Weka idioms/nahau mbalimbali unazozifahamu katika uzi huu

From the horse's mouth - From the first source.
Leave no stone unturned - make every possible effort.
Make both ends meet - Spend no more than the money one has.
 
kwa kiswahili haimo??

Kumbe ninayo na mie moja.

What's your name?- Jina lako nani?
 
Hit the roof - Get angry

Hell break loose - cause a fight or a reaction of anger

Shot hit the fan - secret exposed
 
grist to the mill:

If you say something is grist to the mill, you mean that is useful for a particular purpose, or helps support someone's point of view.
 
Raining cats and dogs - raining heavily

Tell it in black and white - Tell something as it is without mincing words.

In hot soup - in trouble

The shoe is getting tighter - can't bear the situation anymore.
 
ebbs and flows

describes the way that something repeatedly increases and decreases

e.g. the ebb and flow of Peggy's moods.
 
1. Smell a rat --- Become suspicious.
2. Fish in troubled water --- benefit from bad situation
3. Turn a new leaf---- Change one's behavior
 
by leaps and bounds: rapidly, by large movement forward

e.g. Since he became the manager of the company profits are increasing by leaps and bounds.
 
out of touch with: not aware of recent changes in some situation, not in contact with someone

e.g. Politicians are out of touch with the lives of the people.

out of touch: not in contact/communication with someone
e.g. We have been out of touch for years
 
1. State - of- the art----- of latest technology
2. With the naked eye----- see with unaided eyes i.e without using any optical instruments.
 
If you say that someone is a cut above others: you mean that someone is better than others.


cut and dried: clear and definite
e.g. We are aiming for guidelines not cut-and-dried answers.

the cut and thrust of an activity: the aspects of an activity that make it challenging
 
If someone does not cut the mustard, his work or performance is not as good as it is expected to be.
 
be flying high. to be very successful in one’s ambitions; to obtain an importan or powerful position. e,g chadema is flying high
 
break the back of -something to end the domination of something; to reduce the power of something.
call a spade a spade= to call something by its right name; to speak frankly about something, even if it is unpleasant.
 
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