English Idioms

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Big bucks
Meaning: Lots of money.
Example: The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Drive someone up the wall
Meaning: To irritate or annoy someone; to make a person very angry or bored; to infuriate.
Example: Her persistent nagging drove me up the wall.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Make a clean breast of
Meaning: To tell the truth; to confess.
Example: After he had lied about the stolen money, he was urged to make a clean breast of it.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Dead loss
Meaning: Something described as a dead loss is absolutely unsuccessful or useless (a complete failure)
Example: When it comes to math, my sisiter is a dead loss.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Under the influence
Meaning: Intoxicated, inebriated, or otherwise stupefied by an ingested mind-altering substance, commonly speaking of alcohol : drunk.
Example: He was arrested for driving under the influence.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Take it on the lam
Meaning: To run away.
Example: The criminal had to take it on the lam.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Them and us
Meaning: Used when describing disagreements or differences especially between different social groups
Example: There is a them and us situation in the company after the disagreement between the boss and his workers about the working conditions.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Jangle someones’s nerves
Meaning: To annoy someone or or make them nervous.
Example: The noise of the kids jangled my nerves.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: As patient as Job
Meaning: If someone is as patient as Job, they are very patient. The person who shows great endurance through all sorts of trials is said to have the patience of Job. This idiom is a simile related to the religious figure Job mentioned as a prophet in all Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ones, his health and all his property. His struggle and his patience to understand his situation leads him to get a reward from God restoring his health, doubling his original wealth and giving him a lot of children and grandchildren. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset with hideous and dreadful events that bereft him of his loved by
Example: If you want to work with that temperamental woman you must be as patient as Job.