English Idioms: Gain ground

English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Dead wood
Meaning: Workers no longer contributing to an organization.
Example: There’s a lot of dead wood in this company.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Send up a trial balloon
Meaning: To test public opinion and response to something.
Example: They had an excellent idea for the project. They sent up a trial balloon but the response was very negative.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Moment of truth
Meaning: A deciding instant; the time when a test determines or makes it apparent whether something will succeed.
Example: This is the moment of truth, answer the questions of the test.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Traffic jam
Meaning: A lot of vehicles causing slow traffic.
Example: We got stuck in a traffic jam for more than an hour.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Dead loss
Meaning: Something described as a dead loss is absolutely unsuccessful or useless (a complete failure)
Example: When it comes to math, my sisiter is a dead loss.