English Idioms: Highway robbery
English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Highway robbery
Meaning: This expression is used to refer to a price or a fee that is exorbitantly high.
Example: The price for wine in this restaurant is simply highway robbery
English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Highway robbery
Meaning: This expression is used to refer to a price or a fee that is exorbitantly high.
Example: The price for wine in this restaurant is simply highway robbery
English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: In the pink
Meaning: Healthy.
Example: He has been in the pink since he decided to go on a diet and exercise regularly.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Match made in heaven
Meaning: The phrase a match made in heaven refers to two people, so well-suited to each other that their marriage is likely to be happy and successful. The phrase may also refer to a very successful combination of two people or things.
Example: As soon as they met, they liked each other and decided they should get married. They were really a match made in heaven.
English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Get into deep water
Meaning: To be in trouble.
Example: He got into deep water when he joined that gang.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Pain in the neck
Meaning: An annoyance.
Example: The teacher’s last assignment is really a pain in the neck.
English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Hold someone accountable (for something)
Meaning: To consider someone responsible for something.
Example: I hold you accountable for whatever happens to my daughter.
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: No comment
Meaning: An “official” refusal to relay any further information, as a response to a newspaper reporter’s question.
Example: The district attorney said, “No comment,” when the reporter asked if he knew the identity of the criminal.