- Rack and ruin
- If something or someone goes to rack and ruin, they are utterly destroyed or wrecked.
- Rack your brain
- If you rack your brain, you think very hard when trying to remember something. ('Rack your brains' is an alternative.)
- Rags to riches
- Someone who starts life very poor and becomes rich goes from rags to riches.
- Rain on your parade
- If someone rains on your parade, they ruin your pleasure or your plans.
- Raining cats and dogs
- When it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining very heavily.
- Raise eyebrows
- If something raises eyebrows, it shocks or surprises people.
- Rake over old coals
- (UK) If you go back to old problems and try to bring them back, making trouble for someone, you are raking over old coals.
- Rake someone over the coals
- (USA) If you rake someone over the coals, you criticize or scold them severely.
- Zigged before you zagged
- If you did things in the wrong order, you zigged before you zagged.
- Zip your lip
- If someone tells you to zip your lip, they want to to shut up or keep quiet about something. ('Zip it' is also used.)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS - 2
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