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1 | ABACK | ||
Taken aback | حیران ہو جانا | Aslam was taken aback to see me on his boat. | |
2 | ABANDON | ||
Abandon oneself | رغبت ہونا | I cannot abandon myself to drive. | |
3 | ABC | ||
ABC | ابتدائی علم | She is still learning the ABC of higher life. | |
4 | ABIDE | ||
Abide by | پابندی کرنا | He shall abide by the rules of the school. | |
5 | ABLE | ||
Able bodied | مضبوط /قوی | There is a need for able- bodied youth in the defence services. | |
6 | ABLOOM | ||
Abloom | کھل جانا کھلے ہونا | Nature is abloom in spring. | |
7 | ABORTIVE | ||
Abortive effort | ناکام کوشش | It’s useful to be successful in one game than making abortive efforts in all games. | |
8 | ABOUND | ||
Abound | کثرت میں | The river aboundes in fish. | |
9 | ABOUT | ||
About ship | مخالف سمت میں | Quaid about-Shipped the British Empire. | |
To be about | کچھ کرنے لگنا، وجہ بننا | The policeman caught the man when he was about to pick a pocket. | |
Come about | ہونا {کچھ بھیَ} | Whatever may come about, I must have this project. | |
Out and about | نارمل ہونا | After a long illness my father is at last out and about. | |
Go about | تیار ہونا | Please go about your business instead of passing your time. | |
10 | ABOVE | ||
Above board | صاف ستھرا | Your actions should be above board. | |
Above ali | بڑھ کر {سب سے} | He is very gentle and honest, but above all, he is very hard-working. | |
Above criticism | تنقید سے بالا تر | No human being is above criticism. | |
Above one’s station | اوقات سے بڑھ کر | He may try his best but the post is de-finitely above his station. | |
Above ground | زندگی میں | Everybody want something to live by while he is above ground. | |
Above mentioned | پیشگی تذکرہ | Please onside the above-mentioned questions immediately. | |
To live above one’s means | چادر سے زیادہ پاؤں پھیلانا | Only the foolish live above their means. | |
Above one s under standing | سمجھ سے بالا تر | His talk is always above one’s under standing. | |
Over and above | اضافی طور پر | Over and above this issue I want to discuss some other issues too. | |
Above oneself | مفرور ہونا | She was above herself when got the news that she topped the list in the CSS competition. | |
11 | ABRA CADABRA | ||
Abracadabra | بے معنی عقل سے بالا تر | The talk between two scientific experts was all abracadabra to me. | |
12 | ABREAST | ||
Abreast | پہلو بہ پہلو | The youth much march abreast with ideas. | |
13 | ABROAD | ||
Abroad | کافی آگے/دور | Monsoon is too abroad. | |
14 | ABSENCE | ||
Absence of mind | غائب دماغی | She could not do well in history paper because of absence of mind. | |
15 | ABSENT | ||
Absent-minded | غائب دماغ/غیر متوجہ | An absent- minded person is never successful in his Life. | |
Out of sight out of mind | آنکھ اوجھل پہاڑ اوجھل | Please write me as soon as you reach Lahore do not be out of sight, out of mind. | |
16 | ABSEY | ||
Absey book | تھوڑا سا علم ہونا | The IB is still in the absey book about Murtaza’s Murder. | |
17 | ABSOLUTE | ||
Absolute alcohol | مکمل ناکافی | Absolute alcohol is dangerous for your body. | |
Absolute zero | خود سر | For millions of people in the world success is an absolute zero. | |
18 | ABSORB | ||
Absorb | ڈوبا ہوا | When I reached home I found my brother absorbed in studies. | |
19 | ABSTAIN | ||
Abstain from | پرہیز کرنا | You should abstain from smoking. | |
20 | ABSTRACT | ||
To abstract a thing from | نکال لینا | I have abstracted every coin from my bank account. | |
21 | ABUNDANCE | ||
Abundance of the heart | کھلے دل سے | People supported the cause of CBN with abundance of the heart. | |
22 | ABUZZ | ||
Abuzz | حرکت میں | The hall was abuzz in the concert. | |
23 | ACCEDE | ||
Accede to | قبول کرنا | After much persuasion the boss acceded to my request. | |
24 | ACCEPT | ||
Accept one’s hand of friendship | دوستی کا ہاتھ بڑھانا/قبول کرنا | Pakistan has always accepted a hand of friendship from every country. | |
Acceptable to | قابل قبول | The amount of discount demanded you is not acceptable to me. | |
