Day 20 of sharing idioms and phrasal verbs

Idioms:

1. Button her lip - Stop talking
2. Buy a lemon - To buy something that is of much less value
3. By a whisker - By a thin margin
4. By and by - Gradually
5. By and large - In general // on the whole
6. By courtesy of - Given or allowed by // With kindly consideration
7. By fair means or fouls - In any way honest or dishonest
8. By fits and starts - Unsteady // Irregularly
9. By hook or by crook - By any means, good or bad.
10. By leaps and bounds - Very quickly
11. By the same token - In the same way
12. By the skin of one's teeth - By the narrowest margin
13. By the sweat of one's brow - Hard work
14. Call in a question - Challenge
15. Call the shots - To be in control

Phrasal verbs:

1. Ease into - To gradually become familiar with or start doing something
2. Ease off - To reduce in severity or intensity
3. Eat into - To consume or deplete gradually
4. Eat out - To dine outside the home
5. Eat up - To consume completely
6. Edge out - To gradually defeat or surpass
7. Egg on - To encourage someone to do something, often something unwise
8. Embark on/upon - To start a new project/venture
9. Empty out - To remove the contents of something
10. End in - To result in a particular way

I procrastinated the day before yesterday. Wanted to post yesterday but our ISP ie Airtel had an outage due to maintenance, thus I'm posting it this early in the morning to compensate for yesterday. I can post "todays" batch tonight as well as if ya'll would like. Also I'm so happy that 'B' series of idioms is finally over. Mei bhi bore hogaya tha karte karte 😭🙏