MICA Special Word Association Andheri|Borivali|Powai|Pune www.catking.in [email protected]Clues Answer Party,boy,sphere Ball-Have a ball--party, Ball boy--lawn tennis, Ball is spherical. Goods,flea,down Market- like used goods market, flea market and down market Rate,bottom,location Base-Base Rate--banking, Base-- Bottom, Shift Base from one place to another--Location Lies,card,punch Pack- a pack of lies, a pack of cards, to pack a punch(to hit someone hard) Sunrise,light,goddess Aurora-Sunrise is a syn. Of aurora, Aurora lights is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere, Aurora , from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn Country,conference,website Host- host country (Nation in which individuals or organizations from other countries or states are visiting due to government invitation or meeting.), host a conference, a host website. Top,confusion,head Spin-Spin like a Top, All in a spin-- Confusion, Head spin. Spear,condition,mint Mint- spearmint, in a mint condition (in perfect condition),mint is where coins are made. Discord,eye,order Apple-Apple of discord - cause of quarrel Apple of my eye - beloved Apple pie order - perfect order - all idioms Invest,kind,fish Angel- AngelInvestment---Initial investment in a project, U have been an angel to me---U hav been Kind, AngelFish a type of fish.
Clues Answer Party,boy,sphere Ball-Have a ball--party, Ball boy--lawn
tennis, Ball is spherical.
Goods,flea,down Market- like used goods market, flea market and down market
Rate,bottom,location Base-Base Rate--banking, Base--Bottom, Shift Base from one place to another--Location
Lies,card,punch Pack- a pack of lies, a pack of cards, to pack a punch(to hit someone hard)
Sunrise,light,goddess Aurora-Sunrise is a syn. Of aurora, Aurora lights is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere, Aurora , from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn
Country,conference,website Host- host country (Nation in which individuals or organizations from other countries or states are visiting due to government invitation or meeting.), host a conference, a host website.
Top,confusion,head Spin-Spin like a Top, All in a spin--Confusion, Head spin.
Spear,condition,mint Mint- spearmint, in a mint condition (in perfect condition),mint is where coins are made.
Discord,eye,order Apple-Apple of discord - cause of quarrel Apple of my eye - beloved Apple pie order - perfect order - all idioms
Invest,kind,fish Angel- AngelInvestment---Initial investment in a project, U have been an angel to me---U hav been Kind, AngelFish a type of fish.
Disc,bell,ears Ring-disc,ring both circular. ring a bell, ring in someone's ears
Bunk,land,trench Ditch-Ditch class--bunk, Ditch a plane--emergency landing, Ditch is trench
Five,hog,drink High- high five, high on the hog--luxury, getting high after drinking.
Replica,face,mirror Image- replica of an image, synonym of face is image as an aspect of something, mirror image
Slash,steam,oil Burn-slash and burn(doing something in a crude way), steam burn,burn the midnight oil.
Eat,hand,old Hat-Hat in hand--modest, i'll eat my hat--surprised, old hat--old fashioned
Use,knock,water Tap-Tap energy--use, Tap on the shoulder--knock, Tap water
Hand,ear,money Lend- lend a helping hand, lend an ear, lend money
Water,show,music Pump-water pump, pump shoe, pump up the music
Solve,laugh,voice Crack- to solve is to crack a problem ,Crack someone up- make someone laugh, crack a joke—laugh, cracked voice
Metal,bicycle,music Pedal-pedal to metal--full speed, pedal in music--a bass note
Adhesive,bread,biscuit Wafer-A small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters. , A small thin crisp cake or cookie. , Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist).
Tough,shell,ground Nut-Tough nut to crack, Nutshell, Groundnut
Step,tempo,march Pace-Take small paces--small steps, Pace of work---tempo, keep Pace with—match
Trade,contract,card Deal-Deal in drugs--Trade, Deal is
Basket,detergent,dirty Laundry- laundry basket, laundry detergent(washing powder),dirty laundry(personal matters that could be embarrassing if made public)
Abstract,Integrity,Policy ,Deceit
Honesty is abstrct,Honesty & integrity,honesty best policy,honesty--deceit..opp
Treasure,barrier,easter Island-treasure island, a coastal landform and a type of barrier system, are relatively narrow strips of sand that are parallel to the mainland coast,easter island
Crier,down,ghost Town-downtown, town crier , town of ghosts
Leader,western,labour Union-leader of an union,western union,labour union
pin, bag, plane, round Paper- paper pin(paper clip),paper bag, paper plane,paper round(the route taken when delivering newspapers every day)
Ascend,measure,large,wage Scale-ascend is to climb(scale),scale is used to measure sth,large-scale, Minimum wage is also called Scale.. if someone works for minimum wage, he works for a scale
Face,kind,writer,cast Type-Type face(family of fonts), Type -- kind , type writer , type cast
Surge,heat,ride,curve Wave-to rise and move in waves or billow(surge),heat wave, Ride the wave -- to make use of a popular opinion,wave is in the form of a curve
Short,tooth,revenge,kind Sweet-short and sweet,have a sweet
tooth,sweet revenge(aterm which generally states that taking revenge gives satisfaction),syn. Of kind
Feel,strike,hammer,stretch Home-feel at home,strike home(reach an intended target),hammer home - to try extremely hard to make someone understand or realize something, Home stretch -- last part of any difficult activity
QUESTION ANSWER RELATION
Key - Free - Hair – Safe (A) Secret (B) Pin (C) Air (D) Lock (E) Open
Lock
Mis - Air - well Fare
Broadway - Alley - Dance Street Alley is a kind of street
Out - Wood - Head
Wind
Outwind is to unloose; Woodwind is related to flute; head wind is wind blowing against the course of an aircraft/ship.