25 | ACCEPTANCE | ||
Acceptance | تصدیق | The acceptance of our proposals from Messrs Parry & Co. has duly been received. | |
26 | ACCESS | ||
Access to | رسائی | Do you have any access to the minister? | |
27 | ACCOMPLISH | ||
Accomplished in | ماہر ہونا | Raju is accomplished in singing. | |
Accomplished | ماہر | Our professor is an accomplished scholar. | |
28 | ACCORD | ||
With one accord | مکمل اتحاد سے | Election of Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan’s Prime Minister was one accord of the PPP. | |
Of one’s own accord | اپنے زور بازو سے | One should try everything of his own accord. | |
29 | ACCORDANCE | ||
In accordance with | مطابق | To perform in accordance with law is always a safe thing. | |
30 | ACCORDING | ||
According as | منحصر | The success in the examination depends according as the student prepares for the same. | |
According to | مطابق | I completed he assignment according to the professors instructions. | |
31 | ACCOUNT | ||
Call to/bring to account | وضاحت طلب کرنا | The National Assembly called Zardari to account for the import licenses scandal. | |
To find one’s account | فائدہ لینا | An officer finds his account in whatever he does for you in his routine. | |
Go to one’s long account | مرجانا | The Railway minister has gone to his long account. | |
Hold to account | ذمے دار ہونا | Opposition is held to account for all troubles in the country. | |
Account with, in | کاروباری تعلق | The Rahman Publishers are in account with most of the booksellers in the country. | |
Make account of | اہمیت دینا | A saint can’t make account of wordly possessions. | |
Account of, on | وجہ سے | She was fined on account of his absence from the college. | |
On no account | بغیر وجہ | A teacher should not beat the student on no account. | |
Take into account | سوچنا | The judge must take into account the nature of the crime before taking into task. | |
Take no account of | نظر انداز کرنا | A modern teacher takes no account of boyish pranks in the class. | |
To turn to good account | فائدہ اٹھانا | You must turn to good account any opportunity that comes your way. | |
Account for | وضاحت دینا | You will have to account for your negligence. | |
On account | پیشگی رقم | A cheque for RS.2000/- from S.A salam & Co. is received on account, the balance will be received in due course. | |
To turn to account | سود مند بنانا | Wise men turn to account even their misfortunes. | |
To be account | محترم | Zardari was accounted high in the Court of Zaman. | |
To close an account with | مالی تعلق ختم کرنا | We have closed an account with the MCB. | |
To open an account with | مالی تعلق شروع کرنا | We have opened an account wigh the Habib Bank Ltd. | |
On one’s account | اپنی ذمہ داری پر | I may remind you once again that everything you are doing as entirely on your own account. | |
To square on account | برابر کرنا {اکاؤنٹ} | By payment of Rs.600/- to us your accounts will be squared up fully. | |
32 | ACE | ||
Ace | ممتاز کامیابی والے | Many ace pilots die in this war. | |
With an ace of | بال بال | After the motor accident he had to escape with an ace of death. | |
33 | ACID | ||
Acid | چبھتا ہوا | He made an acid remark. He is a man of acid nature. This is the acid test of your character. | |
Acid test | تنقیدی امتحان | The trials, troubles and tribulations are the acid test of your character. | |
34 | ACOCK | ||
Acock | بدسلوکی / سر مزاجی | The prime Minister finds the opposition acock in the parliament. | |
35 | ACQUAINT | ||
To be acquainted with | شناسا ہونا | He is acquainted with all the details of the problem. | |
Acquired character | حقیقت میں اچھا ہونا | True greatness in an acquired character. | |
36 | ACQUIT | ||
Acquit oneself of | فرض سے فارغ ہونا | He acquitted himself of marrying daughter. | |
Acquit oneself | ثابت کرنا | The soldier acquitted himself in the battle. | |
37 | ACROSS | ||
Come across | ملنا | I came across an old friend in the bazar. | |
Get across | لوگوں پر اثر کرنا | His speech did not get across in the parliament. | |
