Omkar N.
Wakhlu & Bharat Wakhlu
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Chapter 25
Some Idiomatic Phrases
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Sycophant, A
person perpetually hankering after small favours. |
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Duffer |
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A clever
fellow |
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A careless
fellow, irresponsible |
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A strong
kinship, a network of people |
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A dunce |
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A person who
is naive, a wiseacre, a sententious dullard |
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Something
forced against one's will |
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Life is like
walking in wooden sandals over ice |
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Sad world
going from light into darkness |
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Dig at idlers |
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A bundle of
dried willow leaves used for feeding sheep in winter |
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The leader
will throw crumbs and the people will follow (satirical expression) |
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Showing off |
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Braggart |
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Spendthrift |
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Exaggerating |
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To stew in one's own
juice; to be engrossed in thoughts |
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A parasite/leech |
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Quid pro quo |
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To backbite |
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Effort going waste |
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Children take after their
parents |
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A wolf in sheep's skin |
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A poor person pretending
to be rich |
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Kowtowing the rich |
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A vagrant child |
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A negligible presence |
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A child prodigy |
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Lal Ded's vakh |
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Undeserving trying to shoo
away the deserving |
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Straightforward cannot go
wrong |
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Beware. Listen to advice |
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To sprinkle salt on the
wounds |
See the following words
carefully. See how the meaning changes with sounds of the vowel.
Tômul *ãr = pick out the grit;
clean the rice.
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