Thick - Red - Water Skin / Head
Thick skin / redskin waterskin /"head" as in 'thick-head' for a lazy person “water-head” for the body of water and “red-head”
Pick - Blue - Saw Tooth Toothpick – Bluetooth - Saw tooth
Life - Speed - Bare Boat
Life boat – Speed boat - bareboat (kind of vessel that doesn't require a crew on it..like a yatch)
Dead - Up - Off - thrash Beat
Beat to death – Beat up – Off beat - Thrash = beat
for activities such as sewing Horsebox - used for transporting horses
Head - Band - With Stand
Pipe - Day – Nightmare Dream Pipe dream - the fantasies that one gets after smoking weed or something
Slight - Devil – Day Care Devil may care - idiom meaning careless attitude
False - Music - Clock Face Face the Music - (idiom) it means face the punishment
Black - Fool – Strike Gold fool's gold - means something that looks and seems like gold but isn't
Magic - Screen - Nerve Touch To touch a nerve (idiom) - to cause an emotional reaction
Box – Ward – Black Out
Hand – Scarce – Cake Short
Blow – Ignite - A Balance - Three Strike To strike or to deal a blow means the same thing in a physical assault, you have to strike the stones to ignite fire, strike a balance is a phrase, Three strikes are for baseball
Bag - Card - Do - Cheap Trick Bag of tricks - A set of acquired techniques or skills that one uses to win, perform, or influence the outcome of a situation.
Laundry - Look - Cop - Quick Dirty Dirty cop – Corrupt cop; Quick and Dirty (idiom ) - means work done in fast but in careless way
Art - Blood - Quick – Game Draw
Skin - Ankle - Down - Dig Deep
Fee-Salute-Unbalance-Cue Tip Tipped Salute - saluting while touching tip of your hat ; unbalance = tip over
News – Flatten - Emphasize – Pursue Press Press on it - emphasize on it
Cut - Turn - Stone - Street Corner To cut corners is to take shortcuts, Turn a corner (idiom) - it means to change, streets have corners and cornerstone is used as a foundation while building things, roads, buildings, etc.
Rock - Nut - Pressed - Die Hard Rock Hard - Hard as rock , Nut - Hard nut to crack - difficult to tackle , Hard Pressed - Left with no choice , Die hard - Habits which don’t go easily
Bad - Beginner - Rotten - Out Luck Luck Out (idiom ) - Succeed by luck
Food - Away - Dog – Words Eat Dog eat Dog (idiom ) - means people will do anything to succeed
Cancer – Fire – cooking - Screen Smoke Smoking causes Cancer
Scare - Trap - Bed - Sentence Death
Guilt - Ego - Round – Along Trip Guilt trip - A usually prolonged feeling of guilt or culpability; lay a guilt trip on (idiom) - To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty; ego trip - something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person's own image or appraisal of himself.
Children - Hell - Roof - Salary Raise Raise hell - take strong and forceful
action, as to object or express discontent; "She raised hell when she found out that she would not be hired again"
Fist - Laundry - Metal - Laundry - Pump Iron
Money - Hard - Cow - in Cash Cash cow - A steady dependable source of funds or income
Debase - Bend – Steps Stoop Stoop - when you Debase yourself Morally; Bend – Stoop; Stoop steps- A raised flat area with steps.
Whistle - Clear - Ring - Church Bell Clear as a bell ; Bells and Whistles (idiom) - extra, fancy add-ons or gadgets
Fat - Dirty - Sweat - Out Pig Sweat like a pig - to sweat heavily; Pig Out - to eat too much of something
Glove - Hand - Short - Play Hand Hand in glove; Hand in hand.
Royal - Bulge - War – Nerves Battle Battle of nerves ( must have heard in commentary ) - a situation in which two competing groups of people try to defeat each other by frightening and threatening each other without taking action.
Man - Tailor - Money – Self Made Made of money (idiom) - have unlimited money
Lose - Ground - On – Bus Stand Stand to lose something - to be likely to lose something or have it taken away
Case - Cut - Hand - Middle class Upper
Ball - Sword – Pusher Pen The pen is mightier than the sword (idiom) – words and communication are more powerful than wars and fighting; Penpusher - a person who writes a lot, esp a clerk involved with boring paperwork.
Run - Color - Police – Shield Riot To run riot - to act wantonly or without restraint; a riot of color - extremely colorful and bright; Riot police - the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public place; riot shield - a large oblong curved transparent shield used by police controlling crowds.
Coast - Bell - Free – Air Clear Clear the coast: get rid of obstacles, as clear as a bell: crystal clear.
Stars - Look - Apple - Naked Eye
Lies - Punch - Bag - Back Pack Pack of lies - a completely false story; Pack a punch - To be capable of throwing a strong punch; To have a swift and powerful effect or to be capable of having such an effect.
Dust - TeaCup - Brain - Around Storm Storm in a teacup (idiom) - creating big ruckus over nothing much important
Flip - Split - Effect – Thorn Side Flip sides - other aspect of a situation Split sides - Laughing very hard; Thorn in the side - one who is
Wind - Split - Nature – Best Second second wind - A new strength or energy to continue something that is an effort; second nature to someone - easy and natural for someone
Opposite - Battle - Fair – Object Sex Opposite sex; Battle of the sexes; fair sex; sex object.
Motion - Circle - Hell – Potter Wheel Hell on wheels (idiom) – extremely difficult.