Put it or get is across | قابل قبول کرنا/منانا | The bridegroom was unwilling to marry; but his uncle got it across to him. | |
38 | ACT | ||
Act of God | خدائی کام | Ranning is an act of God. | |
To act | رویہ رکھنا/سلوک کرنا | Students are taught to act properly in schools. | |
Act of grace | معافی سے | He was saved from death by an act of grace. | |
Act on | عمل کرنا | We have acted on your advice. | |
Act up to | انجام دینا/پورا کرنا | The soldiers die acting up to higher sense of patriotism. | |
To act upon | ماننا/عمل کرنا | Always act upon the advice of elders. | |
39 | ACTION | ||
To put action | عمل میں رہنا | If the Pakistani Plans were put in action to the extent they are on paper, the economy of Pakistan would have improved to a great extent. | |
Man of action | عملی آدمی | Quaid was a man of action. | |
40 | ACTIVE | ||
Active service | میدان جنگ میں | Many soldiers die on active service. | |
41 | ADAM | ||
Old as Adam | پرانے قصوں سے | There are a lorge number of historical places in Pakistan which are as old as Adam. | |
Not known from Adam | علم نہ دینا | I have not known from Adam your friend Mr. Kamran. | |
42 | ADD | ||
To add fuel to the fire | جلتی پر تیل ڈالنا | Samuel's way of speech always adds fuel to the fire. | |
To add insult to injury | زخموں پر نمک چھڑکنا | An abuse always adds insult to injury. | |
43 | ADDICT | ||
Addict to | عادی ہونا | My friend is addicted to liquor. | |
44 | ADDLE | ||
Addle brained, addle-headed addle pated | خالی الذہن | Many addle- headed people manage to get into the Parliament. | |
Addle egg | مفرور | My father-in-law is an addle-egg. | |
45 | ADHERE | ||
Adhere to | چپک جانا | One should adhere to one’s principles. | |
46 | AD HOC | ||
Ad hoc | خاص مقصد کے لئے | From time to time ad hoc committees are formed to examine the cost of living in the country. | |
47 | ADIEU | ||
To bid adieu | خدا حافظ کہنا | As the train whistled out, I bade him adieu. | |
48 | ADO | ||
Ado about nothing | خواہ مخواہ برھانا | It is a systematic policy of the opposition in Parliament everywhere in the world to make much ado about nothing to pull a feather or two from the cap of the party in power. | |
49 | ADONAIS | ||
Adonais | خوبصورت نوجوان نسل | Many an adonais glitters on the campus. | |
50 | ADVANCE | ||
Advance copy | اشاعت سے پہلے | This is an advance copy of our Dictionary of idioms and phrases. | |
Advance in | پیشگی/پہلے ہی | Please let me have a copy of your speech in advance. The soldiers fought in advance. | |
Advance in life | بڑھتی عمر | As a man advances in life he becomes more serious and conscious. | |
51 | ADVANTAGE | ||
To take advantage of | فائدہ اٹھانا | You can take advantage of my influence for getting a job in S.A. Salam Publications. | |
To have advantage over | برتری ہونا | An employer has always many advantages over his employees. | |
Advantage ground | اچھی پوزیشن میں | Once a man gets popular, he is at advantage ground to go ahead with his schemes at a quick pace. | |
To take a person at an advantage | حیران کرنا | The Russians took the Americans at an advantage at the Geneva Conference. | |
52 | AD VERBUM | ||
ad verhum | من وعن/لفظ بہ لفظ | The school girl crammed the poem ad verbum. | |
53 | ADVISE | ||
advise | آگاہ کرنا | I have advised him telegraphically that I am leaving by Night Coach. | |
54 | AEGIS | ||
under the aegis of | سرپرستی میں | A great function was held under the aegis of the Government of Pakistan to honour King Faisal. | |
55 | AFFETTUOSO | ||
Affettuoso | نرمی سے | As he parted from his beloved friend, he kissed her affettuoso. | |
56 | AFFILIATE | ||
affiliate with | الحاق ہونا | Boston College is affiliated with Punjab University. | |
affiliate to | رکن بننا | I an affiliated to the Muslim League. | |
57 | AFFRONT | ||
To Offer an affront to | بے عزتی کرنا | Mokaram offered an affront to his father. | |
58 | AFIELD | ||
far afield | فاصلے پر/دور | The economic regeneration of Pakistan is still far afield. | |
59 | AFOREHAND | ||
