English Idioms: Laugh up your sleeve
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Laugh up your sleeve
Meaning: To be secretly amused.
Example: They’re very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they’re laughing up their sleeves.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Laugh up your sleeve
Meaning: To be secretly amused.
Example: They’re very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they’re laughing up their sleeves.
English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Ball of fire
Meaning: A person who is especially hard-working, high-achieving, ambitious, or active.
Example: They say he is a real ball of fire. He has already demonstrated his wish to climb higher.
English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Golden opportunity
Meaning: Ideal moment to do something.
Example: She missed a golden opportunity to prepare herself for a career as a doctor, when she didn’t continue her studies at university.
English Idioms About “Weather”
Idiom: It never rains but it pours
Meaning: This expression is used to mean that things do not just happen occasionally, but all all at the same time.
Example: I woke up late, missed the bus and when I arrived to work I realized I lost my purse. It never rains but it pours.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Apple of somebody’s eye
Meaning: Said about someone whom you love the most and you are very proud of.
Example: His son is the apple of his eye.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Bear fruit
Meaning: The phrase bear fruit means to yield successful results.
Example: He thinks his new plan will undoubtedly bear fruit.
English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Hit the panic button
Meaning: (Also press or push the button)to panic suddenly.
Example: Relax! Don’t hit the button it’s just the wind.