Religion - Leap - Act – Little Faith Leap of faith - acceptance of an idea or conclusion largely on faith;
Shave - Call - Shut - Deal Close
Still – Night – Under - Alone Stand
Leader - Suit - Heart – Crowd Follow
Organ - Gold - Stone - Young Heart
Mouth - Sink - Tear – Steal Heart
Conviction - Second - Matter – Difference Opinion
Chocolates – Office – Beat - In Box
Reach - Limit - Pie - Cloud Sky Pie in the sky - Khyali Pulav or Hawai mahal (an idea which looks good but can’t be achieved) OR future reward after death, considered as a replacement for a reward not received on earth
Toes - Between - Down – Ladder Step To step on someone's toes - to offend or insult someone, as if causing physical pain; step between (someone or something and someone or something else) - to move between things or people; step (something) down - to reduce the intensity or amount of something by one step or grade.
Aberration - Grace - Concentration - Expire Lapse Aberration = deviation from normal course or routine = Lapse; Lapse from grace (idiom) - to fall out of favor.
Loose - Fodder - Gun - Church Bell Cannon Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for military personnel who are regarded or treated as expendable in the face of enemy fire; Loose Cannon - someone who is unpredictable.
Pretty - Big - Get – Photo Picture
Paint - Out - Perfect – Whole Picture To paint a picture (of something) - to describe a situation in a particular way;
Giant - Night - Log – With Sleep
Young - Spit - Cold - Blue Blood Blue blood - a person of aristocratic or wealthy ancestry
Feelings - Bag - Blend - Economy Mixed
Time - Know - Out – Around All Lose - Get - Grasp - Friction Grip Grip - the friction between a body and
the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
High - Back - Moral – Break Ground To break ground (for something) - to start digging the foundation for a
Snake - Poison - Malice – Anti Venom Venom is a synonym of malice
Snake-Wheel-Fish-Paint Oil / water
Snake oil - advice or solutions to problems which are of no use.
Wine - Belt - Sour – Vineyard Grape belt the grape - to drink wine or liquor heavily and become intoxicated.
Corridor - Exercise - Trip – Outage Powers Corridors of power - the highest level of government where the most important decisions are made; on a power trip - exercising power and authority, especially unduly; exercise power over - someone or something under one's control or influence; power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails.
Open - Wrestling - Length – Weapon Arm
Anger - All - Fly – Bristle Rage Bristle with rage (idiom) - express anger such that saying all the negative things; all the rage (idiom) - currently in fashion; Fly into a Rage - to be very angry (suddenly).
Dead - take - warmth - Moment Heat in a dead heat - at exactly the same time; take the heat - to receive or put up with criticism (for something); Heat - degree of warmth; heat of the moment - without thinking because you are angry or excited.
Rat - Time - Course - Card Race race card - like we say in India, politician playing minority card ( bringing racism in where it does not exist )
Close - Phone - Spade -Shots Call a close call - a situation where something very unpleasant or dangerous nearly happened; call a spade a spade - to call something by its right name; to speak frankly about something, even if it is unpleasant; call (all) the shots - to decide on the course of action; to be in charge.
Mere - Naked - Bones - Soul Bare mere and naked are meanings of bare; bare bones - it means most essential details; bare your soul / heart - to tell someone your secret thoughts and feelings;
Legs - Change - Front - Ocean Sea Get your sea legs - to get used to a new situation; sea change - a major change or transformation.
Eye - Out - Blue - Color Black
Smoke - Fighter - Alarm – Draw Fire draw (somebody's) fire – to attract criticism.
Get - Hot - Fly - Cope Handle Get a handle on something - to find a way to understand a situation in order to control it; fly off the handle - to lose one's temper; too hot to handle - too dangerous or difficult to deal with.
Baptism - Breathe - Belly - Fuel Fire Baptism by fire - a tough situation to deal with; breathe fire - playing at something really well; fire in the belly
- motivated, fuel is used to fire up vehicles or rather light a fire.
Pick - Down - Key - Horns Lock To pick a lock - to open a lock without using a key; to be locked down – to be in jail.
Out - Abandon - Jump - Vessel Ship Ship out - Leave, especially for a distant place; abandon ship - to leave a sinking ship, to leave a failing enterprise; To jump ship - to leave any post or position; to quit or resign, especially when there is difficulty with the job.
Topple - Salute - Toe - Iceberg Tip To tip over - to topple over and fall.
Rough - Loose - Brink – Double Edge A double-edged sword - something that causes both advantages and problems.
Trick - Stock - Secret - Transaction Trade Tricks of the trade (idiom) - means clever methods that help you to do a job better or faster
Travel - First - Bring - kindle Light
Charges - Against - Luck - Iron Press To press charges (against someone) - to make a formal charge of wrongdoing against someone; to press your luck - to attempt to gain more from a good situation usually at the risk of losing what you have gained.
Straddle - Sit - Hedge – Mend Fence To straddle the fence - to support both sides of an issue; to sit on the fence - not to take sides in a dispute; not to make a clear choice between two possibilities; to mend (your) fences - to try to become friendly again with someone after an argument.
Cane - Thin - Mud - Neck Stick Stick your neck out (idiom) - defend someone, vouch for someone; mud sticks (idiom) - something that you say which means it is difficult to make people change their bad opinion of someone.
Air - Loan - Idea - Boat Float Float on air (idiom) - to be euphoric;
Dead - Throw - Pull - Burden Weight
Tall - Short - Sequence - Law Order tall order - a formidable task or requirement; in short order - very quickly.
Dead - Cord - Corners – Mow Cut To cut someone dead - to ignore someone totally; to cut the cord - to stop needing someone else to look after you and start acting independently; to cut corners - to take shortcuts; to save money or effort by finding cheaper or easier ways to do something.
Set - Stride - Snail – Change Pace
Apartment - Elbow - Make – Improvement Room
Admiral - Guard - view - lift Rear
Pull - Spark - Away - Cork Plug A spark plug - a person with a lot of
energy and ideas who encourages the other people in a group; to pull the plug - to put an end to someone's activities or plans; to plug away (at something) - to keep trying something; to keep working at something.
