English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
WORDS USED IN PAIRS
13. Home and dry: If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful:
If we can win this next deadline, we will be home and dry.
14. Root and branch: If something has been completely changed or destroyed, you can say that it has been changed or destroyed root and branch:
They destroyed the company root and branch.
15. Beck and call: You are at a person’s beck and call when you are ready to obey their orders instantly; subject to someone’s slightest whim:
She is at the beck and call of the committee.
GAB
1 Comment
That’s alright. I have learnt enormously here.