English Idioms: Highways and byways

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Add fuel to the fire
Meaning: (Also add fuel to the flames) to make a problem worse; to say or do something that makes a bad situation worse.
Example: Don’t add fuel to the fire by laughing at him. He is furious about what you have already done

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Wheels fall off
Meaning: Said about something that has failed, often after a laborious, tiring process.
Example: Our team was doing well for a while, but they got tired and then the wheels fell off.

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Cupboard love
Meaning: The phrase cupboard love refers to affection that is given purely to gain something from someone. The phrase comes from the way in which a cat will give the person who feeds it superficial “love”.
Example: It was just cupboard love, and what she really wanted was the money she used to get from him.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Not for a minute
Meaning: Not at all.
Example: I don’t want you to fail in your project. Not for a minute.

English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: All’s fair in love and war.
Meaning: In love or in war, you are allowed to be deceitful in order to get what you want.
Example: To get her to go out with him, he lied and told her that is very rich. All’s fair in love and war.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Cold day in hell
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that something will never happen.
Example: It’ll be a cold day in hell before I accept his apologies.