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 “Religion”
Idiom: As patient as Job
Meaning: If someone is as patient as Job, they are very patient. The person who shows great endurance through all sorts of trials is said to have the patience of Job. This idiom is a simile related to the religious figure Job mentioned as a prophet in all Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ones, his health and all his property. His struggle and his patience to understand his situation leads him to get a reward from God restoring his health, doubling his original wealth and giving him a lot of children and grandchildren. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset with hideous and dreadful events that bereft him of his loved by
Example: If you want to work with that temperamental woman you must be as patient as Job.
English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Necessity is the mother of invention
Meaning: This proverb means that when people really need to do something, they will find a way to do it.
Example: When her pen had run out of ink, she used her lipstick to write a short note to her husband who was at work.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Rabbit hole
Meaning: (From Alice in Wonderland) A way into a bizarre world.
Example: School’s starting up again, time to “Go Down the Rabbit Hole” once more.
English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Draw the curtain on / over
Meaning: To draw the curtain on or over something means to bring it to an end.
Example: I think it’s time for me to draw the curtain on a long career of teaching.
English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: God forbid
Meaning: (Also Heaven forbid)said when you hope that something does not happen.
Example: God forbid that they encounter a problem on their way home.
English Idioms About “Age”
Idiom: Under age
Meaning: The phrase under age means to be too young to be eligible for something.
Example: This program is not for people under age.