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Meaning: argue jealously and violently all the time
Example: The married couple fought like cat and dog the entire time they were together. Read more ➺
Meaning: to play with or tease someone
Example: The cops do not like playing cat and mouse games with the culprits before catching them. Read more ➺
Meaning: do or say something that causes trouble and make a lot of people angry or worried
Example: The foreigner put the cat among the pigeons when he made some sensitive comments about the people's religion. Read more ➺
Meaning: The responsibility for a situation or a problem with somebody.
Example: One does not need to blame anybody else for corruption in the republic of India; the buck stops with the leaders of the government of the world's biggest democratic nation. Read more ➺
Meaning: a difficult, controversial, or obvious problem that no one wants to talk about or mention because the subject is problematic, uncomfortable, or awkward
Example: When Geoff arrived at the meeting yesterday, he had a huge black eye. He gave us no explanation, and nobody dared ask him about it. So we sat there for the whole morning with this elephant in the room. Read more ➺
Meaning: an expensive item with no use or purpose
Example: Everyone thought the Olympic stadiums would be a white elephant after the closing ceremony. Read more ➺
Meaning: mentally go somewhere surreal or strange
Example: Peter is having another one of his parties on Friday. Time to go down the rabbit hole again. Read more ➺
Meaning: something that is pointless
Example: The chancellor has a plan to increase taxes, thinking that this would improve the economy. It would bring owls to Athens. Read more ➺
Meaning: wasting resource working on something that does not exist
Example: They tampered with my research. Thank God I found it out. I'm sure they were hoping to send me on a wild goose chase as I continue my research. Read more ➺
you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
Meaning: we can offer good things to people but we can't force them to accept that
Example: I have tried my level best to educate him well, but he is still having a non-serious behavior, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Read more ➺
