| Be all ears | Listen very attentively | پوری توجہ سے سننا |
| Of course, I want to know – I am all ears! | ||
| Answer the call of nature | Go to the toilet | رفع حا جت کے لیے جانا |
| I had to get up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature. | ||
| Badger someone into | Persistently nag or pester someone to do something pressurize | کسی کو کچھ کرنے کے لیے مجبور کرنا |
| Saadia badgered her parents into buying her a new computer. | ||
| Bare your heart or soul | Revel your innermost thoughts and feelings | دل کا حال سنانا |
| Ali couldn’t keep things to himself any longer. He decided to bare his soul to his father. | ||
| Beat a hasty retreat | To retreat or withdraw very quickly |
جلدی میں پیچھے ہٹنا |
| The thief beat a hasty retreat as soon as he saw the security officer. | ||
| One’s best bet | The action most likely to succeed |
بہترین چال /بہترین ترکیب |
| Your best bet would be to try calling him at home. | ||
| Bide your time | Wait for a good opportunity | مناسب موقع یا وقت کا انتظار کرنا |
| He’s not hesitating; he’s just biding his time, waiting for the prices to drop. | ||
| Bite the hand that feeds you | Be unfriendly or do harm to someone who is kind to you | جس تھالی میں کھانا اسی میں چھید کرنا |
| Going against the wishes of your benefactor is like biting the hand that feeds you. | ||
| Blot one’s copy –book | Do something to spoil one’s good record or reputation | اپنے پاؤں میں کلہاڑی مارنا |
| He blotted his copy –book when he was arrested for speeding. | ||
| Break every rule in the book | Behave in an unacceptable way | غلط یا ناجائز طریقے سے کچھ کرنا |
| Our competitors obtained the contract by breaking every rule in the book. | ||
| Breathe down neck | Watch someone closely and make him feel uncomfortable | سر پر سوار ہونا /مکمل نگرانی کرنا |
| The boss keeps breathing down our necks all the time. | ||
| Bring home the bacon | To earn a salary | کمائی کرنا |
| Go out and get a job so you can bring home the bacon. | ||
| Brush up on something | To review something | نظر ثانی کرنا |
| I think I should brush up on English before I go to the UK. | ||
| Buckle down to something | To settle down to something | منسلک ہوجانا/بھر پور دینا |
| If you don’t buckle down to your job, you’ll be fired. | ||
| Build bridge | صلح یا سمجھوتا کروانا | |
| Arif is trying to build bridges between Ali and Aliyah. | ||
| Build castle in the air | To daydream; to make plans that can never come true | دن میں خواب دیکھنا/ خیالی پلاؤ پکانا |
| Amana spends most of his time building castle in the air. | ||
| Bungle things up | Make a mess of task or a job; to do everything wrong | کام بگاڑ دینا |
| I am afraid I have made a mess of a job and bungled everything up. | ||
| Burn one ‘s bridge | Make an irreparable blunder | سنگین غلطی کرنا/ خود کو نا قابل تلافی نقصان پہچانا |
| If you drop out of school now, you‘ll be burning you bridge. | ||
| Burn the candle at both ends | To work very hard and stay up very late at night | رات گئے سخت محنت کرنا |
| Asim looks exhausted – I’ll bet he’s been burning the candle at both ends lately. | ||
| Burn the midnight oil | To stay up working, especially studying, late at night | رات گئے محنت کرنا یا پڑھنا |
| If you burn the midnight oil night after night, you’ll become ill | ||
| Burn your fingers | Suffer financially due to foolish behavior | اپنی غلطی مالی اٹھانا |
| Jamil got his fingers burnt playing on the stock market. | ||
| Bury head in sand | Ignore or hide from obvious danger | نظرے یا حققیت سے نظریں چرانا |
| Don’t bury your head in the sand. We’ve got a serious problem on our hands. | ||
| Bury the hatchet | To stop fighting or arguing; to end old resentments | صلح کرنا/ اختلافات ختم کرنا |
| I didn’t agree with him, however, I decided to bury the hatchet. | ||