Death - Honey - Set - Fly Trap
Clear - Tongue - End - Mind Sharp
Blood - Down - Over - Steam Flow / Boil
Stem - Drift - Time - Gravity Tide To stem the tide - to stop something bad, which is happening a lot.
Burst - Anger - Fan - Blaze Flame To fan the flames (of something) - to make something more intense; to make a situation worse.
Test - Hot - Hold - River Water To test the water/waters - to try to discover what people think about an idea before you do anything about it, or to try to discover what a situation is really like before you become very involved in it.
War - Mouth - Law - Sentence Word
Break - Play - Last - Twist Word To break one's word - not to do what one said one would do; not to keep one's promise; a play on words - a type of joke using a word or phrase that has two meanings; to twist someone's words (around) - to restate someone's words inaccurately; to misrepresent what someone has said.
Line - Print - Penalty - Tune Fine
Dry - Cast - Break - Period Spell Break a spell - to put an end to a magic spell; Spell - is also a period of time for eg. spell of bad weather.
Purpose - Time - Servant – Notice Serve
Contain - Horse - Water - Ransom Hold To hold somebody to ransom - to force someone to do something by putting them in a situation where something bad will happen to them if they do not.
Ivory - Strength - Control - Watch Tower An ivory tower - if you are in an ivory tower, you are in a place or situation where you are separated from ordinary life and its problems; tower of strength - person who can always be depended on to provide support and encouragement, especially in times of trouble.
Bag - Line - Down - Dream Pipe To pipe down - to become quiet; to cease making noise; to shut up; pipe dream - a wish or an idea that is impossible to achieve or carry out.
Sore - Miss - Strong – Aim Point A sore point/spot - a subject which someone would prefer not to talk about because it makes them angry or embarrassed; miss the point - to fail to understand the important part
Marriage - Book - Wide - Blatant Open Blatant means something done openly.
Down - Jerk - Weak - Joint Knee
Dry - Risk - Fever - Race Run
Down - Cylinder - Mouth - Gallop Run Run on all cylinders - working on full capacity; Run mouth - very talkative.
Stiff - Through - Death - Drill Bore To bore someone stiff - to be exceedingly dull and uninteresting; bore through someone - to seem to penetrate the person being gazed or stared at.
Nest - Death - Child - Lost Love
Make - Labor - Fall - Tough Love Tough love - an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run
Boat - Case - Time - Now just in time just - now for me that was the thing; Just off the boat - someone very naïve.
Build - Rest - Nut - Best Case To build a case (against someone) - to put together the evidence needed to make a legal or disciplinary case against someone.
Stand - Error - Balloon - Fire Trial Trial balloon - a test of someone's or the public's reaction.
Ghost - Lie - Elephant - Knight White
Sea - Charge - Flat - Field Level
Daylight - Shoulders - Back - Wide Broad
Descent - Dead - Ocean - Hint Drop
Ready - Heads - Sleeves - Wander Roll
Fire - Tough - Hair – Suspend Hang To hang fire - to delay or wait; to be delayed; hang tough (on something) - to stick to one's position (on something); hang by a hair - to hang by something very thin, such as a thread or a hair.
Horse - True - Person – Chameleon colors
Fall - Put - Wipe - Atlas Map Fall off the map - stop existing; Put on the map - Make something visible on the national level or any level.
Flood - Point - View – Flaunt Flash
Late - Rush - After - Period Hours
Leaf - hand - Leg - Tremble Shake To shake like a leaf - to shake a lot because you are nervous or frightened.
Track - Straight - Player – Break Record
Marks - Card - Know – Music Score
Fan - Shoot - Land - Chilly Breeze To shoot the breeze - to chat casually and without purpose.
Book - Honor - Speaker - House Guest
Love - Alley - Luck - Sight Blind blind alley - An alley or passage that is closed at one end; A mistaken, unproductive undertaking; blind luck - complete luck; nothing but plain luck.
Freeze - Recent - Jog - Lane Memory To freeze someone or something in one's memory - to preserve the image of someone or something in one's memory; to jog someone's memory - to stimulate someone's memory to recall something.
Bail - Gun - Queue - Leap Jump To jump bail and - to fail to appear in court for trial and forfeit one's bail bond; to jump the gun - to start before the starting signal.
Milk - Over - Beans – Fall Spill Slim - Risk - Even – Take Chance
Old - Drop - Protect - Stand Guard To drop/lower your guard - to stop being careful to avoid danger or difficulty; to stand guard – to keep watch.
Matter - Horse - Run - Collision Course
Mind - Rain - Correct - Birth Right Right as rain - have a nice feeling.
Ruins - Wait - Down - Low Lie To lie in ruins - to exist in a state of ruin; lie in wait (for someone or something) - to stay still and hidden, waiting for someone or something.
Foot - Hip - Works - Emit Shoot shoot the works - to do everything; to use everything; Shoot from the hip - to be frank; shoot yourself in the foot - to do or say something stupid which causes problems for you.
Blue-Moon-Blood-Cheese Blue
Pay – One – Pain - Up Back
Ducks – Boat – House - Quarrel Row To get one's ducks in a row - to get one's affairs in order or organized; Row - A boisterous disturbance or quarrel; a brawl.
Air - Load - Compose - Dose Draft Draft - Current of air; draft – load; Draft - Measured portion; Dose; draft – compose.
Hand – Cover - Up - Paper - Bench Back
Duty - Character - Position - Hat Role donning a hat - playing a role
Fresh- Year - good - light New see someone or something in a new light - to understand someone or something in a different way
Diamond - time - Coarse - Unfair Rough
Party - Fall - Fine - Border Line
Reduce - Move - Wear - Rush Tear Reduce to tear; move to tear; wear and tear; Rush / great hurry – tear.
Mind - Hands - Ring – Money Change Ring in the changes - Make the changes.
