Dear gradians,
Today we are posting Idioms & Phrases beginning with “M”. we hope you liked the previous articles. Here’s a small task for you guys post idioms and phrases which you come across that has not been covered here and ask for sentences from others. This would boost your prep and make this more interesting and interactive. So here is a list of Idioms and Phrases with M:
Important Idioms and Phrases starting with “M”
Idioms and Phrases | Meaning | Sentence |
Make a clean breast of | To confess | He made a clean breast of his crime. |
Make one's way | Advance in life by one's own efforts. | He had to make his own way in the world as his family was very poor. |
Man in the street | An ordinary person | Ram is a man in the street. |
Man of his word | One who keeps his promises. | Sandeep by helping me proves that he is a man of his word. |
Man of straw | A weak person. | When his wife needed his support, he runs away and left her facing all the problems all alone. That is why; she called him a man of straw after all. |
Mark my words | Listen to me | Mark my words; this boy is going to become a great ruler. |
Marry money | To marry a rich person | She married Sandeep Ambani and got rich. |
Meet one's death | To die. | A friend of mine met his death when he got hit by a train. |
Minting it | Earning a lot of money quickly. | The company is minting it is only due to the new manager. |
Miss the boat | To fail to take advantage of an opportunity. | A good business opportunity comes in ram’s life but ram misses the boat. |
Maiden voyage
| The first voyage of a ship or boat | The maiden voyage of the Titanic ship was very popular |
Make a beeline for | To hurry directly toward someone or something | When ram enters a party, he always makes a beeline for the dessert section. |
Make a comeback | To return to one's former (successful) career or situation | Yuvraj Singh makes a comeback in world cup tournament after a lot of hard work. |
Make a difference | To cause a change in a situation | It does not make a difference whether our boss comes to the meeting or not. |
Make a fool out of | To make someone look foolish | The secretary made a fool out of her boss when she criticized him at the meeting. |
Make a fuss | To worry about | My grandmother always makes a fuss over me when I visit her. |
Make eyes at | To flirt with someone, to look at someone to try and attract him or her | The boy was making eyes at the girl in math class. |
Make a mountain out of a molehill | Make a fuss | Don’t worry, it is just a small scratch, you are making a mountain out of a molehill. |
Make ends meet | To have adequate money to survive on | We will need to start saving money in order to make ends meet |
Note: if you have missed out on previous articles on Idioms and Phrases then you can check:
Important Idioms and Phrases for CDS Exam
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Team BYJU'S Exam Prep
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