List of idioms start with P

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  • P's and Q's

    Meaning : Gentility

  • Pack something in

    Meaning : Abondon

  • Pack up

    Meaning : Cease work

  • Pad the bill

    Meaning : Add false expenses to a bill

  • Paddle one's own canoe

    Meaning : If you paddle your own canoe, you do what you want to do without help or interference from anyone.

  • Paid him back in his own coin

    Meaning : Treated him in the same way as he had treated me

  • Palmy days

    Meaning : Days of happiness

  • Part and parcel

    Meaning : Necessary part

  • Party spirit

    Meaning : Devotion to or enthusiasm for one's own partical support

  • Pass muster

    Meaning : Accepted as satisfactory

  • Pass off

    Meaning : Disappear

  • Pass out

    Meaning : Faint

  • Pass over something

    Meaning : Aviod

  • Pass The Buck

    Meaning : Avoid responsibility by giving it to someone else

  • Pay for someone / something

    Meaning : Be thought to be

  • Pay lip service

    Meaning : Pretending to be a helper

  • Pay off

    Meaning : Finish paying for

  • Pay the piper

    Meaning : Face the consequences for something you've done

  • Pedal to the metal

    Meaning : To go full speed, especially while driving a vehicle

  • Peeping Tom

    Meaning : Someone who observes people in the nude or sexually active people, mainly for his own gratification

  • Pell-mell

    Meaning : Here and there

  • Pick someone up

    Meaning : Collect

  • Pick something up

    Meaning : learn

  • Pick up

    Meaning : Continue

  • Pick up the tab

    Meaning : Pay the bill

  • Pick up your ears

    Meaning : To listen very carefully

  • Pile something on

    Meaning : Intensify and make worse

  • Pin someone down

    Meaning : Cause to definr inventions

  • Pin something down

    Meaning : State exactly

  • Pins one's faith to

    Meaning : Places full reliance upon

  • Plain sailing

    Meaning : A plan, course of action without obstacle or difficulties

  • Plastic

    Meaning : Credit card

  • Play along

    Meaning : To pretend to cooperate with someone

  • Play fast and loose

    Meaning : To be non-principled

  • Play someone along

    Meaning : Keep waiting

  • Play something down / up

    Meaning : Make to appear less / more important

  • Play up

    Meaning : To emphasize something

  • Play up to someone

    Meaning : Flatter to gain advantage

  • Play your cards right

    Meaning : This means that you do all that is necessary in order to succeed.

  • Played me false

    Meaning : Deceived me, betrayed me

  • Point blank

    Meaning : Clearly

  • Poke one's nose into

    Meaning : Unnecessary interference

  • Polish something off

    Meaning : Finish quickly

  • Polish something up

    Meaning : Improve

  • Pooped

    Meaning : Very tired

  • Pop quiz

    Meaning : Unannounced short test

  • Press on

    Meaning : Continue one's effort

  • Press something on someone

    Meaning : Force to accept

  • Pretty

    Meaning : Rather

  • Printer's devil

    Meaning : Mistakes

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