English Idioms: Keep your head above water

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Hit the ceiling
Meaning: To become very angry and start shouting.
Example: He hit the ceiling when he knew the truth.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: The dismal science
Meaning: The phrase the dismal science refers to the discipline of economics. The term drew a contrast with the phrase gay science which refers to song and verse writing the phrase the dismal science first occurs in Thomas Carlyle’s 1849 tract called Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he argued in favor of reintroducing slavery in order to regulate the labor market in the West Indies: Not a “gay science,” I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. Carlyle, Thomas (1849). “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question”, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL., p. 672.
Example: He is interested in history and the dismal science.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Put yourself in someone’s shoes
Meaning: To see how it feels when you put yourself in smoeone’s place.
Example: What could I have done to solve the problem? Just put yourself in my shoes.

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: In the air
Meaning: Said about something that is happening or about to happen.
Example: Everybody in the company know that change is in the air.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Marked man (Also marked woman)
Meaning: The idiom marked man refers to someone who is singled out as a target for vengeance or attack.
Example: As a witness to the murder, he knew he was a marked man.

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Be full of beans
Meaning: Said about someone who is active, lively, healthy and has a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
Example: He’s always full of beans when he goes to work.