List of idioms start with T

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  • Tail between one's legs

    Meaning : Feel beaten, ashamed after a scolding etc.

  • Take after someone

    Meaning : Resemble

  • Take back

    Meaning : To retrect

  • Take exception to

    Meaning : Object to

  • Take French leave

    Meaning : To take leave without permission

  • Take heart

    Meaning : To have courage

  • Take in someone

    Meaning : to decieve someone

  • Take in something

    Meaning : to make something smaller

  • Take into account

    Meaning : Consider

  • Take it easy

    Meaning : Relax

  • Take off

    Meaning : Leave the ground

  • Take on

    Meaning : To give a job to or hire someone

  • Take on something

    Meaning : Acquire

  • Take someone down

    Meaning : Humiliate

  • Take someone off

    Meaning : to kill someone.

  • Take someone on

    Meaning : Employ

  • Take someone up on something

    Meaning : to consult with someone about something

  • Take something down

    Meaning : Write down

  • Take something in

    Meaning : to go and see or visit something

  • Take something off

    Meaning : Remove

  • Take something on

    Meaning : Accept

  • Take something out

    Meaning : to extract something

  • Take something over

    Meaning : Come into control of

  • Take something up

    Meaning : To begin an activity or hobby

  • Take somone out

    Meaning : Invite for entertainment

  • Take their lives in their hands

    Meaning : Undergo great risks

  • Take things easy

    Meaning : Does not work hard

  • Take up

    Meaning : Improve

  • Take up something

    Meaning : Begin to practise

  • Take up with someone

    Meaning : Become friends with

  • Take your courage in both hands

    Meaning : If you take your courage in both hands, you make yourself do something very brave

  • Taken the wind out of my sails

    Meaning : Made my words or actions ineffective by anticipating them

  • Talk down to someone

    Meaning : To use words or ideas that make you seem smarter or better than others

  • Talk shop

    Meaning : Talk exclusively about their business or professional affairs.

  • Talk someome into something

    Meaning : Dissuade

  • Talk someone down

    Meaning : Silence

  • Talk someone round

    Meaning : Persuade

  • talk talk

    Meaning : Boastful talk

  • Talk until the cows come home

    Meaning : Talk for a long time

  • Tell on someone

    Meaning : To tattle to someone about someone

  • Tenterhooks

    Meaning : In a state of suspense and anxiety

  • The dice are loaded

    Meaning : If everything seems to work to your disadvantage and you are not likely to succeed, you can say that the dice are loaded against you.

  • The dust has settled

    Meaning : To say that the dust has settled means that the situation has become calmer after a series of unpleasant or chaotic events.

  • The apple of your eye.

    Meaning : If somebody is the apple of your eye, this means that you like them very much :

  • The Ball Is In Your Court

    Meaning : It is your decision this time

  • The battle lines are drawn

    Meaning : This expression is used to say that opposing groups are ready to defend the reason behind the conflict

  • The bee's knees

    Meaning : If you say that someone/something is the bee's knees, you think they are exceptionally good.

  • The Best Of Both Worlds

    Meaning : There are two choices and you have them both

  • The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall

    Meaning : While the bigger and stronger opponent might be a lot more difficult to beat, when they do, they suffer a much bigger loss

  • The bill of fare

    Meaning : The menu

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