Doctor - Put - Wheels – Create Spin Spin Doctor - someone who gives a twisted or deviously deceptive version of an event; Spin the wheels - waste time being neutral; spin – create.
Live - Out - Take - Trunk Stock Trunk of a tree is also called “Stock”
Vessel - Think - Built - Container Tank
Back - Action - Life - Develop Spring Spring back - recoil back to a place; spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something; spring to life - to become suddenly alive or
Button - Idea - Early - Shining Bright Bright as a button - intelligent; quick-minded.
Salt - While - Self - Wealth Worth Worth one’s salt - To be effective and efficient; deserving of one's pay.
All - Deaf - Music - Sense Ears
Comical - Bone - Crutch - Money Funny
Blow - Raw - package - Sell Deal To deal something a death blow - to take an action that causes something to end or fail; raw deal - an instance of unfair or bad treatment.
Small - Petty - Scarce – Slight Little
Slip - Safety - Work - Worth Net To slip through the net - to not be caught or dealt with by the system that should be catching or dealing with you.
Agenda - Thin - Heap - Peak Top thin on the top - a man who has very few hair left;
Light - Gradual - Lenient - Loose Easy
Blow - Ground - Tracks - Wrap Cover To cover your tracks - destroy all evidence; blow someone's cover - to reveal someone's true identity; to ruin someone's scheme for concealment; to cover a lot of ground - to deal with much information and many facts.
Number - Rely - Weight - Body Count Body count - number of casualties in a war
Sword - Drama - Game - Foul Queen
Act - Displace - Active – Relocate Move
Jump - Begin - Head – Kick Start
Flip - Throw - Back - Chuck Toss Toss Back - throw back with a quick, light motion
Wild - Time - Biography - Story Life
Intense - Midst - Head – Dense Thick
Seem - Search - care - Forward Look
Dance - Knock - Wire – Water Tap
Rule - Account - Good - Reserve Book
Source - Gas - Driven - Healthy Well Tube well is also known as driven well; she is a well of information - it means source; gas well; Alive and well – living and healthy.
Vanish - Sparrow - Air - Flee Fly
Suffer - Turn - Patience - sleep
Empty - Null - Useless - Gap Void
Summon - Rebound - Mobilise - Gathering Rally
Sway - Boat - Music – Solid Rock
Allow - Exit - Impression – Peace Leave
Out - War - Wolf - Shout Cry
Law -Curve - Deflect - Subdue Bend
Ground - Road - Man - Central Middle
Halt - Test - Retard – Rebuke Check
Clean - God - Catch - Play Act To catch in the act - caught red handed; clean up your act - to stop doing things that other people do not approve of and start to behave in a more acceptable way.
Bits – Fuse – Away - Stack Blow To blow somebody/something to bits - to completely destroy someone or something in an explosion; blow a fuse - to burn out the fuse on an electrical circuit and lose power; blow someone or something away - [for the wind] to carry someone or something away; blow your stack/top - to suddenly become very angry.
Bridge - Dead - Bread - Stream Water
Play - Game - Enough - Straight Fair He caught a blow straight in the head - he caught a blow fair in the head
Teeth - Habit - Bucket - Recoil Kick Kick in the teeth - treating someone badly; to kick the bucket - to die.
Player – up – together - leader Team
Envy - Rub - Grass - Hulk Green The rub of the green - if you have the rub of the green, you have good luck, especially in a sports competition.
Color - Flag - See - Tape Red See red - Get angry
Live - Under - Down - Cable Wire
Obscure - Under - Head - Horizon Cloud If something clouds you mind - it has made it obscure; under the cloud - not trustworthy; Head in the cloud - Day dream; A cloud on the horizon - a problem or difficulty which you expect to happen in the future.
Region - Cover - Virgin - Come Territory To cover the territory - to deal with all matters relating to a specific topic; virgin territory - untouched or unexplored area; to come with the territory – to be expected under circumstances like this.
Religion - Hybrid - Burden - Swords Cross A cross to bear - A burden or trial one must put up with; to cross swords - to become the adversary of someone.
Guard - Space - Tend – Step Watch To tend a flock - watch a flock; watch this space - something that you say which means that you think there will soon be exciting changes in a situation.
Music - Healthy - Deep – Valid Sound
Proceed - Extend - Hat – Come Pass To pass the hat - to collect donations of money from people; proceed- pass; come to pass - to happen.
Snow - Olympics - Season – Hibernate Winter
Hole - Study - skin - Over Pore To pore over something - to look over something carefully; to study hard.
Family - Forest - Wood – Root Trees
Strike - Attack - Nerve - Road Hit To hit a nerve - to upset someone by talking about a particular subject.
Rod - Loyal - Branch - Bind Stick To stick to – to remain loyal to.
Dim - Wither - Vanish – Out Fade
Good - Cross - Function - Serve Purpose To put to good purpose – To put to effective use; at cross purposes - with different intentions.
Price - Standard - face – Utility Value
Leave - Resign - Place – Cease Quit To quit a place - to leave a place.
Distorted - Appear - Hand – Power Loom If something looms over - it means it is a distorted image (loom – to appear frightening).
Situated - Down - Resist - Ground Stand
Against - Worse - Divert - Profit Turn Things take a turn for worse - matters going bad.
Attempt - Hand - Out – Give Try Try hand at - try/attempt something.
Ready - Equip - Study – Ground Prepare To prepare the ground - if you prepare the ground for an activity or a situation, you do something that will help it to happen.
Dissolve - Ice - merge – mouth Melt
Team - Demon - Good – Free Spirit
Eyes - Written - Thank - See Stars To see stars - to seem to see flashing lights after receiving a blow to the head; to thank one's lucky stars - to be thankful for one's luck; stars in your eyes - someone who has stars in their eyes is very excited and hopeful about the future; written in the stars - intended to be.
