English Idioms

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: See someone’s point
Meaning: To understand the meaning that someone is trying to convey.
Example: Yes, I see your point and I think you are absolutley right.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Nine to five
Meaning: Said about a job with normal daytime hours, a job that begins at nine o’clock in the morning and finishes at five.
Example: She’s tired of working nine to five.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Right down to
Meaning: Considering even minor things or people.
Example: We are all concerned with obeying the law, from the minister down to the common man.

English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Scream blue murder
Meaning: (Also shout blue murder or scream bloody murder) to shout or complain loudly because you are annoyed about something.
Example: Because he didn’t get what he wanted, he screamed blue murder.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Turn up like a bad penny
Meaning: A person or thing which is unpleasant, disreputable, or otherwise unwanted, especially one which repeatedly appears at inopportune times.
Example: He always turns up like a bad penny.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: At your mother’s knee
Meaning: Said about something that you learned when you were a child.
Example: She learned to sing at her mother’s knee.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: It’s about time
Meaning: Used to express impatience at the eventual occurrence of something that should have occurred a long time ago.
Example: It’s about time that women should be considered equal to men in this country.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Possession is nine points of the law
Meaning: Possession is nine points of the lawis a phrase used to suggest that if you really possess something, you will easily claim its ownership than someone who just says it belongs to him or her. The phrase comes from the early English property system, where the right to possession of property was endorsed by the king in the form of nine traditional writs. These writs evolved into the nine original laws defining property ownership, hence the expression “possession is nine points in the law.”
Example: The jacket you are wearing is presumed to be yours, unless someone can prove that it is not. Possession is nine points of the law.

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Everything but the kitchen sink
Meaning: Almost everything, whether needed or not.
Example: She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Are your ears burning?
Meaning: Said about someone who was not present but was the topic of discussion.
Example: We were just talking about you. Are your ears burning?