Idioms starting with B

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Idioms starting with B - Set 2

Not quite remember

I easily remember

Bat your eyes

To open and close your eyes quickly, in a way that is supposed to be attractive

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People all have different ideas about what is beautiful

Beat about the bush

To talk about something for a long time without coming to the main point

Bite off more than you can chew

To try to do too much, or something that is too difficult

Blood is thicker than water

Family relationships are stronger than any others

Bite your lip

To stop yourself from saying something or from showing an emotion

Be looking over your shoulder

To be anxious and have the feeling that somebody is going to do something unpleasant or harmful to you

Better late than never

"Used especially when you, or somebody else, arrive/arrives late, or when something such as success happens late, to say that this is better than not coming or happening at all"

Back to the drawing board

To start thinking about a new way of doing something after a previous plan or idea has failed

Birds of a feather flock together

People of the same sort are found together

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