State - Work - Skill – Fine Art
Surface - Con - Centre – Put Front
Fibre - Cord - Series – Pull String String of events - series of events
Pole - World - Grow - Different Apart
Make - Fall - Out - First Face Face-first - You fall face-first; face out - to endure.
Up - ignition - vital – board Key To key up – to cause anxiety.
Stop - Slack - Bone – Deal Bone To cut to the bone - to cut down severely (on something); cut a deal - to arrange a deal; to negotiate an agreement.
Lenient - Merciful - Frugal - Free Spare To be lenient with – to spare – to be frugal; free time – spare time.
Package - Hurry - Joy - Nerves Bundle To bundle off – to leave in a hurry; bundle of nerves –a very nervous person.
Climb - Organize - Rise – Ascend Mount
Study - Temper - Draw – Bright Quick A bright mind - a quick mind; quick on the draw - able to react quickly to a situation; quick temper – short temper; a quick study - someone who is able to learn things quickly.
Right - balance - effigy - up Hang Hang a right - take a right turn.
Dust - Run - High – Desert Dry
Hard - Pride - Bait - Mumble
Alarm - Death - Run - Red Scare Red scare - fear of communism.
Mistake - Let - Fall – Give Slip To let slip - to say something that you did not intend to say because you wanted to keep it secret
Be - Raise - Throw – Stake Game To raise your game - to make an effort to improve the way that you play a game; to throw a game - to lose a game on purpose.
Surprise - Sudden - Culture – Collide Shock
Move - Increase - improve - Notice Advance
Ears - Circus - True - Hook Ring To ring in someone’s ears - to linger
in one's consciousness; to ring true - to sound or seem true or likely; ring off the hook - to ring incessantly and repeatedly.
Empty - Complete - Block - Draw Blank Blanked off a road - means to block access to that road; to draw a blank – to fail to get a response; to fail to remember something.
Emphasis - Out - Force – Press Stress
Down - Salt - Heaven - Land Earth Down to earth , the salt of the earth - the most worthy of people; a very good or worthy person , Heaven on earth - something extremely good; to move heaven and earth - to do everything you can to achieve something.
Drill - Angles - Aware – Score Know Know the drill - It means to know the usual stuff/routine of something; to know all the angles - to know all the tricks and artifices of dealing with someone or something; to know the score - to know the facts; to know the facts about life and its difficulties.
Guitar – Team – Side - Sticks Pick To pick up sticks - to leave the place where you have been living.
Place - God - Better - Aware Know To know one’s place - to know the behavior appropriate to one's position or status in life; to know better - to be wise enough, experienced enough, or well trained enough not to have done something wrong; better the devil you know - something that you say to mean it is better to deal with a person or thing you know, even if you do not like them, than to deal with a new person or thing who could be even worse.
Decorate - Groom - Kill – Attire Dress
Tent - Black - Fever - Erect Pitch Pitch Black; Pitch a tent - to erect a tent; fever pitch - a sense of intense excitement.
Employee - Army - Help - Lip Service To give / pay lip service to - to say that you agree with and support an idea or plan but not do anything to help it to succeed.
Graze – Symbol – Loan - Cluster Bullet Bullet Loan - is a loan where a payment of the entire principal of the loan,[1] and sometimes the principal and interest,[2] is due at the end of the loan term. Likewise for bullet bond. A bullet loan can be a mortgage, bond, note or any other type of credit; Bullet Cluster - consists of two colliding clusters of galaxies; graze - break the skin (of a body part) by scraping.
Consent - Golden - Break – Suppress Silence Silence is golden; silence means consent – proverb; break the silence - to make a noise interrupting a period
Trail - Tiger - Wall - News Paper paper trail - a series of records that is possible to examine to find out the sequence of things that happen; Paper tiger - a country or organization that seems powerful but is not.
Foot - Messenger - Straight – Film Shoot
Dead - Attention - Circle - Stage Center
Problem - Source - Base - Support Root
Ground - Grave - Make – Change Shift
Empty - Brain - Down – Deplete Drain
Dog - Bite - Sick - Trick Dog Dog eat dog; to teach an old dog new tricks – change longstanding habits or ways, especially of an old person.
Deceptive - Imprudent - Dawn - Start False False dawn - something which seems to show that a successful period is beginning or that a situation is improving when it is not; a false start - a failed attempt to begin an activity or event.
Surpass - Diminish - Downfall - Sun Eclipse to eclipse someone - surpass someone.
Out - Same - Under - Fire Breath To speak under the breath - to whisper.
Present - Strike - Pretend – Ask Pose
Announce - Day - Night – Close Call
Beat - Under - Jump - Great Gun To beat the gun - to manage to do something before the ending signal
Finger - Off - Elate – Soar Lift
Year - Come - Travel – Gentle Light
Leave - Love - Bird – Together Nest
Hard - Ahead - Kill – Travel Go / time going hard on someone; go ahead, going for the kill; travel - go somewhere.
Appeal - Mind - Mouth – Ill Speak
Raise - Top - One – Express Voice
Widen - Period - prolong – Extend Stretch
Hostage - Luck - Success - Fate Fortune Hostage to fortune - could be harmed by things that happen in the future.
Hot - Play - Heart - Large Heavy Hot and heavy - referring to serious passion or emotions; to play the heavy - to act the part of a mean person; to do the unpleasant tasks that no one else wants to do.
Point - Picture - Flash – Long View long view - it means far sighted thinking.
Lie - Gang – Card - Lead Pack Pack of lies - series of lies; to lead the pack - to be first or best of a group.
Point - Lift - Cross – Thumb Finger
Shoot - Fire - Dirty – Magic Work To shoot the works - to do everything; to use everything; to bet all one's money; firework; dirty work; work your magic.
