Idioms and Phrases 71

1. ugly customer: dangerous person.

• A person who often comes to borrow proves to be an ugly customer in the long run.

2. ugly temper: bad mood.

• It is clear from his face that he is in an ugly temper at this time.

3. unearthly hour: most inconvenient hour.

• Who can bear the disturbance at an unearthly hour?

4. (an) untimely end: premature death.

• The mysterious death of late Lal Bahadur Shastri shows that he met an untimely death.

5. uphill task: dangerous work.

• Really it was an uphill task for Hillary and his party to climb up the Mount Everest.

6. upper hand: mastery.

• Motilal Nehru had certainly an upper hand in legal profession as a distinguished advocate of India.

7. (the) upper ten: aristocracy.

• The study of world history reveals that there has always been a gap between the upper ten and the common masses.

8. (a) utopian scheme: fanciful scheme.

• It still seems to be a utopian scheme to make houses and live upon the moon.