Watching Paint Dry :



Wash Your Hands of Something :

If you wash your hands of something, you disassociate yourself and accept no responsibility for what will happen.




Waste Not Want Not :

If you do not waste things, you are less likely to end up lacking.




Waste of Skin :

If a person is referred to as a waste of skin, it means he is not worth very much.




Watch Grass Grow :

If something is like watching grass grow, it is really boring.

Raja felt like watching the grass grow when his wife had gone to her parents’ house.




Watch Your Six :

This idiom means that you should look behind you for dangers coming that you cannot see.




Watching Paint Dry :

If something is like watching paint dry, it is really boring.




Water Off A Duck’s Back :

If criticism or something similar is like water off a duck’s back to somebody, they are not affected by it in the slightest.




Water Over The Dam:

If something has happened and cannot be changed, it is water over the dam.




Water Under The Bridge :

If something belongs to the past and is not important or troubling any more, it is water under the bride.




Watering Hole :

A watering hole is a pub.

The labourers lose their hard earned wages in watering holes.




Watery Grave :

If someone has gone to a watery grave, they have drowned.

More than seventy tourists on board the trawler met with their watery grave when the trawler capsized in the Mahanadi.




Weak at The Knees :

If people go weak at the knees, they have a powerful emotional reaction to something and feel that they might fall over.



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