Animal Idioms with Meaning

Idioms - meaning

1. Eat like a horse - eating too excessively

2. A black sheep - being a disgrace for the family

3. Fish out of water - to be out of your comfort zone

4. Snug as a bug in a rug - warm & cosy

5. Straight from the horse's mouth - directly from the person involved

6. Crying wolf - to ask for help when you don't need it

7. Has a bigger fish to fry - has more important work to do

8. When pigs fly - something that you think will never happen

9. To bell the cat - to face a risk

10. Not the only fish in the sea - not the only suitable thing or person one can find

11. Like a cat on hot tin roof - in an uneasy or nervous state

12. Cat got your tongue? - can't you speak?

13. Butterflies in my stomach - feeling nervous

 

BCK Chp.3 Business Organization

 BCK CA Foundation

CHP 3 : Business Organizations 

 

Companies	Incorporation	Headquarter	Chairman	CEO	CFO	MD	Owner Group	Vision	Special Features
Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd.	1998	Ahmedabad	Gautam Adani	Karan Adani	Deepak Maheshwari	Gautam Adani	Adani group	-	APSEZ represents a large network of ports with India's largest SEZ at Mundra
Asian Paints Ltd.	1942	Mumbai	Amit Syngle	-	R J Jeyamurugan	Amit Syngle	-	Aims to become one of the top five decorative coatings companies world-wide by leveraging its expertise in the higher growth emerging markets	It is India's leading & Asia's fourth largest paint company
Axis Bank	1993	Mumbai	-	Amitabh Chaudhry	Puneet Sharma	Amitabh Chaudhry	Axis group	To be the preferred financial solutions provider excelling in customer delivery through insight, empowered employees and smart use of technology	It is one of the first new generation private bank to have begun operations in 1994. Third largest private sector bank
Bajaj Auto Ltd.	1945	Pune	Rahul Bajaj	Rajiv Bajaj	Soumen Ray	Rajiv Bajaj	Bajaj Group	To attain world class excellency by demonstrating value added products to customers	It is one of the world's top manufacturer of motorcycles in India. It is world's largest three wheeler manufacturer. India's largest exporter of motorcycles and three wheelers.
Bharti Airtel	1995	New Delhi	Sunil Mittal	Gopal Mittal	Badal Bagri	Gopal Mittal	Bharti group	To enrich the lives of customers	It is the largest mobile network operator in India and the third largest in the world with 400 million users.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.	1952	Mumbai	D Rajkumar	K Padmakar	Neelakantapillai Vijayagopal	K Padmakar	Govt. of India	Be a model corporate entity with social responsibility committed to energizing lives through sustainable development	BPCL is the only oil company in India to have equity stake in the 1st Greenfield Airport at Cochin International Airport Ltd.
Cipla Ltd.	1935	Mumbai	Y.K. Hamied	Umang Vohra	Kedar Upadhey	Umang Vohra	-	To be the first global biotech company to provide high quality at affordable prices that will enable access for millions of patients world-wide by the year 2025	It was formerly known as The Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceuticals Laboratories. It is a leading medicine manufacturer in India.
Coal India Ltd.	1975	Kolkata	Pramod Agrawal	-	Sanjiv Soni	Pramod Agrawal	Govt. of India	To emerge as a global player in the primary energy sector committed to provide energy security to the country by attaining environmentally & socially sustainable growth through best practices from mine to market	It is the largest coal producer company in the world
Dr.Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.	1984	Hyderabad	Kallam Satish Reddy	Erez Israeli	Parag Agarwal	-	-	Bringing expensive medicine within reach	It acquired American Remedies Ltd. in 1999. This acquisition made Reddy's the third largest pharmaceutical company in India.
Flipkart	2007	Singapore (legal domicile) Bengaluru (operational)	Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal (Founders)	Kalyan Krishnamurthy	Sriram Venkataraman	-	-	To become Amazon of India	In August 2018, Walmart acquired an 81% stake in Flipkart for US$16 billion
GAIL India Ltd.	1984	New Delhi	Manoj Jain	Manoj Jain	A.K. Tiwari	Manoj Jain	Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG)	To be the leading company in Natural Gas and Beyond, with Global focus, Committed to customer care, Value creation for all stakeholders and environment responsibility	GAIL owns the conutry's largest pipeline network. It is the largest state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company in India.
HDFC Bank Ltd.	1994	Mumbai	Deepak Parekh	-	Srinivasan Vaidyanathan	Sashidhar Jagdishan	HDFC group	-	HDFC is a market leader in e-commerce
ICICI Bank Ltd.	1994	Mumbai	Girish Chaturvedi	Sandeep Bakshi	Rakesh Jha	Sandeep Bakshi	ICICI group	To be the leading provider of financial services in India and a major global bank	ICICI Bank launched 'InstaBIZ', India's first most comprehensive digital banking platform for MSMEs in July 2019.
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.	1959	New Delhi	Shrikant Vaidya	-	Sandeep Kumar Gupta	Shrikant Vaidya	Govt. of India	A major diversified, trans-national, integrated energy company, with national leadership and a strong environment conscience, playing a national role in oil security & public distribution	IOC is India's largest commercial enterprise. It accounts for nearly half of India's petroleum products market share
Infosys	1981	Bengaluru	Nandan Nilekani	Salil Parekh	Nilanjan Roy	Salil Parekh	-	To be a globally respected corp. that provides best-of-breed business solutions, leveraging technology, delivered by best-in-class people	It is a global leader in technology and consulting services
ITC Ltd.	1910	Kolkata	Sanjiv Puri	Sanjiv Puri	Supratim Dutta	Sanjiv Puri	ITC group	Sustain ITC's position as one of India's most valuable corporation through world class performance, creating growing value for the Indian economy and Comoany's stakeholders	ITC is rated among the World's Best Big Companies, Asia's 'Fab 50' and the World's Most Reputable Companies by Forbes magazine.
