English Idioms

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Run out of steam
Meaning: If you run out of steam, you lose the energy, enthusiasm or interest to continue doing something.
Example: After having worked for twenty years as a the manager of the company, he seems to run out of steam.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Forbidden fruit
Meaning: Illicit pleasure or something desired that cannot be had.
Example: She has always been his forbidden fruit because she’s his teacher.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Put words in somebody’s mouth
Meaning: To attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something.
Example: I hope I’m not putting words in your mouth. Did you just tell me to go home early?

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Work like a charm
Meaning: If something works like a charm, it works works very well. The phrase contains the word charm which means a magic spell.
Example: I installed the application on my cell phone and it works like a charm.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Put the cart before the horse
Meaning: To put things in the wrong order
Example: To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Walk of life
Meaning: An occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.
Example: People in this neighbourhood come from different walks of life.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Dance with death
Meaning: Try to do something that involves a lot of risks.
Example: He danced with death when he tried to negotiate a deal with that dangerous criminal.

English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Stool pigeon
Meaning: A decoy or an informer, especially one who is a spy for the police.
Example: He was killed by a gangster because he was thought to be a stool pigeon.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: In the eyes of the law
Meaning: Legally.
Example: In the eyes of the law you are not allowed to treat people like that.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Cut your losses
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that you should do something to avoid losing any more money.
Example: When he felt that his project was failing, he had to sell everything to cut his losses.