English Idioms

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Love-hate relationship
Meaning: An interpersonal relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate.
Example: He has a love-hate relationship with his mother.

English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Yellow journalism
Meaning: Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
Example: This paper is practising yellow journalism with its reports on sex scandals.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: To cost an arm and a leg
Meaning: (Also cost a bomb,the earth,a packeta, a small fortune) extremely expensive.
Example: I’d love to buy a Rolls-Royce, but it costs an arm and a leg.

English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Bring a knife to a gunfight
Meaning: (Also, take a knife to a gunfight) To enter into a confrontation or other challenging situation without being adequately equipped or prepared.
Example: We lost the deal against much equipped competitors because we brought a knife to a gunfight.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Raise eyebrows
Meaning: To cause surprise or mild disapproval.
Example: The way the children behaved raised a few eyebrows the hosts.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Weep buckets
Meaning: (Also cry buckets) to cry a lot.
Example: She cried buckets, because that was such a sad event.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: As poor as a church mouse
Meaning: If someone is as poor as a church mouse they are extremely poor. An other similar phrase is hungry as a church mouse. The phrase is derived from the fact that church buildings don’t store or provide food and therefore mice in such buildings were utterly destitute.
Example: He is as poor as a church mouse; don’t ask him to donate anything.

English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Thick as thieves
Meaning: Intimate, close-knit.
Example: Alan and John attended a boarding school together and were thick as thieves.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Like water off a duck’s back
Meaning: Without any effect.
Example: He has always been criticized for many things, but he didn’t care. It would be like water off a duck’s back.

English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Drop a bombshell
Meaning: The phrase drop a bombshell refers to an alarming and unexpected announcement.
Example: His wife dropped a bombshell when she said she loved another man.