English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: About as useful as a chocolate teapot
Meaning: Saying something is about as useful as a chocolate teapot means that it is totally useless.
Example: A car in a heavy traffic jam is as useful as a chocolate teapot. Use a bike instead!
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Eye candy
Meaning: A very attractive person or persons or any object or sight with considerable visual appeal.
Example: 1. I’m going to the beach to check out some eye candy.2. The computer graphics added lots of eye candy to that movie.
English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Have too much on one’s plate
Meaning: The idiom have too much on one’s plate means to be too busy. Another variation of this idiom is have a lot on one’s plate.
Example: I have too much on my plate right now. I can’t help you.
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Feel your age
Meaning: The phrase feel your age means to realize that you are growing old.
Example: I really felt my age at work. All my colleagues looked very young.
English Idioms About “Weather”
Idiom: Every cloud has a silver lining
Meaning: This expression is used to say that there is always something good even in an unpleasant, difficult or even painful situation. The origin of this expression is most likely traced to John Milton’s “Comus” (1634) with the lines, Was I deceiv’d, or did a sable cloud. Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
Example: You should never feel hopeless. Every cloud has a silver lining, you know
English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Join the club
Meaning: Said as a reply to someone to mean that they are in the same situation.
Example: Nancy: “I’ve got problems with my husband these days.” Alice: “Join the club!”
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Below the salt
Meaning: If someone is below the salt they are common or of low standing.
Example: In medieval times servants used to sit below the salt.