English Idioms: Matter of time
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Matter of time
Meaning: The phrase it is only a matter if time is used to say that something will certainly happen.
Example: It is only a matter of time before he resigns.
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Matter of time
Meaning: The phrase it is only a matter if time is used to say that something will certainly happen.
Example: It is only a matter of time before he resigns.
English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Draw in one’s horns
Meaning: (Also pull in one’s horns) to become less impassioned, aggressive, or argumentative; to back down from a fight; to yield or capitulate.
Example: He wanted to fight again but we managed to calm him down and get him to draw in his horns.
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Double-edged sword
Meaning: A benefit that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.
Example: Being a genius child is a double-edged sword because you cannot communicate with ordinary children.
English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: White as a sheet
Meaning: (Also as white as a sheet) said about someone whose face is very pale because of illness, shock or fear.
Example: Joe looks as white as sheet. He must be very ill.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Play cat and mouse
Meaning: to tease, confuse or fool someone by trying to trick them into making a mistake so that you have an advantage over them.
Example: The famous businessman spent his time playing cat and mouse with the judge.
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 “Religion”
Idiom: God knows
Meaning: This idiom means “only God knows.” Said when you have absolutely no knowledge of something.
Example: God knows what he’s going to do after his divorce.