English Idioms: Birthday suit
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Birthday suit
Meaning: The idiom birthday suit is a slang term for the naked human body.
Example: It was embarrassing for her to be seen in her birthday suit.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Birthday suit
Meaning: The idiom birthday suit is a slang term for the naked human body.
Example: It was embarrassing for her to be seen in her birthday suit.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Pull somebody’s leg
Meaning: To tease or fool someone when trying to convince them to believe something which is not true as a joke.
Example: Are you pulling my leg? Is it really your house?
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Drastic times call for drastic measures
Meaning: Desperate times call for desperate measures is another variation of the idiom.
Example: We had to let go five of our workers because the company had problems selling the new product. Drastic times call for drastic measures!
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Take a stab at
Meaning: The phrase to take a stab at means to attempt or try.
Example: I know the question is difficult to answer. Yet, I’d like to take a stab at answering it.
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 “Clothes”
Idiom: Light skirt
Meaning: The phrase light skirt refers to a loose woman, a prostitute.
Example: Don’t call her a light skirt. She is a respectable woman.
English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Time is money
Meaning: A proverb which means that one should not waste time, because one could be using it to earn money.
Example: I have to wake up and go to work – time is money