English Idioms

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Nurse someone back to health
Meaning: To look after a sick person until he recovers.
Example: He is fortunate to have such a caring wife.She was glad to nurse him back to health.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Make a monkey out of
Meaning: (Also make a fool out of someone) to cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.
Example: Don’t make a monkey out of me. You’ll regret it.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Feast for the eyes
Meaning: Visually pleasing sight.
Example: Look at that painting. It’s really a feast for the eyes.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Turn back the clock
Meaning: (Also wind back the clock or roll back the clock) figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.
Example: When their relationship had started deteriorating, he told her that they should turn back the clock and just go back to when things were simpler.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Paddle one’s own canoe
Meaning: To act independently and decide your own fate; to do something by oneself.
Example: He’s been left to paddle his own canoe when he started his business.

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: The home stretch
Meaning: The last part of a difficult work.
Example: We are in the home stretch after a year of hard work.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Have something down to a science
Meaning: Said when you are able to manage doing something very well.
Example: They have the management of the concert down to a science.

English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Green with envy
Meaning: Consumed by envy; envious to the point where it is noticeable to others.
Example: She was green with envy when she saw my new car.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Lift the curtain
Meaning: To lift the curtain on something means: 1. to start. 2. to make something known or public; disclose.
Example: 1. It’s time to raise the curtain, guys. Let’s start working. 2. The company decided to lift the curtain on their new product.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Safety in numbers
Meaning: safety in numbers is the hypothesis that, by being part of a large physical group or mass, an individual is proportionally less likely to be the victim of a mishap, accident, attack, or other bad event.
Example: Nobody went sightseeing alone, knowing that there was safety in numbers.