Larsen & Turbo Ltd.	1938	Mumbai	Anil Naik	S.N. Subrahmanyan	Shankar Raman	S.N. Subrahmanyan	L&T group	L&T shall be a professionally managed Indian multinational, committed to total customer satisfaction and enhancing shareholder value	L&T has over 130 subsidiaries and 15 associate companies
NTPC Ltd.	1975	New Delhi	Gurdeep Singh	Gurdeep Singh	Anil Gautam	-	Govt. of India	To be the world's leading power company, energizing India's growth	It is a top power company in India with a commissioned capacity of 48028MW
Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd.	1956	Uttarakhand	Shashi Shankar	-	Subhash Kumar	Shashi Shankar	Govt. of India	To be global leader in integrated energy business through sustainable growth, knowledge excellence and exemplary governance practices	It is India's largest oil and gas exploration and production company
Powergrid Corp. of India Ltd.	1989	Gurugram	Sreekant Kandikuppa	-	Mohammed Taj Mukarrum	Sreekant Kandikuppa	Govt. of India	World class, integrated, global transmission company with dominant leadershipin emerging power markets ensuring reliability, safety and economy	It transmits about 50% of the total power generated in India on its transmission network
Reliance Industries Ltd.	1966	Mumbai	Mukesh Ambani	Mukesh Ambani	Srikanth Venkatchari & Alok Agarwal	Mukesh Ambani	Reliance group	RIL aim is to touch the lives of people in a positive way	It is one of the India's largest private sector companies.
State Bank of India	1806	Mumbai	Dinesh Kumar Khara	-	Charanjit Surinder Attra	C.C Setty, Ashwani Bhatia, Swaminathan J., Ashwini Tewari	Govt. of India	My SBI My customer first My SBI: First in customer satisfaction	Bank of Madras was merged into two other "presidency bank" in British India, i.e Bank of Calcutta and Bank of Bombay to form Imperial Bank of India, which in turn became SBI in 1955. It is the largest banking and financial services company in India by assets.
Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.	1868	Bombay House, Mumbai	Natrajan Chandrasekaran	-	Eruch Kapadia	Natrajan Chandrasekaran	Tata group	-	It is India's largest conglomerate
Wipro Ltd.	1945	Bengaluru	Rishad Premji	Thierry Delaporte	Jatin Dalal	Rishad Premji	-	To be among the Top 10 Global IT & Business Process Outsourcing Services	It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, Maharashtra under the trade name of Kisan Sunflower and Camel
Amazon.com, Inc.	1994(U.S) 2012-2013(India)	Seattle, Washington, U.S. Hyderabad, India	Jeff Bezos (Founder)	Andy Jassy(US) Amit Agarwal(India)	Brian T. Olsavsky(US) Raghava Rao(India)	-	-	We aim to be Earth's most customer centric company	It is world's largest online marketplace. Ranked 2nd on Fortune 500 Companies List in 2021. It is considered one of the Big Four companies in US IT industry, along with Google, Apple and Facebook.
American Express	1850	New York City, US	Stephen Squeri	Stephen Squeri	Jeffery C. Campbell	-	-	To be a leading provider of payment solutions worlwide	It was founded as a joint stock corp. by the merger of the express companies owned by Henry Wells(Wells & Co.), William G. Fargo(Livingston, Fargo & Co.) and John Warren Butterfield(Wells, Butterfield & Co.)
Apple	1977	California, US	-	Tim Cook	Luca Maestri	-	-	To produce high-quality, low cost, easy to use products that incorporate high tachnology for the individual.	Apple is world's largest IT company by revenue, the world's largest tech company by total assets and the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer by volume after Samsung. It ranked 3rd on Fortune 500 Companies List in 2021 6th on Forbes World's Largest Public Corporations in 2021 5th on Forbes World's Best Employers List 2021.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	1869	200 West Street, New York	David Solomon	David Solomon	Stephen Scherr	-	-	-	It is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities & investment management services
HP Inc.	1939	California, US	Chip Bergh	Enrique Lores	Marie Myers	-	-	To create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere- every person, every organization and every community around the globe	HP Inc. launched the world's first notebook with ocean-bound plastics in Sep.2019
IBM Corporation	1911	New York, US	Arvind Krishna (also president)	Arvind Krishna	James J. Kavannaugh	Sandip Patel (IBM India Pvt. Ltd.)	-	IBM should be first and foremost on any new enterprise data centre migration shortlist	IBM entered India in 1992 with a Tata joint-venture, named Tata Information Systems Ltd.
Intel Corporation	1968	California, US	Omar Ishrak	Patrick Paul Gelsingern	George Davis	-	-	-	It is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors. It ranked 40th on Fortune 500 Companies List in 2021.
Microsoft Corporation	1975	Washington, US	John Thompson	Satya Nadella	Amy Hood	-	-	To help individuals and businesses realize their full potential	Microsoft ranked 15th on Fortune 500 Companies list in 2021, 15th on Forbes World's Largest Public Corporations List 2021, 3rd on Forbes World's Best Employers List 2021
Nestle	1866	Vevey, Switzerland	Paul Bulcke	Ulf Mark Scheider	Francois-Xavier Roger	-	Nestle group	Good Food, Good Life	It is the world's largest food, nutrition, health and wellness company. It has been the largest food company in the world. It ranked 39th on Forbes World's Largest Corporation List 2021.
Walmart	1969	Arkansas, US	Greg Penner	Dough Mcmillon	Brett Biggs	-	-	To be the best retailer in the hearts and minds of consumers and employees	Walmart is world's largest company by revenue and world's leading retailer. Walmart ranked 1st on Fortune 500 Companies List in 2021. It ranked 18th on Forbes Largest Public Corporations List 2021. Walmart acquires 77% shares of Flipkart on May9,2018. It also acquired Moosejaw & Bonobos(2017) & jet.com(2016).