Away - Space - Breath – Land Waste To waste something away - to use
something up wastefully; to dissipate something; waste of space – something that is completely without value; waste of breath - to waste one's time talking; to talk in vain.
Build - Best - Pin - Desire Hope
Granted - Heart - Root - Prisoner Take To take root - to get established; to take no prisoners - to be extremely ruthless with the opposition.
Twilight - Short - Disorder – Over Sleep Twilight sleep - An amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine
Open - Eye - Shop – Down Shut
Right - Under - Clip – Wait Wing To clip someone's wings - crush his/her ambition or freedom; right wing - political term; to take someone under your wings- to mentor them; wait in the wings - be ready or prepared.
Power - Act - Hang – Mental Balance Balance of power – distribution of power; balancing act.
Mark - Ray - Mean – Luck Streak Mean streak - a tendency for a person to do things that are mean; lucky streak / streak of luck - a series of lucky wins in gambling or games.
Nurture - Maid - Cure – Wet Nurse To serve as wet nurse - To treat with excessive care.
Post - Column - Strength – Rule Pillar
Slice - Stone - Statue – Divide Carve Carve up – divide.
Play - Brain - Poster - Love Child Poster child means - someone being a symbol of some ideology.
Speak - Roar - Party – Rant Rave
Treaty - White - Mind – Process Peace Peace process - any social process undertaken by governments who want their citizens to believe they are trying to avoid armed hostilities.
Run - Veer - Nudge – Memory Jog To jog your memory – to cause someone to remember something; veer - To turn sharply – to jog.
Soft - Polite - Gradual – Giant Gentle Gentle giant - someone who is tall & powerful but quiet in nature.
Coast - Honor - stand – Old Guard
Slip - Boat - Fire - Trick Miss To miss a trick - lose opportunity; to miss fire - Fail to achieve the anticipated result; to miss the boat – to be ignorant; to have made an error; to be wrong.
Whistle - Body - Steam – Kiss Blow Blow off steam / let off steam - to do or say something that helps you get rid of strong feelings or energy; a body blow - something that causes serious difficulty or disappointment.
Property - Contract - Life – Out Lease
Leg - Hand - Fair - Down Shake Fair shake - fair chance.
Life - Live - Scale – By Large By and large; larger than life; live large; large scale
Polish – Sin – Pie – Eye [A]salvation [B]Apple [C]Chart [D]Potato [E]Shoe
Apple Apple polish - to obtain favors, especially by flattery; sin-apple is regarded sinful (Adam and eve ref); apple of my eye - someone, that one cherishes above all.
Carnation – Prime - Pierce [A]Soul [B]Pluck [C]Dark [D]Pink [E]Red
Pink Carnation - a pink tint or pink flower; Prime of health - in pink health; Pink - to prick with a knife or such thing meaning as Pierce.
Count – Clean – Brown [A]chicken [B]broom [C]nose
Nose Nose count- It is the count of population; Keep your nose clean is keep out of trouble; A brown nose is someone who sticks up to you for a favour.
Man - Spring - Piece – Course Action Man of action - one who believes in taking quick action without much contemplation; spring into action - to suddenly start something; piece of action - involvement in a successful thing; course of action - plan for things to do.
Part - Lion - way - Fair Share
Slow - Block - Suppress – Jam Choke
Hall - Food - Intrude – Muddle Mess Muddle - A disordered condition; a mess or jumble
Go - Die - Vary – Divert Depart Go - Die - Vary – Divert
Fly - Offend - Suffer – Anguish Hurt Not hurt a fly - not injure or upset anyone or anything.
Bent - Good - Whip – Take Shape Whip into shape- to put something into good condition, possibly with considerable effort.
Condition - Food - Rank – Tall Order Order - A condition of regular or proper arrangement.
Drop - Direct - Roll – Die Cast The die is cast - when a decision has been made.
Cat – Wheel – Vamp – Model [A]villain [B]Ramp [C]cart [D]house [E] pot
Ramp Catwalk on the ramp; wheelchair ramp - inclined plane for wheel chairs; Vamp and Ramp (Phonetics); A model walks on the ramp.
Wind Windbag - a person who talks a lot but says little of any value; wind resistance - type of drag (physics); wind and curve are synonyms; wind sail - a sail used in ships , sail near the wind is an idiom
Turn - Round - Wall – Work Clock To turn the clock back - to try to return to the past; like clockwork - With machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly.
Scar - Crack - Joint – Burst Seam / open
To burst at the seams - to be very full and burst.
Chance - Rain - Run – Gamble Risk Risk of rain (idiom) - a chance of precipitation.
Tight - Full - Draw – Horse Rein
Dead - Cold - Out – Off Knock
Time - Long - Name – Come Term To come to terms with - to start to accept and deal with a difficult situation.
Mental - Money - Book – Swap Note Notebook; Currency notes constitute money; You swap notes; Mental note (when you remember something important, you make a mental note of it).
Rob - Love - Luck – Faith Blind
Vitamin - Sleep - Bitter – On Pill
Right - Stand - Prison – Political Correct Stand Corrected; Politically correct; Prison - Correction Home.
Business - Lean - Man – consequence Mean A man/woman of means -someone who has a lot of money; lean and mean - fit and ready for hard, efficient work; Mean business - someone who is direct and focused.
Hit - Out - Talk – Ghost Town Hit the town; Out of town; talk of the town; Ghost town - A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.
Offence - Paltry - Streak – Denote Mean Mean no offence; Mean streak; Mean directly means to denote; No mean amount – Paltry.
Product - Back - Story – Dead End
Obscure - Secret - Evil – Horse Dark
Cock – Mock - Pick Tail
Dead - Knock - Forest – Coal Wood Wood coal - a type of coal which is made by partially burning wood.
