.

===Bumf**k, Egypt
Definition:
(vulgar, idiomatic, US, originally military slang) The middle of nowhere.
Example:
1991, William H. Labarge, Hornet's Nest, p. 96
One screwup and he could be splitting rocks on a chain gang somewhere in Bumf**k, Egypt.

dyed in the wool
Definition:

Example:
simple past tense and past participle of dye in the wool

===couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Definition:
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang, idiomatic) Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent.
Example:
2006, G. C. Lemans, Chantier: A tribute to the world's engineers and their partners in life, page 60,
“Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. That's what you get when you assign engineering jobs to non-engineers. […] ”

=== in recent memory
Definition:
(idiomatic) in living memory
Example:

==== well and truly
Definition:
(idiomatic) utterly; completely; without doubt
Example:
Many people remained in their hiding places until the war was well and truly over.

===carry one's weight
Definition:
(idiomatic) To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.
Example:
I think our jobs here are secure as long as we each carry our weight.

give the royal treatment
Definition:
(idiomatic) To treat (someone) extremely well
Example:
2006, Michael Eliot Mehler, Nice Jewish Felon - Page 113
We would spit in the food of difficult customers and give the royal treatment to those who treated us with respect. I could never comprehend how a patron could treat somebody they entrusted with their food with anything but the utmost of esteem...

===catch the eye
Definition:
(idiomatic) To attract the attention
Example:
2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”[1], BBC:
Lawrie Wilson caught the eye with a surging run, although his strike was blocked, while Bostwick's powerful low strike drew an excellent save from Krul.

=== slap in the face
Definition:
(figuratively, idiomatic) Something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense; an insult, rebuke, or rebuff.
Example:
Used other than as an idiom: see slap,‎ in,‎ the,‎ face.
That Joan's ex-boyfriend turned up to the school dance with Mary was a slap in the face for Joan, and now the girls are no longer best friends.

=== Pain in the neck
Definition:
An annoyance.
Example:
The teacher's last assignment is really a pain in the neck.

===first off
Definition:
(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.
Example:

===protract دراز کرنا ۔ بڑھانا ۔ دیر لگانا یا وقت میں طول دینا ۔ مدت کو لمبا کرنا ۔ خلا میں بڑھانا ۔ طویل کرنا . لمبا کرنا . دراز کرنا . دیر کرنا

===protracted meeting طویل اجلاس ۔ وقفے وقفے کے بعد دیر تک جاری رہنے والا اجلاس ۔

===propose مشورہ دینا ۔ منصوبہ بنانا ۔ تجویز کرنا ۔ شادی کی خواہش کرنا ۔ پیش کرنا ۔ تجویز کرنا . راہے دینا . تحریک کرنا . نامزد کرنا

===in the soup مُشکِل میں ۔ دشواری میں ۔

===keep open house مُلاقاتیوں کی مدارت کے لیے ہمہ وقت تیار رہنا ۔

===high and low امیر غریب

===high spot قابلِ یاد ۔ یادگاری

===high and low everywhere ہرجگہ

===high tea پُرتکلّف چائے ۔ عام طور پر سہ پہر کو یا سرِ شام کی چائے ۔

===in a word مُختَصِراً ۔ قِصَّہ مُختَصِر ۔