English Idioms: Have the hots for someone
English Idioms About “Sexuality”
Idiom: Have the hots for someone
Meaning: To be strongly sexually attracted to someone.
Example: He has the hots for her but he can’t tell her. He’s so shy.
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English Idioms: Run for one’s life
English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: Run for one’s life
Meaning: To run for your life means to run away to save one’s life.
Example: A lion escaped from the zoo. Run for your life.English Idioms: Long in the tooth
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Long in the tooth
Meaning: very old.
Example: I think he is a bit long in the tooth to be a romantic hero in that play.English Idioms: Woman of ill repute
English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Woman of ill repute
Meaning: The idiom a woman of ill repute refers to a prostitute.
Example: He started a new relationship with a woman of ill repute.English Idioms: Weekend warrior
English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Weekend warrior
Meaning: A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present.
Example: The most common foot related injury I see for the weekend warrior is heel painEnglish Idioms: Under age
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Under age
Meaning: The phrase under age means to be too young to be eligible for something.
Example: This program is not for people under age.English Idioms: Lick someone’s boots
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Lick someone’s boots
Meaning: The phrase lick someone’s boots means to act in a servile or obsequious way toward someone, especially to gain favor from them. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone’s shoe in The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo, offering to lick his shoe CALIBAN I’ll not serve him; he’s not valiant.
Example: She seizes every opportunity to lick the boss’s boots.