Fariha Shah in General Articles 7 years ago

Most Popular Idioms and Phrases Part-22

Phrases & Idioms	Meaning in Urdu / Hindi	Sentence
Up and down	Idhar udhar	I walk the whole day ups and down.
Ups and downs	Bad qismati	There were many ups and downs in the life of Ahmed.
Draw the line	Had dhondna	1- Draw the line when you travel towards your aim of life. 2- I don’t mind helping, but I draw the line at doing everything myself.
Bring the hammer	Nilami kerna	The shop was brought to the hammer.
At any hand	Kisi bhi surat	I have to achieve my aim at any hand.
Come to one’s hand	Asani se hasil ho jana	Fortune has comes to my hand.
Good hands	Qabil e bharosa	The girl is in good hands.
Hang one’s head	Sharminda hona	After a convincing defeat the cricketers hung their heads.
Heart of oak	Ghera asar lena	After an accident he had a heart of oak.
Take heart	Bahadur bano	Take heart and do your duty in life.
Take measures	Iqdamaat kerna	Let us take measures to the ride ourselves of all color of corruptions.
Bitter medicine	Mushkil ilaj	Every social disease today requires a bitter medicine which we are afraid to administer.
Give the meeting	Kisi maqsad k liye mulaqaat kerna	They can give us a meeting at hotel tomorrow afternoon.
Meet with	Achanak aajana	I met with a friend on the shopping center. She met with great trials, trouble and tribulations.
Golden means	Darmyani rasta, mayana rawi	Hazrat Muhammed (P.B.U.H) preach the doctrine of the golden means.
Melt one’s heart	Rahem ka bais	Death melt the heart of anybody but effect does not last long.
To make a merit of	Behter rukh dekhna	A wise man will always try to make a merit of everything.
Milk and honey	Afrat, bohtat	Days are gone when we were a milk and honey.
At the mercy of	K rehmon karam per	We should not be at the mercy of anybody.
Metal case	Pagal pan	He think that Kamran is a mental case.
On the mend	Behtri ki taraf	The workers are on the mend.
Wash one’s hands of	Zimadari se dastbardar hona	We shouldn’t have wash our hands of from social problems.
Come to hand	Wasool kerna	All the members of our family come to hand at the airport this morning.