English Idioms

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Pay your dues
Meaning: The phrase pay your dues means to earn respect or a position by a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
Example: They want me to resign, but everybody knows that I paid my dues to get this position.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Mister Right
Meaning: A perfect, ideal or suitable mate or husband.
Example: She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Have a card up your sleeve
Meaning: To have a secret plan
Example: She still has got something up her sleeve, and it should solve all her problems.

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Oceans of
Meaning: A large amount of something.
Example: Oceans of guests were at the party.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Do the trick
Meaning: Said about something that works.
Example: Some lemon juice should do the trick to make this sauce more delicious.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Highways and byways
Meaning: Major and minor roads.
Example: They spent their holiday exploring the highways and byways of the country

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Spring chicken
Meaning: To be old; not young anymore.
Example: She is not a spring chicken. She wouldn’t like to go partying with us.

English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Carry the ball
Meaning: To take charge and control of an activity and be considered reliable enough to do a job.
Example: He can’t carry the ball. He isn’t reliable.

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Go steady with someone
Meaning: To date one person regularly and exclusively.
Example: Lisa has been going steady with that guy for a year now.

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Men make houses, women make homes
Meaning: It’s often the men who build or acquire houses for their families, but it’s usually women who provide the things that make a house into a home.
Example: When her husband bought the house, she took charge of decorating and tidying it up. It’s true that men make houses, women make homes.