English Essay CSS Topicwise Papers – Idioms

Idioms

1. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
   2015: Anticipation is often greater than the realization
   2015: Punctuality is virtue of bored
   2015: Luxury of predecessors becomes the necessity of successors
2. Can meaning be fixed?
3. If gold rust what shall the iron do?
4. Beggars cannot be choosers.
5. Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
6. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
7. ‘Brain, Like Hearts, Go Where They Are Appreciated’
8. ‘There Comes A Time To Put Aside Principles And Do What’s Right’
9. ‘We Grown Too Old Soon And Too Late Smart’
10. ‘Every Solution Breeds New Problems’
11. “A long Dispute means that both parties are wrong”
12. “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes”.
13. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
14. Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
15. He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed.

16. “The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm”

17. Sweet are the uses of adversity.

18. “We never know the worth’ of water till the well is dry
19. “If you wish the sympathy of broad manes, then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things”
20. “The cream rises to the top, so does the scum”.
21. Piety at public expense
22. Pleasure of idleness.
23. The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift
24. Nothing is so self-blinding as self-righteousness.
25. Procrastination is the thief of time.
26. Full many a flower is born to unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
27. ‘Man proposes and God disposes’.
28. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind. As man’s ingratitude.
29. Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is greater.
30. There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
31. “Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.”
32. Sweet are the uses of adversity.
33. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
34. “Blessings and Joys of Adversity”.
35. “There is tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune”.
36. All that glitters is not gold.
37. Small is Beautiful.
38. If winter comes, can spring be far behind
39. A living dog is better than a dead lion
40. Necessity is the mother of invention