afore hand | وقت سے پہلے | One often knows of one’s death aforehand. | |
60 | AFTER | ||
To look after | دیکھ بھال | The women should always look after the house and men should work in offices. | |
After all | آخر کار | After all he is your brother, you must not behave like that. | |
Hanker after | تلاش کرنا | An intelligent person should not hanker after a clerical job. | |
Look before and after | سوچنا | A wise man always looks before and after while doing anything. | |
61 | AFTERMATH | ||
aftermath | برے نتائج | Kashmir is still suffering from the aftermath of war between India and Pakistan. | |
62 | AGAIN | ||
Now and again | کبھی کبھی | I visit Sahiwal now and again. | |
As much again | دوگنی | I cannot sell this book for two rupees; even if you pay as much again, it will still be below my cost price. | |
Time and again; over and over again; again and again | بار بار | The teacher explained the problem again and again till every student understook it. | |
63 | AGAPE | ||
Agape | دھچکا پہنچانا | Yahya Khan’s action in Bangla Desh left the people agape. | |
64 | AGAINST | ||
Against a rainy day | برے وقت کے لئے | It is wise to keep some money against a rainy day. | |
To work against time | جلدی کام کرنا | We are asking all the laboures of our factory to work against time for completing that Government’s contract before the end of this month. | |
To run against | اچانک ملنا | I ran against Sonia in Hotel during my last visit. | |
65 | AGE | ||
A golden age | اچھا وقت | Years 1972 was a golden age for my brother’s business. | |
To come of age | بالغ ہونا | Salma god married when she came to age. | |
For ages | کافی عرصہ سے | My brother has not written me for ages. | |
Over-age | بوڑھا | The man is over-age for government employment. | |
Under-age | بہت چھوٹا | The is under-age for military service. | |
66 | AGENCY | ||
By the agency of | مدد سے | By the agency of God, we completed our expedition to the Himalayas. | |
67 | AGITATO | ||
agitato | جوش سے | You cannot win a point by speaking agitato. | |
68 | AGO | ||
Long, long ago | بہت عرصہ پہلے | Long, long ago, there was a king named Shiraz, who sacrificed everything for the well being of his nation. | |
69 | AGONY | ||
agony column | اخبار کا کالم {موت ، گمشدگی وغیرہ سے متعلق | One day I found the name of my friend in the agony column. | |
70 | AGREE | ||
agree with | ماننا | I fully agree with you. | |
agree to | اتفاق کرنا | The whole family agreed to the suggestion of Naeem. | |
Agree on | متفق ہونا | At last the family agreed on to carry on the business jointly. | |
Agreeable | |||
Agreeable to | موافق | The climate is agreeable to me. | |
71 | AGOG | ||
To be all agog | مشتاق | The whole nation was all agog to have a glimpse of Clinton. | |
72 | AHEAD | ||
to go ahead | آگے بڑھنا | Go ahead with your plans. | |
73 | AHORES | ||
Ahorse back | گھوڑے کی پیٹھ پر | Napoleon often slept ahorse back. | |
Aide-de-camp | ساتھی/مددگار | Mr. Shahid was an aide-de-camp to the prime Minister. | |
74 | AIL | ||
Ail at | اعتراض | What ails him at? | |
75 | AIM | ||
Take aim | دانستہ مقصد | She took aim at her boy friend. | |
Aim at | متوجہ | He aims at becoming a pilot one day. | |
76 | AIR | ||
In the air | نا مکمل | Many schemes are in the air. | |
Take air | ہوا کھانا | Let us go out and take the air. | |
Take air | مشہور ہونا | Let your secrets not take air. | |
On the air | نشر کرنا | The morning news is now on the air. | |
To give a person | معطل کرنا | A dishonest person is given the air in no time. | |
The air an air of absurdity | بے وقوفانہ | He is always having an air of absurdity. | |
Airy | ہلکے دل کی | Many women are airy and hence cannot be depended upon. | |
77 | AJAR | ||
To be ajar | آدھ کھلا | When we reached home, we found the door ajar. | |
78 | ALARM | ||
To raise an alarm | شور مچانا/خطرے سے آگاہ کرنا | when the fire broke out in Sadar Bazar, the people of the locality raised an alarm. | |
To take alarm | خوفزدہ ہونا | A person who always takes alarm cannot prosper in life. | |
79 | ALAS | ||
