English Idioms: Up-to-date

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Feast for the eyes
Meaning: Visually pleasing sight.
Example: Look at that painting. It’s really a feast for the eyes.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Kill time
Meaning: To kill time means to spend time doing nothing in particular.
Example: He had nothing in particular to do, so he went for a walk downtown to kill time.

English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: Take someone’s life
Meaning: To kill someone.
Example: The floods took hundreds of lives.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Cold piece of work
Meaning: If someone is a cold piece of work they are difficult to deal with.
Example: Did you see how she treats her husband? She is a cold piece of work.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Dip your toe in the water
Meaning: (Also dip a toe in the water) said when you start something carefully because you are not sure whether it will work or not.
Example: I am doing some volunteer work at the new school to try and dip my toe in the water of working in the education field

English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: At death’s door
Meaning: If you say you are at death’s door you mean that you are very close to the end of your life.
Example: She was so ill and was at death’s door for more than a month.