English Idioms: Take to something like a duck to water
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Take to something like a duck to water
Meaning: To have a natural ability to do something.
Example: She took to motherhood like a duck to water.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Take to something like a duck to water
Meaning: To have a natural ability to do something.
Example: She took to motherhood like a duck to water.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Be like a fish out of water
Meaning: To feel uncomfortable in a situation
Example: After her divorce, she was like a fish out of water.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Chew the fat
Meaning: To waste time talking or to chat idly.
Example: As she had nothing to do, she wasted time chewing the fat with the neighbor.
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Lock and load
Meaning: The phrase lock and load means to prepare for an imminent event. This idioms comes from military jargon referring to the preparation of a weapon for battle. The phrase was used in 1949 by John Wayne in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima.
Example: It’s time to lock and load.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Light skirt
Meaning: The phrase light skirt refers to a loose woman, a prostitute.
Example: Don’t call her a light skirt. She is a respectable woman.
English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Bag of bones
Meaning: An extremely thin person.
Example: He’s turning into a bag of bones. He lost so much weight.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Put words in somebody’s mouth
Meaning: To attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something.
Example: I hope I’m not putting words in your mouth. Did you just tell me to go home early?