English Idioms

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Joe Bloggs
Meaning: An average typical man.
Example: This car is very expensive and is not the sort of thing that Joe Bloggs would buy.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Worth its weight in gold When this phrase is applied to a person, the pronoun its is replaced by a personal pronoun, such as his or her.
Meaning: The idiomatic expression worth its weight in gold refers to someone or something that is valuable.
Example: The new manager cut down the company’s expenses by 30%. She is really worth her weight in gold.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Have bigger fish to fry
Meaning: (Also have other fish to fry; have more important fish to fry) to have other things to do; to have more important things to do.
Example: I can’t answer your question. I have bigger fish to fry.

English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Black-and-white
Meaning: Said when you have a simplistic opinion about situations while they are in fact more complicated.
Example: I think terrorism isn’t a black-and-white issue.

English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: You can bet your life
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that you are absolutely certain that something is true or will happen.
Example: You can bet your life they’ll get married.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Bend the law
Meaning: The phrase to bend the law means to cheat a little bit without breaking the law.
Example: He just bent the law a little bit to get what he wanted.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Learn by heart
Meaning: (Also learn by heart) to memorize something.
Example: She learned the poem by heart.

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: In bad shape
Meaning: In bad physical condition.
Example: Bill is in bad shape. He needs to exercise regularly and go on a diet.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Head over heels
Meaning: Completely in love.
Example: They fell head over heels for one another at the very moment they met.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Every man jack
Meaning: The phrase every man jack means every person without exception.
Example: All the volunteers contributed their time towards cleaning up the city, every man jack of them.