English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Call a spade a spade
Meaning: To be truthful about something, even if it is rude or unpleasant.
Example: Lacy never fears to tell the truth. She calls a spade a spade.

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.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Go to hell in a handbasket
Meaning: Go to a bad state of affairs quickly.
Example: He said that all their plans for the project went to hell in a handbasket because of the recession.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Adam’s ale
Meaning: (Old-fashioned) water.
Example: Take a glass of adam’s ale if you are thirsty.