List of Important Idioms and Phrases Beginning with P

 

List of Important Idioms and Phrases Beginning with P

1.Pay your dues- कड़ी मेहनत के बाद एक स्थान कमाना

Meaning: Earn a position after a hard work

Use: They want me to resign, but everybody knows that I paid my dues to get this post.

2.Play away from home- किसी और के साथ मज़े करना

Meaning: To have fun with someone else

Use: She divorced her husband because he has a habit of playing away from home.

3.Play second fiddle- किसी और की तुलना में कम महत्व मिलना 

Meaning: To acts as a subordinate to someone/be treated as less important than someone

Use: Ram plays a second fiddle in his own company.

4.Put the cart before the horse- किसी चीज़ को गलत स्थान पर इस्तेमाल करना

Meaning: To put a thing in wrong order.

Use: Mohit always put the cart before the horse, when he practices maths.

5.Put one's shoulder to the wheel- कड़ी मेहनत करना 

Meaning: To do a lot of hard work

Use: In constructing this house labours put their shoulder to the wheel.

6.Put the cat among the pigeons- शांति में भी परेशानी पैदा करना

Meaning: Create a disturbance in calm situation

Use: Company put the cat among the pigeons when it announced the new policy.

7.Put years on- बुजुर्ग दिखने लगना

Meaning: To look old

Use: Family problem put years on mohit .

8.Part and Parcel- महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा

Meaning: Unavoidable part

Use: Ram is the part and parcel of this company.

9.To play fast and loose- किसी को धोखा दे

 

 Meaning: Betray someone

Use: Mohit has a habit of playing fast and loose.

10.Past master- किसी चीज़ में विशेषज्ञ

Meaning: Expert in something

Use: Ram is the past master in maths.

11.Petticoat government-एक महिला का नियम 

 

Meaning: Rule of a woman

Use: When there is a petticoat government, there will be a cat fight.

12.Piece of cake- एक बहुत आसान काम

 

Meaning: A very easy task

Use: To clear SSC is not a piece of cake.

13.Pie in the sky-अव्यवहार्य

Meaning: Fictional, impracticable

Use: Clearing SSC CGL is not pie in the sky.

14.Put down- तुरन्त कम करना 

 

Meaning: Reduce instantly

Use: After army operation the numbers of terrorist are put down.

15.Pick holes in another’s coat-किसी और में दोष निकालना

Meaning: To find fault in someone else

Use: We should refrain ourselves from the habit of picking holes in another’s coat.