Alas the day | بدقسمت دن | Alas the day when Quaid lost his life. | |
80 | ALERT | ||
On the alert | ہوشیار | A constable should be always on the alert. | |
81 | ALIVE | ||
Alive with | بھرا ہونا | The room is alive with mosquitoes. | |
Be alive | جلدی | Be alive to catch the train. | |
82 | ALL | ||
All cheering | خوشیوں سے بھرا | It was an all cheering function. | |
All fired | دوزخی | It was an all-fired battle. | |
All in all | کرتا دھرتا | The Principal is all in all in the college. | |
All at once | اچانک | All at once, a robber attacked me. | |
All in | کلی طور پر | All in, we were five people against fifty. | |
All out | پوری رفتار /قوت | I rode all out to catch the train in time. | |
All Over | ہر جگہ | When entered the valley, I found water all over. | |
All over with | ختم ہونا | In five minutes it was all over with him. | |
All’s one | فرق نہ ہونا | It’s all one, whether you go asfray. | |
All to one | اکھٹے | All to one, there were a hundred souls. | |
All there | ہوشیار | Till the end he was all there. | |
All the same | تاہم | The doctor did his best for the patient; all the same he died. | |
All up with | امید سے باہر ہونا | The patient was sinking every minute. So it ‘as all up with him. | |
At all | بالکل/قطعی طور پر | He did not make any effort at all to help himself. | |
For all | سب کے باجود | He failed for all the effort he made and money he spent. | |
AU and sundry | خاص و عام | The law applause to all and sundry. | |
All-rounder | ہرفن مولا | He is an all-rounder, well up both in studies and in games. | |
All through | ہر لطف سے | The mechanic has looked all through his scooter. | |
All of a sudden | اچانک | His mother expired all of a sudden. | |
For good and all | ہمیشہ کے لئے آخر کار | I intend leaving Lahore for good and all. | |
Once for all | صرف ایک بار | Once for all, I request you to leave this place. | |
Alla breve | جلد از جلد | You must achieve your goal alla breve. | |
83 | ALLOT | ||
Allot | ملکیت | This house is allotted to me. | |
84 | ALLOW | ||
Allow for | خیال کرنا | While marking the papers an examiner allowed allowa for cleanliness. | |
85 | ALLOWANVE | ||
To make allowance for | خیال دینا | In offering this job, we should make allowance for family background. | |
86 | ALMIGHTY | ||
Almighty dollar | پیسہ | The almighty dollar rules the world today. | |
87 | ALONG | ||
All along | پہلے | All along you had been saying that you want to go to Karachi and now when the opportunity has arisen; you decline to do so. | |
Along with | ساتھ | Next time when I go abroad I shall take my wife along with me. | |
88 | ALOOF | ||
Keep aloof | دور رہنا | Keep aloof from all selfish friends. | |
89 | ALPHA | ||
Alpha and omega | شروع و آخر | Money is alpha and omega of modern man. Truth is alpha and omega of education. | |
90 | ALTAR | ||
To lead to altar | شادی | Jamil led Maria to altar. | |
91 | AMAZON | ||
Amazon | مضبوط و بہادر عورت | She was Amazon in police and cowed down criminals. | |
92 | AMBROSIA | ||
Ambrosia | دیوی دیوتاؤں کی خوراک | Modern food is no ambrosia. | |
93 | AMEND | ||
To make amends | تلافی کرنا | The teacher advised Salman to make amends for his conduct. | |
94 | AMISS | ||
To take amiss | غلط سمجھنا | You may tell me whatever you want, I will not take amiss. | |
Not amiss | غلط نہ ہونا | To reprimand an erring child sometimes is not amiss. | |
95 | AMUCK | ||
Run amuck | پاگل ہو جانا | The constable ran amuck and shot down two fellow policemen. | |
96 | ANCHOR | ||
At anchor | بادبان پر | The ship is at anchor in the harbour. The wife is anchor at home. | |
To cast anchor | بادبان گرانا | The ship cast the anchor in the Port. | |
Weigh anchor | بادبان باندھنا | The ship weighed anchor and sailed away. | |
97 | ANCIENT | ||
The ancient of days | خدا | A man who trusts in the ancient of days, generally succeeds in life. | |
98 | ANGEL | ||
Angel of death | موت کا پیامبر | Cholera is the angel of death. | |
Visits like angels | بہت کم آنا | Now—a—days your visits are like angels. | |
99 | ANIMAL | ||
