English Idioms: Call someone names

English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Be on the ball
Meaning: To be well-informed and respond promptly.
Example: We need someone who’s on the ball to help us implement our plan.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Necessity is the mother of invention
Meaning: This proverb means that when people really need to do something, they will find a way to do it.
Example: When her pen had run out of ink, she used her lipstick to write a short note to her husband who was at work.

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Everything but the kitchen sink
Meaning: Almost everything, whether needed or not.
Example: She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Be glad to see the back of someone
Meaning: To be happy to get rid of someone; to be happy because someone has left.
Example: The youg man was glad to see the back of his father-in-law after he had stayed for a month.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Lick someone’s boots
Meaning: The phrase lick someone’s boots means to act in a servile or obsequious way toward someone, especially to gain favor from them. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone’s shoe in The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo, offering to lick his shoe CALIBAN I’ll not serve him; he’s not valiant.
Example: She seizes every opportunity to lick the boss’s boots.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Big bucks
Meaning: Lots of money.
Example: The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.