English Idioms: Love nest

English Idioms About “Death”
Idiom: Dead to the world
Meaning: Said about someone who is sound asleep or unconscious.
Example: He slept right through the night and was still dead to the world when I went out.

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Jekyll and Hyde
Meaning: Jekyll and Hyde refers to someone having a dual personality, one side of which is good and the other evil. The origin of the phrase comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
Example: She’s a real Jekyll and Hyde. You never know when she will become unpleasant.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Cut your losses
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that you should do something to avoid losing any more money.
Example: When he felt that his project was failing, he had to sell everything to cut his losses.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: An arm and a leg
Meaning: A lot of money.
Example: These glasses cost me an arm and a leg.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Cash cow
Meaning: This idioms refers to someone or something that generates a steady return of profits; a moneymaker. The term cash cow is a metaphor for a “dairy cow” used on farms to produce milk, offering a steady stream of income with little maintenance.
Example: 1. The typewriters production which had been their cash cow for so many years witnessed a collapse of sales. 2. The young actress turned out to be the cash cow for most Hollywood studios.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: The straw that broke the camel’s back
Meaning: A small and seemingly insignificant addition to a burden that renders it too much to bear; the small thing which causes failure, or causes inability or unwillingness to endure any more of something
Example: When the boss saw him coming late to work. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. He fired her immediately.