English Idioms: Cross swords

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Backseat driver
Meaning: 1. A passenger in a car who insists on giving the driver directions. 2. Anybody offering unsolicited or unwelcome advice.
Example: My brother is such a backseat driver. I hate traveling with him.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Curl your lip
Meaning: An upward movement of the side of the mouth to show dislike and disrespect.
Example: He asked her not curl her lip at him.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Lie like a rug
Meaning: To lie like a rug means to tell lies shamelessly.
Example: She says she didn’t kill him, but the detective knows she’s lying like a rug.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Chalk something up to inexperience
Meaning: To attribute a failure to inexperience and learn from that particular experience.
Example: Chalk it up to inexperience, I guess, but he made a very poor decision.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Lay down the law
Meaning: Tell people what they should do in a forceful and stern way.
Example: Please don’t lay down the law; we know what we have to do.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Quick one
Meaning: To have a drink before going somewhere.
Example: Let’s have a quick one before we go to work.