English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Play cat and mouse
Meaning: to tease, confuse or fool someone by trying to trick them into making a mistake so that you have an advantage over them.
Example: The famous businessman spent his time playing cat and mouse with the judge.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Fall in love with someone
Meaning: To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing
Example: They fell in love with each other from the moment they saw each other.
English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Fall off the back of a lorry
Meaning: A euphemism for something acquired illegally or stolen.
Example: He was trying to sell me a new laptop which I suspect fell off the back of a lorry.
English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: Meat and two veg
Meaning: The male genitals.
Example: Everybody could see his meat and two veg because his trousers were so tight.
English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Bear one’s cross
Meaning: If someone bear one’s cross they endure burden or difficulties. A cross is a Christian religious symbol. It is viewed as a symbol of Jesus’s crucifixion.
Example: I know it is a difficult situation you are experiencing, but you have to bear your own cross. I can’t help you. I am sorry.
English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Born to the purple
Meaning: If someone is born to the purple or in the purple, they are born into a reigning family or privileged class.
Example: She was the only child born to the purple.
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.