English Idioms: Back to the salt mines

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Chew the fat
Meaning: To waste time talking or to chat idly.
Example: As she had nothing to do, she wasted time chewing the fat with the neighbor.

English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: Come out of the closet
Meaning: The phrase come out of the closet means to admit publicly one’s homosexuality.
Example: He came out of the closet when he went to university.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: A watched pot never boils
Meaning: This expression is used to mean that things appear to go more slowly if one waits anxiously for it.
Example: There’s no point running downstairs for every mail delivery. A watched pot never boils.

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: The chill wind of something
Meaning: Problems, trouble.
Example: World economies are facing the chill wind of the recession.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Not have a snowball’s chance in hell
Meaning: (Also not have a cat in hell’s chance) not to be able to achieve something.
Example: He hasn’t a snowball’s chance of getting the money he needs for the project.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Fall from grace
Meaning: The idiom fall from grace refers to a loss of status, respect, or prestige. The idiom comes from a Christian reference to the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Example: The politician has fallen from grace and has become very unpopular.