Make - Burst - Behind – Crime Scene Burst on to the scene - suddenly becoming famous.
Point - Back - Reflect – Instant Flash
Time - Tire - Expense – Mercy Spare
Story - Big - Cold – Search Fish Fish for something - Search for something; Fish story - very big lie.
Card - Hole - Out – Hold Ace Ace out - to have good luck; ace in the hole - something important held in reserve.
Down - Man - Easy – Smart Street Down the street; street smart; Man of the street - common man; easy street - in a state of financial independence and comfort.
Death - Free - Charge – Bridge Toll
Room - Wear - Erode – Hand Wash
Touch - Fulfill - Play – Pace Keep Keep in touch; Play for the keeps - to do things with permanent effect; keep the promise / word – fulfill.
Quiet - Spin - Corpse – Serious Grave
Eat - Bullet - Dust – Tongue Bite To bite the dust – to die; to break; to
fail; to give out; Bite your tongue - an expression said to someone who has just stated an unpleasant supposition that unfortunately maybe true.
Nose - Way - Tip – Spend Lead To lead by the Nose - to make someone forcefully do something; Lead the way; Lead a life of misery - Spend a life of misery; the police has got a tip – the police has got a lead.
Time - Luck - Genius – Ego Stroke Stroke - means a particular time of the day; stroke of luck; stroke of genius; stroke of ego – ego boost.
Answer - Back - Stand – Down Pat Pat answer - a quick, easy answer; a simplified or evasive answer; stand pat - to refuse to make any changes.
Meal - Big - Just – summon Ticket A meal ticket - something that you use as a way of getting regular amounts of money for the rest of your life; just the ticket - to be just the perfect thing; big ticket - very expensive; ticket – legal summon.
Extend - Accord - Sky – Achieve Reach
Law - Ordinary - Typical – Above Average The law of averages - the probability that you will get one result about the same number of times as another if you do something often enough; typically – on an average.
Knots - Value - Crime – Birth Rate Rate of knots - very quick.
Pair - Link - Few - Marriage Couple
Subdue - Press - Crowd – Proof Crush Crush a revolt - subdue revolt; a great crowd – Crush; Crush - proof ; just like bullet proof;
Connect - Lines - Cot – On Dot
Pawn - Chop - Talk – List Shop Chop shop - A place where stolen cars are disassembled for parts that are then sold; Talk shop - it means to talk about your work.
Rose - Nail - Death – Sleep Bed
Home - Close - Grant – First Quarter Grant no Quarter - show no mercy; in close quarters - in a small area together with others.
Domino - Take - Snowball – Result Effect
Home - Speak - Street – Returns Address
Tolerate - Still - View – intact Stand
Blow - Change - Full – Things Swing
Over – Up – Suppose - Feet Think
tune - mess - charge – sleazy Fine
shoes - endure - breath – straw last
Hate - Snail - Bulk – Fan Mail
Blade - Under - Stab – Twist Knife To twist the knife - to do or say something to make a situation worse.
Flow - Rain - Swarm – Heart Pour
Gain - Lose - Land – Below Ground
Unusual - Number - Ends – Unmatched Odd
Life - Air - Eggs – Pace Walk Walk on eggs - same as walk on thin ice - means to be very cautious.
Band - Life - Line – Over Party Life of the party and party is over; Band and party - both means a group
Bleed - Elephant - Knight – Snow White Bleed someone white - to take all of someone's money; to extort money from someone.
Sheet - Coat - Ban – Cover Blanket
Last - Ultimate - Curtain - Straw Final
Nuance - Screen - Reduce - Trace Shade Nuance - means subtle change same as shades; Shade the price - Reduce the price; shade of vinegar – traces of vinegar.
End - Exhaust - Bag – Pipes Fag Fag - Bag (Phonetics); Fag - an exhausting job; Fag end - its the last piece of cigarette which people throw; Fag - to have a smoke as in Pipe smoking.
tolerate - butterfly - ache – knots Stomach Stomach is in knots - Feeling of being Nervous; Stomach - To Tolerate or to bear someone or something.
Fragrance - On feet – Revolt - Sore Rose
Draft – Rely – Border - World Bank
Give - Peace - History – Lay Rest Give it a rest; Rest in peace; Rest is History; Lay to rest.
souvenir - Sign - Gesture – Symbol Token Token Gesture - to do the minimum required.
Fruit - Skin - Republic – Go Banana
Pink - Tie - Missing - Cuff Link
Pay - Ship - Civil – Martial Court
Love - Story - Cheap – Dog Life life is cheap - it means people's lives have little value so if they die it is not important; it's a dog's life - something that you say which means that life is hard and unpleasant.
Chance - good wishes – divide Break break a leg-good wishes, get a break-chance, break a team-divide
Detective – Medium – Supply Agency
Jump – mattress – water Spring
Organization – train - on Board
Gather - Done - Cut – Corpse Dust To gather dust - [for something] to sit unused for a long time; done and dusted; Corpse of a dead man is also called Dust.
Law – Shine – Throw Out
Blue - High – Light Sky
Barrier – Beat – Safe – Waves Sound
Mark – Union – Trick – Money Trade
Stand - Time - Engine – Green Stall Stall the time - to delay something; green stall - where vegetables are sold.
Touch - Lose - Sink – Origin Trace trace - A barely perceivable indication; a touch; trace - sink without trace - to be forgotten about completely, after being popular for a while; lose trace - to fail to maintain a way of finding someone or something.
Feel – Strike – Hammer – Stretch Home hammer home - to try extremely hard to make someone understand or realize something; Home stretch - last part of any difficult activity.
Arrange - Period - Take – Phase Stage Take stage; Arrange an invasion - stage an invasion.
Surge - Heat - Ride – Curve Wave Ride the wave - to make use of a popular opinion,, like politicians often do.
