English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Drag one’s feet
Meaning: To procrastinate, put off; to dawdle, avoid, or make progress slowly and reluctantly.
Example: He’s been dragging his feet about doing his homework.
English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Breathe one’s last
Meaning: The phrase breathe one’s last means to die.
Example: After he had suffered from leukemia for years, he breathed his last at about three o’clock in the morning.
English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: A new lease of life
Meaning: This idiom is used to refer to an occasion when something gives you the chance to become happy or healthy and makes you more energetic than before.
Example: His new job has given him a new lease of life.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Strike a chord
Meaning: If something strikes a chord with you, it reminds you of something, it seems familiar to you or you are interested in it.
Example: That woman struck a chord with me. It seems to me that I had seen her before.
English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Sail close to the wind
Meaning: When you sail close to the wind you act just within the limits of what is legal or acceptable.
Example: His business is doing well although he sometimes sail close to the wind.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Love is blind
Meaning: The idiom love is blind means that a person who is in love can see no faults or imperfections in the person who is loved.
Example: A: I can’t see why Leila likes Tim. He isn’t even good-looking. B: Love is blind.
English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Golden opportunity
Meaning: Ideal moment to do something.
Example: She missed a golden opportunity to prepare herself for a career as a doctor, when she didn’t continue her studies at university.