English Idioms

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Traffic jam
Meaning: A lot of vehicles causing slow traffic.
Example: We got stuck in a traffic jam for more than an hour.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: The customer is always right.
Meaning: In order to make profit, it is necessary for a business to satisfy customers’ wishes and make them happy.
Example: Look at that waiter! He always argues with customers. He doesn’t know that the customer is always right.

English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: Play the field
Meaning: To have many sexual relationships.
Example: He’s not the kind of person to think of getting married. He’s quite happy to play the field.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Blessing in desguise
Meaning: A blessing in disguise is said when a misfortune has some unexpected benefits
Example: His failure to pass the exam was a blessing in disguise. This made him realize the importance of hard work.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Made of money
Meaning: Be rich.
Example: She can’t have another car.Her husband is not made of money!

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Easy on the eye
Meaning: Attractive, pleasant to look at.
Example: Her paintings are easy on the eye.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: The dismal science
Meaning: The phrase the dismal science refers to the discipline of economics. The term drew a contrast with the phrase gay science which refers to song and verse writing the phrase the dismal science first occurs in Thomas Carlyle’s 1849 tract called Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he argued in favor of reintroducing slavery in order to regulate the labor market in the West Indies: Not a “gay science,” I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. Carlyle, Thomas (1849). “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question”, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL., p. 672.
Example: He is interested in history and the dismal science.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Company man
Meaning: The phrase company man refers to a worker who is more loyal to his employer than to his fellow workers.
Example: He’s never criticized the boss; he has always been a company man.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: By the numbers
Meaning: If you do something by the numbers, you are doing it in a strict, mechanical way, without using your imagination or creativity.
Example: His work is done by the numbers. There is nothing original about it!