Brass Tacks :



Box Clever :

If you are clever, you use your intelligence to get what you want even if you have to cheat a bit.




Boxing and Coxing :

If people are boxing and coxing, they are sharing responsibilities so that one of them is working while the other isn’t. It can also be used when couples are sharing a house. But their relationship has broken down and when one is at home, the other stays out.




Boys in Blue :

The boys in blue are the police.




Brain Surgery :

If something is not brain surgery, it is not very complicated or difficult to understand or master.




Brass Monkey :

If it is brass monkey weather or cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, it is extremely cold.




Brass Neck :

Someone who has the brass neck to do something has no sense of shame about what they do.




Brass Tacks :

If any person gets down to brass tacks, he or she gets down to the real business.




Bread and Butter :

Bread and butter issues are ones that affect people directly and in a very important way.




Breadwinner :

This is used to describe the person that earns the most money.

Maheshwari is the breadwinner in the family.




Break A Leg :

This idiom is a way of wishing someone good luck.




Break Even :

If you break even, you do not make any money, but you do not lose any either.

I wish our breaks even in the next quarter.




Break Ground :

If you break ground or break new ground, you make progress taking things into a new area or going further than anyone has gone before.



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