Work Life Idioms with Meaning

 Work Life Idioms with meaning

Idioms - meaning

1.  Go the extra mile - to make an extra effort
2.  Call it a day - stop working on something
3.  It's not rocket science - something not complicated to understand
4.  Cut corners - to do something the easiest way
5.  Get the ball rolling - to get started
6.  On the back burner - low priority
7.  Back to the drawing board - to start again after a plan or idea was not successful
8.  For the long haul - a long period of time
9.  Think outside the box - to go beyond a normal idea
10.  Stay on your toes - to stay alert
11.  Raise the bars - to raise standards or expectations
12.  Back to square one - back to the beginning
13.  Rock the boat - to disturb a situation
14.  To be in hot water - to be in trouble
15.  Ramp up - to increase
16.  In the red - to be in debt
17.  By the book - to do something by law/rule
18.  Blue collar - someone who does a manual labour work
19.  Cash cow - a consistently profitable business or product
20.  Cut a deal - to reach an agreement  

 Idioms in ICAI Module

Idioms - Meanings

1.  Black Sheep - the odd one in the family
2.  A bed of Roses - a comfortable life with all luxuries
3.  To beat black and blue - to beat very badly
4.  To blow one's trumpet - to praise oneself a lot
5.  Kith and kin - one's relatives and friends
6.  A hard nut to crack - a difficult thing or problem
7.  A cold reception - unwelcome
8.  Lion's share - a major part
9.  Other fish to fry - other important work to do
10.  All and sundry - one and all
11.  Spick and span - clean, neat and organized
12.  A square meal - complete meal
13.  To take French leave - to take leave uninformed
14.  Man of straw - man of no substance
15.  A bolt from the blue - an unexpected disaster
16.  A fair weather friend - a friend only in good times
17.  Beat around the bush - digress from the main topic
18.  The ball is in your court - your chance; someone else's turn to make move
19.  Whole nine yards - All of it; everything that is possible
20.  At the drop of a hat - immediately
21.  A herculean task - a difficult job
22.  Gift of gab - speaking fluently

Commonly used Idioms with meaning

 

Idioms and their Meanings

Idioms - meaning

1. hang in there - don't give up
2. miss the boat - it's too late 
3. on the ball - doing a good job
4. go the extra mile - to make an extra effort
5. down for the count - tired
6. a dime for dozen - very common
7. see eye to eye - agreeing with someone
8. once in a blue moon - very rare event
9. when pigs fly - something that will never happen
10. to cost an arm and a leg - something is very expensive
11. a piece of cake - something which is very easy
12. let the cat out of the bag - to accidentally reveal a secret
13. to feel under the weather - to not feel well
14. to add insult to injury - to make a situation worse
15. break a leg - good luck
16. call it a day - stop working on something
17. giving someone the cold shoulder - to ignore someone
18. stealing someone's thunder - taking credit for someone else achievements
19. getting a second wind - having energy again after being tired
20. time will tell - the outcome will soon be known 
21. take a rain check - to reschedule at another time
22. take my hat off to someone - honour someone
23. talk a blue streak - talk a lot
24. the eleventh hour - last chance to do something
25. the home stretch - near the end
26. thick in the head - foolish
27. a lot on my plate - very busy
28. high on the hog - living in luxury