Animal spirits | خوش باش زندگی سے بھرپور | This voting boy is full Of animal spirits. | |
100 | ANON | ||
Ever and anon | کبھی کبھار | He comes to my place ever and anon. | |
101 | ANSWER | ||
Answer the call of nature | رفع حاجت کاجانا | Everyday we have to answer the call of nature. | |
Answer to | جواب دینا | Our parrot answers to Javed. | |
To answer | کامیاب | I am afraid his efforts will not answer. | |
102 | ANT | ||
Ant-hill | زمین | We are denizens of the ant-hill. | |
103 | ANTE | ||
Ante bellum | جنگ سے پہلے | Bangladesh was a Pakistani colony anti bellum. | |
104 | ANTIDOTE | ||
To act as antidote | تریاق کا کام کرنا | Truth acts as an antidote to falsehood. | |
105 | ANY | ||
At any rate | ہر صورت میں | At any rate, I must get first class in the examination. | |
Anyone | کوئی بھی | The question is so simple that anyone can solve it. | |
106 | APART | ||
To set apart | وقف کرنا | Some time must be set apart for daily prayers. | |
107 | APE | ||
God’s ape | پیدائشی بے وقوف | He is a God’s ape. | |
To put an ape in one’s hood | بے وقوف بنانا | Don’t put an apein your hood. | |
108 | A-PER-SE | ||
Aper-se | غیر معمولی | Taj Mahal is a-per-sc. | |
Apostle of peace | امن کا پیامبر | Quaid was an apostle of peace. | |
Appeal to the country | الیکشن سے جیتنا | A democratic government appeals to the country for the confirmation of its policies. | |
Appeal | مؤثر توت | Beauty has its own appeal. | |
To appeal | مسحور کرنا | A beautiful girl always appeals to the eye. | |
109 | APPEARANCE | ||
Keep up appearances | ظاہری شان | Every body is trying to keep up appearances these days. | |
Put in an appearance | بذات خود | He put in an appearance at the marriage. | |
To all appearances | ہر لحاظ سے | To all appearances, she was a brave lady. | |
110 | APPLE | ||
Apple of discord | فساد کی جڑ | Money is the greatest apple of discord in families. Israel is an apple of discord in the Middle East. | |
Apple of sodom ro dead sea apple | قدما کے مطابق ایک پھل جو دیکھنے میں خوبصورت گھر چھونے پر جل جاتا ہے | Politics is an apple of sodom. “Ideal state”, theory of the Plato is dead sea apple. | |
Apple of the eye | لاڈلا | Shahid is an apple of his mother’s eye. | |
Apple-pie order | زبر دست تنظیم | You will find everything in our house in all apple-pie order. | |
Upset the apple cart | منصوبے کو مذکر دینا | Elections will upset apple-cart of the ruling party. | |
111 | APPLY | ||
Apply for | درخواست دینا | He has applied for a clerical post. | |
To apply oneself to | وقف کرنا | The teacher advised the students to apply themselves to studies. | |
112 | APPOINTMENT | ||
To fix up an appointment | وقت لینا | Please fix up an appointment with the manager, before you can see M.r. | |
To keep an appointment | وقت پر پہنچنا | He always keeps his appointment. | |
113 | APPRENTICESHIP | ||
To serve apprentices hip | شاگردی کرنا | You must serve apprenticeship with a guru to learn yoga. | |
114 | APPROACH | ||
Approach stroke or approach shot | بااثر لوگوں سے رابطہ کا ذریعہ | Brite is an approach shot anywhere. He enjoys an approach stroke to the minister. | |
115 | A PRIORI | ||
A priori | Gook ends must be achieved by gook means, a priori. | ||
116 | APRON | ||
Apron-strings, tied to a woman’s | بچے کی طرح محکوم ہونا | A minister is tied to the apron strings of the Prime Minister. | |
117 | ARAB | ||
Street-Arab | بے گھر بچے | Modern world is full of street-arabs. | |
118 | ARCHITECT | ||
To be the architect of | بنانے والا | A truly great man is the architect of his destiny. | |
To argue it away | تدبیر کے ساتھ نجات پانا | Unemployment in the country cannot be argued away. | |
119 | ARM | ||
Arm in arm | پانیوں میں پلنیں والے | The friends walked arm in arm. | |
At arm’s length | دور رکھنا/اوقات میں رکھنا | Keep your enemies at arm’s length. | |
In arms | بانہوں میں | The mother carried the child in arms. | |
Right arm | دایاں ہاتھ | He was the right arm of his father. | |
With open arms | دل سے کھلے | They received us with open arms. | |
