English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Dogs are barking
Meaning: If your dogs are barking, this means that your feet are hurting. Interesting fact: There is a brand of shoes called Hush Puppy. The connection between this brand and the expression “dogs are barking” is obvious: the shoes Hush Puppies are supposedly so comfortable and your feet won’t hurt when you wear them.
Example: My dogs are barking because I walked ten miles.
English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Be part of the furniture
Meaning: If someone or something is part of the furniture, they have been somewhere so long as to seem an integral part of the place.
Example: She worked for that company for so long that she became part of the furniture.
English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Another nail in one’s coffin
Meaning: One in a series of events which lead to downfall or inevitable failure.
Example: After the bankruptcy and the death of his only son, divorce is just another nail in his coffin.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Pull in one’s horns
Meaning: (Also draw in one’s horn) To become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to back down from a fight; to yield or capitulate.
Example: They stopped making investments. They pulled in their horns.
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Jam on the brakes
Meaning: To press the brakes suddenly and in a hard way.
Example: I had to jam on the brakes because a kid suddenly appeared from nowhere and crossed the road.
English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Thick as thieves
Meaning: Intimate, close-knit.
Example: Alan and John attended a boarding school together and were thick as thieves.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Put on a brave face
Meaning: To pretend that a problem doesn’t bother you.
Example: He looks calm, but I suspect he’s just putting on a brave face.