List of idioms start with C

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  • Change up

    Meaning : Put in ahigh gear

  • Changed colour

    Meaning : Turned pale

  • Changed hands

    Meaning : Became someone else's property

  • Chapter and verse

    Meaning : Full and precise reference to authority

  • Charley Horse

    Meaning : Stiffness in the leg / A leg cramp

  • Chase rainbows

    Meaning : Someone who is chasing rainbows is trying to get something they will never obtain

  • Check in (at)

    Meaning : Register one's arrival

  • Chew someone out

    Meaning : Verbally Scold Someone

  • Chew the fat

    Meaning : If you chew the fat with somebody, you chat in an informal way about unimportant things

  • Chicken

    Meaning : Cowardly

  • Chicken out of something

    Meaning : If you chicken out of something, you decide not to do something because you are afraid.

  • Chime in

    Meaning : If you chime in, you interrupt or join a conversation, especially to repeat or agree with something

  • Chip on his Shoulder

    Meaning : Angry today about something that occurred in the past

  • Chop and change

    Meaning : If you chop and change, you constantly change your opinion, plans or methods and often cause confusion.

  • Chow Down

    Meaning : To eat

  • Clean slate

    Meaning : A clean slate is a record of your work or actions that does not show past mistakes and allows you to make a fresh start

  • Clear out

    Meaning : Leave and not return

  • Clear something up

    Meaning : Solve by removing doubt

  • Clear the air

    Meaning : If you decide to clear the air, you try to remove the causes of fear, worry or suspicion by talking about them openly.

  • Clinch a deal

    Meaning : In a business relationship, if you clinch a deal, you reach agreement on a proposal or offer.

  • Clip someone's wings

    Meaning : If you clip someone's wings, you do something to restrict their freedom.

  • Close but no cigar

    Meaning : This expression refers to an effort to do something which was a good attempt but not quite good enough to succeed.

  • Close the books

    Meaning : Stop taking orders, end a bookkeeping period

  • Close to home

    Meaning : If a remark or comment is close to home, it is so true, or it affects you so directly, that you feel uncomfortable.

  • Cock and bull story

    Meaning : Idle invention, Made up story

  • Coining money

    Meaning : Making money very rapidly, earning large sums easily

  • Cold calls

    Meaning : If you make cold calls, you telephone potential customers from a list of people you do not know.

  • Collect one's thoughts

    Meaning : If you collect your thoughts, you try to think calmly and clearly in order to prepare yourself mentally for something.

  • Come a grief

    Meaning : To suffer

  • Come across

    Meaning : Be understood clearly

  • Come along

    Meaning : Hurry

  • Come apart at the seams

    Meaning : To say that someone is coming apart at the seams means that they are extremely upset or under severe mental stress

  • Come back

    Meaning : Return a rebuke in rude manner

  • Come down on someone

    Meaning : Criticize

  • Come Hell Or High Water

    Meaning : Any difficult situation or obstacle

  • Come in handy

    Meaning : To say that something may come in handy means that it may be useful some time or other.

  • Come into one's own

    Meaning : When you come into your own, you receive the credit or recognition you deserve.

  • Come of it !

    Meaning : Stop talking nonsense

  • Come on strong

    Meaning : Overwhelm with excessively strong language or personality

  • Come to a head

    Meaning : If a problem or difficult situation comes to a head, it reaches a point where action has to be taken.

  • Come to blows

    Meaning : If two or more people come to blows, they start to fight.

  • Come to grief

    Meaning : If someone or something comes to grief, they have an accident, are destroyed or end in failure.

  • Coming to the front

    Meaning : Attaining prominence, becoming conspicuous

  • Cook something up

    Meaning : Invent

  • Cook the books

    Meaning : illegally change information in accounting books in a company

  • Cooking the accounts

    Meaning : Preparing false accounts

  • Cool

    Meaning : Neat, special, wonderful

  • Cool it!

    Meaning : Calm down

  • Cost an arm and a leg

    Meaning : If something costs an arm and a leg, it is very expensive!

  • Crack down on something

    Meaning : If the authorities decide to crack down on something, they enforce the law by taking severe measures to restrict undesirable or criminal actions.

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