English Idioms: Memory like a sieve

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Freudian slip
Meaning: The phrase Freudian slip (also called parapraxis) refers to a mistake in speech that shows what the speaker is truly thinking.
Example: Jane: He is such a bighead. Have you heard what he has just said?

English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Fan the flames
Meaning: To make a bad feeling or situation become worse or more intense.
Example: His racial declarations fanned the flames of the ethinc war.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Laugh up your sleeve
Meaning: To be secretly amused.
Example: They’re very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they’re laughing up their sleeves.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Pain in the neck
Meaning: An annoyance.
Example: The teacher’s last assignment is really a pain in the neck.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Let sleeping dogs lie
Meaning: To leave things as they are to avoid trouble.
Example: It would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the problem any further.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Be in somebody’s shoes
Meaning: To be in the situation that another person is in.
Example: I wouldn’t like to be in Nancy’s shoes. She’ll have a lot of problems with her boss.