English Idioms

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

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 About “Home”
Idiom: Go home in a box
Meaning: To die and be shipped home.
Example: Those soldiers are too young. It’s a pitty that they go home in a box.

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 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.

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Be dead in the water
Meaning: Said when something has no chance of succeeding or of making any progress.
Example: Our projects will be dead in the water if we don’t have a good plan.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Beat the clock
Meaning: To do something before a deadline.
Example: They managed to beat the clock and arrive a few minutes before the conference started.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Face (that) only a mother could love
Meaning: A very ugly face.
Example: Look at that poor girl. That’s a face that only a mother could love.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Go bananas
Meaning: To become very angry.
Example: He went bananas when he heard the news.