English Idioms: Blessing in desguise

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Blessing in desguise
Meaning: A blessing in disguise is said when a misfortune has some unexpected benefits
Example: His failure to pass the exam was a blessing in disguise. This made him realize the importance of hard work.

English Idioms: The dismal science

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: The dismal science
Meaning: The phrase the dismal science refers to the discipline of economics. The term drew a contrast with the phrase gay science which refers to song and verse writing the phrase the dismal science first occurs in Thomas Carlyle’s 1849 tract called Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he argued in favor of reintroducing slavery in order to regulate the labor market in the West Indies: Not a “gay science,” I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. Carlyle, Thomas (1849). “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question”, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL., p. 672.
Example: He is interested in history and the dismal science.

English Idioms: Company man

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Company man
Meaning: The phrase company man refers to a worker who is more loyal to his employer than to his fellow workers.
Example: He’s never criticized the boss; he has always been a company man.