آستین کا سانپ

Meaning: A treacherous false friend.

Language: Urdu

Literally: A snake in the sleeve

Category: Animals

Origin: A viper hidden in one's own sleeve pictures betrayal from someone trusted and kept close.

More idioms — Animals

• Il pleut comme vache qui pisse — It's pouring down — a crude, vivid way to say the rain is coming down extremely hard.
• sleep with the fishes — To be dead, with one's body disposed of in the ocean or a large body of water.
• straight from the horse's mouth — Information received directly from the original source, without intermediaries.
• thin the herd — To reduce the size of a group by removing members, typically the weakest or least product…
• donkey's ears — A very long time; ages.
• soft underbelly — A point of vulnerability or weakness in something otherwise strong or well-defended.

More Urdu idioms

• لوہے کے چنے چبانا — To face an extremely hard, gruelling task.
• ناک کا بال — Someone's closest, most trusted confidant.
• آنکھوں کا تارا — A dearly cherished person; the apple of one's eye.

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