English Idioms

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Nervous Nellie
Meaning: A nervous Nellie refers to someone whose personality and usual behavior are characterized by worry, insecurity, and timidity.
Example: He is a nervous Nellie; He can’t make a decision without the approval of wife.

English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: The battle of the sexes
Meaning: The phrase the battle of the sexes refers to the conflicts and disagreements between men and women.
Example: Gender equality is meant to end the battle of the sexes.

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Poison pill
Meaning: The phrase poison pill refers to is a type of defensive tactic used by companies against a takeover.
Example: Many companies have used poison pill strategies against hostile takeovers.

English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Call the tune
Meaning: To be the one who controls a situation; to have the most power and authority in a situation
Example: In any deal you have with banks, it’s them who call the tune.

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Close to home
Meaning: If something is close to home, it affects you personally.
Example: His criticism was a bit too close to home. She couldn’t bear the way he talked about her work.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Meaning: The phrase eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth refers to a principle found in Babylonian Law, in the Code of Hammurabi, as well as in monotheist religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to this principle a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree.
Example: If he killed the poor woman, he deserves to die. It’s as simple as that – an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Call someone names
Meaning: To call someone by unpleasant, abusive or insulting names.
Example: Because he called his teacher names, Bill was punished.

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Be in deep water
Meaning: To be in serious trouble.
Example: The government is in deep water because of its plans for tax increases.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: In a split second
Meaning: In just very short time.
Example: Every thing was calm. But just in a split second a storm hit the whole region causing a lot of victims.

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Name is mud
Meaning: If someone’s name is mud they are in trouble, disgraced, or discredited. The idiom’s origin is said to refer to Samuel Alexander Mudd (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) who was an American physician, imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd’s birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word “mud” meaning “a stupid twaddling fellow”.
Example: If she doesn’t prove her innocence, her name will be mud.