English Idioms: Go steady with someone
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Go steady with someone
Meaning: To date one person regularly and exclusively.
Example: Lisa has been going steady with that guy for a year now.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Go steady with someone
Meaning: To date one person regularly and exclusively.
Example: Lisa has been going steady with that guy for a year now.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Keep the wolf from the door
Meaning: To have enough money to be able to ward off poverty or hunger.
Example: They were really very poor, but they had enough to keep the wolf from the door.
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Call it a day
Meaning: To stop working for the rest of the day.
Example: Why don’t we call it a day? I’m really tired.
English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Call someone names
Meaning: To call someone by unpleasant, abusive or insulting names.
Example: Because he called his teacher names, Bill was punished.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: It takes two to tango
Meaning: the expression it takes two to tango means that for something to work properly the cooperation of both parties is needed. Tango is a dance originating in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The phrase originated in a song, Takes Two to Tango, which was written and composed in 1952 by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning.
Example: For the success of the negotiations, both companies should make some concessions; it takes two to tango, you know.
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 “Age”
Idiom: Coon’s age
Meaning: The idiom a coon’s age refers to a very long period of time.
Example: It’s been a coon’s age since I last went to the theater.