English Idioms: Build bridges

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Wear the pants
Meaning: (Also wear the trousers)especially of a woman – to exercise authority or to be the person in charge in a relationship.
Example: He may seem authoritative, but the truth is that it’s his wife who really wears the pants in that relationship.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Make a fast buck
Meaning: (Also make quick buck) to earn money without much effort.
Example: If you have got any idea of how to make a fast buck, please tell me!

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Play second fiddle
Meaning: To take a subordinate or weaker position than someone else.
Example: Bill doesn’t want to play second fiddle to his colleague any more. He feels he is more trained and more experienced.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Mark my words
Meaning: Listen to me; used before a statement one wishes to emphasize.
Example: Mark my words, this boy is going to become a great poet.

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Love someone to bits
Meaning: The idiom to love someone to bits means to love someone very much.
Example: She is the woman I love to bits.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Take the fifth
Meaning: To decline to answer, especially on grounds that it might be incriminating. The origin of the phrase dates back to the Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which says that a person can’t “be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
Example: If you ask me who stole the wallet, I will simply take the fifth.