English Idioms

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Public enemy number one
Meaning: The idiom public enemy number one refers someone or something that people hate.
Example: That terrorist is considered public enemy number one.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Push someone’s buttons
Meaning: (Also press someone’s buttons) draw a strong emotional reaction from someone, especially anger or sexual arousal.
Example: Don’t push my buttons with your silly comments.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Shape up or ship out
Meaning: To either improve one’s behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one’s performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.
Example: After his many serious mistakes, the boss warned him that he had to shape up or ship out.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Get something off your chest
Meaning: To reveal something that is worrying you or making you feel guilty in order to feel relieved.
Example: She felt relieved when she got it off her chest. She had felt guilty for years.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Kill time
Meaning: To kill time means to spend time doing nothing in particular.
Example: He had nothing in particular to do, so he went for a walk downtown to kill time.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Rain cats and dogs
Meaning: To rain heavily. It’s raining cats and dogs.
Example: How come that you are going out in that storm? It’s raining cats and dogs.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: A woman’s work is never done
Meaning: The proverb a woman’s work is never done means that a woman often works longer hours than a man because the housework and raising children are jobs that never end. The origin of the saying comes from an old rhymed couplet: Man may work from sun to sun, But woman’s work is never done.
Example: “A woman’s work is never done!”, said Leila. She added: “As soon as I finish washing the breakfast dishes, it’s time to start preparing lunch. Then I have to go shopping and when the kids are back home I have to help them with their homework.”

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Drive a hard bargain
Meaning: Negotiate forcefully.
Example: It’s gonna be a tough negotiations with them. They drive a hard bargain.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Dogs are barking
Meaning: If your dogs are barking, this means that your feet are hurting. Interesting fact: There is a brand of shoes called Hush Puppy. The connection between this brand and the expression “dogs are barking” is obvious: the shoes Hush Puppies are supposedly so comfortable and your feet won’t hurt when you wear them.
Example: My dogs are barking because I walked ten miles.

English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Go to war (over someone or something)
Meaning: To declare a war over someone or something.
Example: The US administration has gone to war over teenagers’ pregnancy for decades in vain.