English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Bear one’s cross
Meaning: If someone bear one’s cross they endure burden or difficulties. A cross is a Christian religious symbol. It is viewed as a symbol of Jesus’s crucifixion.
Example: I know it is a difficult situation you are experiencing, but you have to bear your own cross. I can’t help you. I am sorry.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Blow one’s own horn
Meaning: (Also toot one’s own horn) to brag; to talk boastfully.
Example: Nancy likes to blow her own horn.
English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: 101
Meaning: In the American educational system 101 indicates an introductory course, often with no prerequisites. The meaning has been extended to include any introduction to the basics of anything.
Example: You can find healthy recipes in any 101 cook book.
English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Be dead to the world
Meaning: To be sleeping.
Example: I think she has woken up. She was dead to the world ten minutes ago.
English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Rags to riches
Meaning: The phrase rags-to-riches refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth.
Example: He was homeless and went on to create the largest and most successful service company in the country. It’s really a rags-to-riches story.
English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Man of straw
Meaning: A weak person.
Example: When his wife needed his support, he run away and left her facing all the problems all alone. That is why, she called him a man of straw after all.
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: To this day
Meaning: Until now.
Example: He disappeared and to this day nobody knows what happened to him.