English Idioms: Rough time
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Rough time
Meaning: The idiom rough time means a hard or bad time.
Example: It was such a rough time.
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Rough time
Meaning: The idiom rough time means a hard or bad time.
Example: It was such a rough time.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Take one’s hat off to someone
Meaning: Said when you admire someone for an achievement.
Example: If she manages to deal with three small children and a full-time job, I’ll take my hat off to her.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Draw in one’s horns
Meaning: (Also pull in one’s horns) to become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to back down from a fight; to yield or capitulate.
Example: He wanted to fight again but we managed to calm him down and get him to draw in his horns.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Curl your lip
Meaning: An upward movement of the side of the mouth to show dislike and disrespect.
Example: He asked her not curl her lip at him.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Be glad to see the back of someone
Meaning: To be happy to get rid of someone; to be happy because someone has left.
Example: The youg man was glad to see the back of his father-in-law after he had stayed for a month.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: On the face of it
Meaning: On the surface.
Example: On the face of it, she seems innocent. But when the police investigated her case, they discovered that she was guilty.
English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Charity begins at home
Meaning: Charity begins at home is a proverb. It means that, before deciding to take care of other people, one’s family should be one’s foremost concern.
Example: Take care of your children before volunteering in any association. Charity begins at home.