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Dictionary of English Idioms: Vocabulary Building

Manik Joshi

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Useful English Idioms -- B

  • the bee's knees -- a perfect thing or person
  • go belly up -- to fail altogether
  • big cheese -- a very important person in a large community a big fish -- a very important person in a small community

Useful English Idioms -- C

  • the carrot and the stick approach -- to decide to reward or punish somebody in order to make them do something