English Idioms

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: The mother of all
Meaning: An extreme example which is the biggest, most impressive, or most important of its kind.
Example: Failure is the mother of all success.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Couch potato
Meaning: Lazy person.
Example: He is a couch potato.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Shoot the works
Meaning: To spend all the money you have or to try as much as you can to do something.
Example: We shot the works on our son’s education.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Against the clock
Meaning: To work or race against the clock means to do something as fast as possible and try to finish it before a deadline.
Example: The students were racing against the clock to finish the paper before the deadline.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Devil finds work for idle hands to do
Meaning: People are inclined to do frivolous or harmful things to get rid of their boredom when they don’t do anything useful.
Example: My husband made sure that the children are always occupied doing something because you know the devil finds work for idle hands to do.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Bean counter
Meaning: An accountant.
Example: The company is hiring a new accountant.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: High time
Meaning: If it’s high time you did something, it is the appropriate time for it.
Example: It’s high time you began learning how to drive.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Go in one ear and out the other
Meaning: Said about something which is heard and then quickly forgotten.
Example: Stop talking to him. Whatever you say to him just goes in one ear and out the other.

English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Breathe one’s last
Meaning: The phrase breathe one’s last means to die.
Example: After he had suffered from leukemia for years, he breathed his last at about three o’clock in the morning.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: A number cruncher
Meaning: a number cruncher refers to someone whose job is to work with numbers and mathematics. It may also refer to a computer that is able to solve complicated problems of mathematics.
Example: 1. He’s a number cruncher. He works for a big firm of accountants. 2. Number crunchers are used on election night to try and forecast the result.