English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: By the numbers
Meaning: If you do something by the numbers, you are doing it in a strict, mechanical way, without using your imagination or creativity.
Example: His work is done by the numbers. There is nothing original about it!
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Put years on
Meaning: If something puts years on somebody, it makes them look or feel much older.
Example: Hi financial problems put years on him.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Love at first sight
Meaning: An instantaneous attraction
Example: It was love at first sight when we met.
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Age before beauty
Meaning: A phrase said to allow older people to go before younger ones. Now most often used humorously or lightheartedly, and usually said by a younger person to an older friend or relative out of mock pity for being so much older and unattractive.
Example: Please, you first. Age before beauty, you know.
English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Love somebody to death
Meaning: To love somebody very much.
Example: He loves her to death.
English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: Charmed life
Meaning: The phrase “charmed life” refers to a life protected as if by magic charms. It describes a person who is very lucky and is strangely unaffected by dangers and difficulties. The phrase was first used by Shakespeare in his play, Macbeth in 1605. “Thou losest labor. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born.” The two lines: “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born” mean: “I lead a charmed life, which can’t be ended by anyone born from a woman.”
Example: Everybody believes that he leads a charmed life. He was lucky enough to survive after a terrible car accident.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Meaning: To support both sides of an argument.
Example: She never takes a clear position in any dispute. She always tries to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.