English Idioms

To damage one's own plans or progress by one's own foolish actions or words.

When somebody becomes famous due to something he/she did, but the fame goes away very soon.

Somebody who keeps praising himself in public or in a group of people, when no-one else is praising him.

When you carry a half empty vessel, it makes more noise as compared to filled one. In the same way, a person who knows less, pretends to know more and tries to act smart. On the other hand, a knowledgeable person is like a filled vessel who makes no noise or tries to pretend to be smart. His/her knowledge speaks on behalf of that person.

This means that until something is completed 100%, do not consider it complete. At a lot of times, we think it is over, because it is almost over, but there are always unforeseen factors at play in life, which lead to taking much longer to finish the last bits of something.

This means that outcomes always depend on the actions. If you do wrong, you cannot expect the outcomes to be good, and vice versa. Also another one in Hindi for the same is "Boya ped babul ka to aam kaha te khaay", which means if you sow a babul tree, you cannot eat/expect mangoes out of that tree.

British English: It is when someone is the third person with the other two having romantic relationship and would prefer to be left alone by this third guy. In this sense, the third guy is said to be playing gooseberry , while accompanying the two. US English: The term third wheel refers to someone who deters the socialization of a couple, perhaps when being invited out of pity or through a feeling of duty.