English Idioms: Dead loss

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin
Meaning: This is a proverb which means that if you intend to marry a woman, first try to win her mother on your side.
Example: Listen Joe, if you want to marry Nancy, try to impress her mother first and be sure that she is on your side. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Behind closed doors
Meaning: In private; in one’s private life.
Example: What you do with your partners behind closed doors is none of my business.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: To wash one’s hands of
Meaning: To absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for.
Example: I wash my hands of this whole affair.

English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: For the life of me
Meaning: This idiom is used colloquially to mean “if one’s (own) life depended on it.” It
Example: I couldn’t for the life of me remember where I met her.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Easy come, easy go
Meaning: Said about something which is easily won or obtained and then soon spent or lost.
Example: He lost a large amount of money in poker. But that’s gambling; easy come, easy go.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Paddle one’s own canoe
Meaning: To act independently and decide your own fate; to do something by oneself.
Example: He’s been left to paddle his own canoe when he started his business.