English Idioms: Dead to the world
English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Dead to the world
Meaning: Said about someone who is sound asleep or unconscious.
Example: He slept right through the night and was still dead to the world when I went out.
English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Dead to the world
Meaning: Said about someone who is sound asleep or unconscious.
Example: He slept right through the night and was still dead to the world when I went out.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: All hat and no cattle
Meaning: Describing someone who is full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
Example: We expect our president to be effective in his job, not a person who is all hat and no cattle.
English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: When it rains, it pours
Meaning: (Also, it never rains but it pours) said when bad things occur in large numbers.
Example: First, he had a terrible accident. Then, his wife had a heart attack. Really when it rains, it pours.
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 “Relationship”
Idiom: Play a joke
Meaning: (Also play trick) to deceive someone for fun.
Example: On April fool’s day some people play practical jokes on their friends.
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Every trick in the book
Meaning: Said when you try every possible way to achieve something.
Example: She’s tried every trick in the book to convince him in vain.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: The men in grey suits
Meaning: The phrase the men in grey suits refers to the powerful and influential men in business or politics. A variation of this idiom is: the men in suits
Example: The men in grey suits will decide the future of this nation.