English Idioms: Minting it

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Safe and sound
Meaning: Safe and without injury or damage.
Example: The kids returned from the excursion safe and sound.

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Love nest
Meaning: A place where a couple can enjoy each other’s company.
Example: They rent an apartment which has become their love nest.

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Bitter pill to swallow
Meaning: (Also swallow a bitter pill) Said about something unpleasant that must be accepted or endured.
Example: After the disappointment and defeat, to declare bankruptcy was a bitter pill to swallow for him.

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Name is mud
Meaning: If someone’s name is mud they are in trouble, disgraced, or discredited. The idiom’s origin is said to refer to Samuel Alexander Mudd (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) who was an American physician, imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd’s birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word “mud” meaning “a stupid twaddling fellow”.
Example: If she doesn’t prove her innocence, her name will be mud.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: In one’s cups
Meaning: Drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally.
Example: He couldn’t be understood because he was in his cups.

English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Thick as thieves
Meaning: Intimate, close-knit.
Example: Alan and John attended a boarding school together and were thick as thieves.