Idioms beginning with P
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Meaning: to pass on the responsibility
Example: The director of the company passed the torch after he got too sick to take care of the company matters. Read more ➺
Meaning: to be determined to work very hard
Example: The company needs you to pull your socks up now that the market condition is so bad. Read more ➺
Meaning: to start paying attention
Example: The teacher asked her student to prick up his ears when he kept on disturbing the class with silly jokes. Read more ➺
Meaning: to take to one or more notches down to its current standard
Example: The exercise was piped down for the audiences because the original would have been too difficult for the crowd to follow. Read more ➺
Meaning: to kill or discontinue
Example: The doctors decided to pull the plug on Uncle Bill when he stopped responding to all the treatment courses that they took. Read more ➺
Meaning: to keep repeating something over and over so that one can get good at that activity
Example: The most important thing about getting better at playing a sport is to keep playing it. There is nothing like enough practice and eventually it is the practice that will make you perfect. Read more ➺
Meaning: to ask someone to stop talking
Example: The teacher had asked the student to be quiet several times but he was still talking. She got angry and asked him to put a sock in it. Read more ➺
Meaning: listen carefully
Example: She pricked up her ears when she heard her name being mentioned by the group chatting animatedly at the corner. Read more ➺
Meaning: something that is bought without examining properly
Example: If you buy a used car without examining it thoroughly first, you might end up buying a pig in a poke. Read more ➺
Meaning: do something at full speed
Example: I need to submit this assignment in two days' time. I have to put pedal to the metal else I will miss the deadline. Read more ➺
