Saturday 25 February 2017

Hindi Language

मील का पत्थर  = a milestone

अपने पैरों पर खड़ा होना - (स्वालंबी होना) - युवकों को अपने पैरों पर खड़े होने पर ही विवाह करना चाहिए ।

मूरत =muhurtham
sur sur thulasi shashi 
feast=  दावत
नीयत =इच्छा

Sunday 19 February 2017

Mish Mash in English

1.bouncebackability
2.supercalifragilsticexpialidocious
3.wax eloquence on
4.chronic worry
5 cardinal sin
6.yeoman's service
7.inordinate delay
8.ignited another spell of fury
9.stem the rot
10.dreadful revelations
11.proverbial tip of the iceberg
12.sordid tale
13.harrowing tale
14.common thread
15.bound to blow the lid off the sordid tale
16.stride like a colossus
17.leave an indelible mark on the country's polity
18.malleability
19.stellar performance
20.passing on the reins
21.interjected
22.grapple with
23.snub
24.keep abreast of
25.propel one to greater heights
26.at the helm of affairs
27.mull over = brood over,ruminate
28.forte
29.milestone
30.bids adieu=bids farewell
31.political expediency
32.manmade factors have escalated the magnitude of floods
33.tantamount to
34.flog a dead horse
35.inadvertent faux pas
36.bites the hand that feeds you
37.lost cause
38.precarious
39.speculative
40.construed
41.off the cuff remark
42.undiplomatic
43.take the mantle of power
44.benevolent nature
45.eulogizing
46.albeit
47.It is disconcerting to note that
48.incite communal strife on the issue
49.heralded a new revolution in the IT sector
50.airing its patriotic credentials
51.it continues to tom tom the exclusion
52.in a desperate attempt to keep the flock toghether
53.deja vu
54.sitting on the fence
55.singing patriotic credentials
56.it breaks my heart to see
57.Assam is confronted with multifarious problems
58.standard practice
59.the much awaited
60.cunning manipulator
61.a million dollar question
62.a pain in the neck
63.antidiluvean- ridiculously old fashioned
64.bite the bullet
65.dime a dozen
66.the elephant in the room
67.cut the mustard
68.you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
69.when pigs fly
70.a red rag to a bull
71.geo politics
72.can't be giving a know it all gesture
73.as clear  as day
74.on the anvil
75.barrage of questions
76.ominous signs
77.sans rhyme or reason
78.The proof the pudding is in the eating
79.call a spade a spade
80.horror of horrors
81.mired in controversy
82.motor skills
83.it is warped logic
84.pay a pittance
85.daunting task= uphill task or arduous task
86.discombobulated = upset  or confused
87.hoodwinking = betraying or cheating
88.piloted a language course
89.still waters run deep
90.a bitter pill
91.soothing strains
92fallacy =
93.A Priori
94.entity
95.hermaneutics
96.Zeitgeist
97.axiom
98.syllogism
99.tabala rasa
100.ontology
101.dialectics
102.inductive/deductive reasoning
103.positive/descriptive/normative
104.Free Will
105.aesthetics
106.epistemology
107.metaphysics
108.empirical
109.agnostic
110.epicurianism
111.expressionism
112.formalism
113.hedonism
114.dialectic materialism
115.Marxism
114.new historism
115.humanism
116.modernism/post modernism
117.nihilism
118.pacifism
119.pragmatism
120.romanticism
121.structuralism
122.surrealism
123.transcendentalism
124.pantheism
125.utilitarianism
126.political suicide
127.Gerrymander
128.fishing expeditiodn
129.GOP=grand old party
130.demagogue
131.checks and balances
132.psephology
133.bipartisan
134.silent majority
135.exit poll
136.suffragette
137.agrarian society
139.charisma
140.coercion
141.cohort
142.cult
143.phobia=fear
144.cursory look
145.fritter away the golden opportunity
 146.as busy as a bee
147.like a cat on hot bricks/like a cat on tin roof
148.mutton dressed as lamb
149.play truant/hookey
150.hale and hearty
151.in the pink of health
152dilly dally
153nilly willy
154shilly shally
155.hustle and bustle
156 hurly and burly
157 hurry burry
158 ring something in my ears
159 make a hue and cry = make a hungama
160.as fit as a fiddle=hale and hearty
161.fantabulous
162.marked in the sands of time
2.chill out
Lets chill out with some nice delicacies.
3.brunch
He is having his brunch as he got up late
4.modus operandi
Would you mind telling me the modus operandi of this camera?
5.foodie = a gourmet
He is such a foodie he relishes all sorts of food
6.nippy - chilly
It is a bit nippy mate?
7.Mockney=making fun of cockney

The film My Fair Lady has several instances of cockney and mockney.
8.Creme de la creme
9.Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
10.Pearls of wisdom

The lecture was so enlightening that it gave pearls of wisdom.
11. minging = foul smelling,unpleasant
The weather was minging.
12.minger - an unattractive and unpleasant person
13.wicked (slang)=very good ,excellent,cool,awesome
The Bollywood movie I saw yesterday was wicked.
14.muck around = idle away time,mess around
Instead of studying ,the kids are mucking around here.
why are you mucking around here?
15.murky
16.knee jerk reaction
genesis
violence has its genesis in a recent incident
hard  bullet  to bite
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