Phrases-5

समान स्वभाव के लोग - Birds of a feather

Birds of a feather tend to flock together.

बदनाम आदमी - Black sheep

Rohan is the black sheep of the family.

जी जान से - Body and soul

He gave himself body and soul to the pursuit of learning.

जिगरी दोस्त - Bosom friend

Ramesh and Rakesh are bosom friend

छुपने के स्थान से बाहर आना - Break cover

The enemy resumed heavy firing as the soldier broke cover.

राज खोलना - Bring to light

The C.I.D. brought to light a hideous conspiracy to assassnate the police chief.

दिन दहाड़े - Broad daylight

Yesterday, the bank near our house was robbed in broad daylight.

विचारों में मग्न रहना - Brown study

Shyam is in the habit of getting into brown study.

आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता - By and By

By and by people began to come into the lecture hall.

बात-बात में यूँ ही - By the way

By the way, are you going to church ?

साफ-साफ कह देना - Call a spade a spade

I am not rude but at the same time I don't hesitate to call a spade a spade.

मौत की सजा - Capital punishment

The murderer was awarded Capital punishment.

इंतजार में रहना - Cast about for

He will cast about for an opportunity to take revenge on you.

जाना, भागना - Clear off

Don't bother me. Clear off !

बाल-बाल बचना - Close shave

My car was just about to dash against the lamp post. It was quite a close shave.

पता चलना - Come to light

The conspiracy came to light at the right time and plotters were arrested.

मिलता-जुलता होना - Correspoding to

While digging in the field other day I found an old coin Correspoding to the one shown in this picture.

विस्तार से कहना - Cover a lot of ground

In his very first lecture the professor covered a lot of ground.

बिल्कुल खिलाफ - Dead against

Her mother is dead against her acting in the films.

कतई पूरा न होने वाला - Dead loss

He invested quite a lot of money in paper business but it proved to be a dead loss.

आधी रात को - Dead of light

The theif entered the house at dead of night.

बहुत थका हुआ - Dead tired

Having walked Four miles I felt dead tired and immediately fell asleep.

मार डालना - Done to death

The poor man was done to death by repeated lathi blows on the head.

मर्यादा तय करना - Draw a line

I can at the most give you one thousand rupees. And then I must draw a line.

मिलने जाना - Drop in on

Do drop in on me whenever you have the time.

छोड़ देना - Drop out of

He had to drop out of the race when his car broke down.

शराब पीकर आने वाली झूठी वीरता - Dutch courage

He showed a lot of dutch courage, but got frightened as the drink wore off.