Arms race | اسلحہ کا مقابلہ | There is an arms race between U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. | |
Bear arms | فوجی بن کر خدمت کرنا | When war is on, all patriots bear arms. | |
In arms | مسلح | India is in arms against Pakistan. | |
Lay down one’s arms | ہتھیار پھینکنا | Japan and Germany laid down arms in the Second World War. | |
To take up arms | لڑائی شروع کرنا | They took up arms against the king. | |
Under arms | مسلح | Vietnamese are under arms. | |
Up in arms | مزاحمت پر راضی | Israelis are always up in arms. | |
King of arms | بادشاہ | Quaid was the king of arms in politics. | |
120 | ART | ||
Art and part | حصہ دار | The student community is art and part of the political movement. | |
Black art | جادو | Gogies earns their living through black art. | |
121 | ARTICLE | ||
In the articles of death | قریب المرگ | He found his beloved friend in the articles of death. | |
Of great article | بڑا وہم | This is a book of great article. This is a man of great article. | |
122 | ARTISTIC | ||
Artistic temperament | شکارانہ مزاج | You cannot depend on a man of artistic temperament to keep his promises. | |
123 | AS | ||
As it were | کہنے کے مطابق | He was a great man; as it were, a lork of the assembly. | |
As yet | اب تک | He has not arrived home as yet. | |
124 | ASHES | ||
Sackcloth and ashes | پچھتاوا | The defeated nations do not wear sackcloth and ashes. | |
To lay in ashes | جل جانا | The whole factory lay in ashes. | |
To brig back the ashes | شکست ختم کرنا | Pakistani cricketers did their best to bring back the Ashes from Australia. | |
125 | ASIDE | ||
Aside from | علاوہ | He has a big balance, aside from his landeed properties. | |
Aside to set | اتک رکھنا | The Supreme Court set aside the Presidential Ordinance. | |
126 | AT | ||
At the bottom of | ذریعہ سے | Ramzan was at the bottom of the conspiracy against the President. | |
At daggers Drawn | خون کے پیاسے | Shahid and Waqar are at daggers drawn now-a-days. | |
At home in | شناسا | He is at home in English. | |
At the tope of | پوری قوت سے | He shouted at the tope of his voice. | |
At a loss | پریشان ہونا | I am at a loss to understand what made you to go to javed’s house. | |
At liberty | آزادی | He is at liberty now-a-days. | |
At a standstill | ساکت ہونا | The talks of professors for M.A.O. College are again at a standstill. | |
At fault | غلط ہونا/غلطی پر ہونا | When you say you are not familiar with the problem, you are at fault. | |
127 | ATOMIC | ||
Atomic warfare | ایٹمی جنگ | There is always a danger of atomic warfare while the atomic pile rises in the world. | |
128 | ATTEND | ||
Attend to | توجہ دینا | You must attend to your duties. | |
Attend on | خدمت کرنا | A hundred ministers attended on the king. | |
129 | ATTENDANCE | ||
To dance attendance of | سہولت اٹھانا | Clerks dance attendance of the Superintendent. | |
130 | AVAIL | ||
To avail oneself of | فائدہ اٹھانا | I will avail myself of this golden chance. | |
131 | AVANT | ||
Avant-garde | آگاہ ہونا | Today we do not have any avant-garde in arts, letters or politics. | |
132 | AWAY | ||
Do away with | ختم کرنا | The Parliament did away with the British laws. | |
Explain away | واضح کرنا | The Government is trying to explain away the assassination of Mr. Nasir. | |
Fall away | جوش رکھنا | When Buddha gave up austerities, many of his followers fell away. | |
Fire away | پیش کرنا بلا توقف | Please fire away the work assigned to you. | |
Make away with | قتل کرنا | The police made away with the criminal. | |
Once and away | اکثر | He comes to Sec me once and away. | |
133 | AWE | ||
Awe-inspiring | دہشت ناک | The personality of a king is awe-in spiring. | |
134 | AWRY | ||
Look awry | کن انکھیوں سے دیکھنا | When l asked for his help, he looked awry. | |
Walk awry | غلط سمت لے جانا | Many things are likely to walk awry in life. | |
To go awry | بھٹک جانا | Many a young man goes awry. | |
135 | AXE | ||
Axe to grind | اپنا فائدہ دیکھنا | I do not like Shahid, he is always in the habit of grinding his own axe. |
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