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English Idioms: Banana repulic

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English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Banana repulic
Meaning: A small country, especially one in Central America, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
Example: Banana republic countries need democratization.

English Idioms: Age before beauty

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English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Age before beauty
Meaning: A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones. Now most often used humorously or lightheartedly, and usually said by a younger person to an older friend or relative out of mock pity for being so much older and unattractive.
Example: Please, you first. Age before beauty, you know.

English Idioms: Strike a chord

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English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Strike a chord
Meaning: If something strikes a chord with you, it reminds you of something, it seems familiar to you or you are interested in it.
Example: That woman struck a chord with me. It seems to me that I had seen her before.

English Idioms: To a man

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English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: To a man
Meaning: The idiom to a man means without exception.
Example: All the neighbors were present at the meeting and they all, to a man, agreed to help the poor family.