English Idioms

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Go through the roof
Meaning: Become very angry.
Example: She went through the roof when she realized she had lost everything.

English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Set the ball rolling
Meaning: (Also start or get the ball rolling) start something, especially a conversation or a social event.
Example: There was a quiet atmosphere in the party so I decided to set the ball rolling and got up to dance.

English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: Play away from home
Meaning: To be unfaithful; to have sex with someone who is not your usual partner.
Example: She stuck on her decision to divorce because she discoverd her husband playing away from home.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: A man of action
Meaning: A man who is inclined to act first rather than think about things and discuss them.
Example: Bill is really a man of action. Since he arrived at the top of the association, he has done so many things.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: An arm and a leg
Meaning: A lot of money.
Example: These glasses cost me an arm and a leg.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Nothing to sneeze at
Meaning: Not bad; decent; acceptable; worthwhile.
Example: Their music may not be worthy of radio time, but it’s nothing to sneeze at.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: To sell wolf tickets
Meaning: To make empty threats or promises; to bluff
Example: You’re selling wolf tickets.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Every man has his price
Meaning: The phrase every man has his price means that everyone can be bribed if you know how much or what to bribe him or her with.
Example: “I offered him ten thousand dollars to sign the agreement, but he refused.”Just keep trying! Give him more. You know, every man has his price!”

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: It’s not rocket science
Meaning: If something is not rocket science, it is not difficult to understand.
Example: 1. It’s just an easy math problem. It isn’t rocket science. 2. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the solution.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Lick someone’s boots
Meaning: The phrase lick someone’s boots means to act in a servile or obsequious way toward someone, especially to gain favor from them. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone’s shoe in The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo, offering to lick his shoe CALIBAN I’ll not serve him; he’s not valiant.
Example: She seizes every opportunity to lick the boss’s boots.