English Grammar: Idioms English Grammar: Idioms


English Grammar: IdiomsEnglish Grammar: Idioms



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  • A cat and dog life : To lead a life full of quarrels
  • A cold fish : A person devoid of emotions
  • A daredevil : A person who does not care for any consequences
  • A deadlock : A position when no progress can be made
  • Alive and kicking : Active and healthy
  • At sea : Confused or lost
  • Be in a tight corner : In a very difficult situation
  • Behind one’s back : In the absence of
  • Cat and dog life : Life full of quarrels
  • Cock and bull story : Made up story that one should not believe
  • Cry for the moon : Ask for the impossible
  • Double : dealing : Deceiving
  • Have a card up one’s sleeve : Have a secret plan in reserve
  • Like a cat on hot bricks : Very nervous
  • Run over : to drive over
  • Run through : to squander or waste
  • Tell against : To prove adverse to; to go against
  • To bell the cat : To face the risk
  • To break the ice : To break the silence
  • To burn one’s fingers : To lose on account of foolish behavior
  • To call a spade a spade : To be frank and truthful
  • To cross the Rubicon : To take a decisive step
  • To die hard : Change with great difficulty
  • To eat humble pie : To apologise in a humble manner
  • To fight a losing battle : Struggle without hope of success
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Chandrayaan

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Chandrayaan, series of Indian lunar space probes. Chandrayaan-1 (chandrayaan is Hindi for "moon craft") was the first lunar space probe of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and found water on the Moon. It mapped the Moon in infrared, visible, and X-ray light from lunar orbit and used reflected radiation to prospect for various elements, minerals, and ice. It operated in 2008–09. Chandrayaan-2, which launched in 2019, was designed to be ISRO’s first lunar lander.


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Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008, from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Bulgaria. .

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Facts about Hormones in humans

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The following is a list of hormones found in Homo sapiens.


മാസ്റ്റര്‍ ഗ്രന്ഥി എന്നറിയപ്പപെടുന്നത്‌ പീയുഷ ഗ്രന്ഥി.
യുവത്വ ഗ്രന്ഥി എന്നറിയപ്പെടുന്നത്‌ തൈമസ്‌. തൈമോസിനാണ്‌ യുവത്വഹോര്‍മോണ്‍.
ഐലറ്റ്‌സ്‌ ഓഫ്‌ ലാ൯ഗര്‍ഹാന്‍സ്‌ ഉത്പാദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഹോര്‍മോണുകളാണ്‌ ഇന്‍സുലിന്‍, ഗ്ലൂക്കഗോണ്‍ എന്നിവ. രക്തത്തില്‍ ഗ്ലൂക്കോസിന്റെ അളവ്‌ സ്ഥിരമായി നിലനിര്‍ത്തുന്നത്‌ ഈ ഹോര്‍മോണുകളാണ്‌.
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Nicknames of Indian Freedom Fighters

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Nicknames Leaders .
Bapuji Mahatma Gandhi .
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore .
Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore .
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose .
Prince of Patriots Subhash Chandra Bose .
Loknayak Jayaprakash Naraynan .
Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .
Chachaji Jawaharlal Nehru .
Grand Old man of India Dadabhai Naoroji .
Father of Indian Unrest Dadabhai Naoroji .
Indian Gladstone Dadabhai Naoroji .
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das .
Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak .
Maratha Kesari Balgangadhar Tilak .
Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai .
Punjab Lion Ranjith Singh .
Bengal Kesari Ashutosh Mukherji .
Bihar Kesari Dr. Srikrishna Singh ....

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