English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Double-edged sword
Meaning: A benefit that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.
Example: Being a genius child is a double-edged sword because you cannot communicate with ordinary children.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Beat a dead horse
Meaning: (Also flog a dead horse.) To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.
Example: If you continue talking about something that cannot be changed, you are beating a dead horse.
English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Man in the street
Meaning: (Also, woman in the street) This idiom is used to describe an ordinary person.
Example: Generally speaking, politicians are rarely concerned with the needs and interests of the man in the street.
English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: In the money
Meaning: Very rich
Example: He’s in the money. He’s extremely rich.
English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Shoot the works
Meaning: To spend all the money you have or to try as much as you can to do something.
Example: We shot the works on our son’s education.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Like chalk and cheese
Meaning: (Also as chalk and cheese) When things or people are like chalk and cheese, they are different although they are superficially alike.
Example: His two sons are like chalk and cheese.
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: You got me there
Meaning: I can’t answer your question.
Example: I don’t kow what to say. You got me there!