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List of Idioms beginning with B
Bad blood- feelings of hate between two families
Be a weight off your shoulders - When something is a weight off your shoulders, you are happy that you do not have to worry about it or feel responsible for what it was anymore
Bend your ears- to talk to someone for a very long time about something boring
Bite your tongue- to stop yourself from saying something because it would be better not to
Black and blue- full of bruises
Blue blood- belonging to high social class
Be above board- to be honest and legal
Be bouncing off the walls- excited and full of nervous energy
Bow and scrap- try too hard to please someone in a position of authority
Brass monkey weather- extremely cold weather
Be tailor made- to be completely suitable for someone
Break the ice- to make more comfort or relaxed with a person whom you have not met early, to break the silence
Be as clear as mud- to be impossible to understand
Be on cloud nine- be very happy
Between the devil and deep blue sea- a type of situation where you must choose between two equally unpleasant situation
Be in the doldrums- not very successful or nothing new is taking place
Beat the drum- to speak eagerly about something you support
Be on the edge- to be nervous or worried about something
Be in seventh heaven- extremely happy
Be at each other's throat- two persons arguing angry
Batten down the hatches- to prepare for trouble
Back the wrong horse- to support someone weak
Back to square one- to reach again to the starting point
Back to the salt mines- back to something that you don't want to do
Ball of fire- active and energetic
Beat one's head against the wall- to try to do something that is hopeless
Bark up the wrong tree- to make a wrong assumption
Batten down the hatches- prepare for difficult times
Beat one's brain out- to work hard
Begin to see the light- to begin to understand
Behind closed doors- done in secret
Bet on the wrong horse- to misread the future
Bent on doing- to be determined to do something
Bite off more than one can chew- to do more than one's ability
Bite the bullet- to face a difficult situation bravery
Bitter pill to swallow- an unpleasant fact that must be accepted
Black sheep of the family- worst member
Blessing in disguise- something that turns out to be good which earlier appeared to be wrong
Blind leading the blind- someone who does not understand something but tries to explain it to other
Blow one's own horn- to praise one
Blow someone's mind- excite someone
Bone of contention- subject matter of the fight
Bring home the bacon- to earn money to live
Blue in the face- exhausted and speechless
Break the back of- reduce the power of something
Burn a hole in one's pocket- to spend money quickly
Burn the midnight oil- to study till late of night
Bushman's holiday- a holiday where you spend doing same thing as you did at working days
Button's one lip- to keep quite
Break a leg- to wish good luck
Click on each letter of the alphabet to get the list of the idioms with an explanation of each.
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