English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Necessity knows no law
Meaning: Necessity knows no law is a proverb. It means that being desperate and having no means may lead you to do illegal things.
Example: He was dealing in illegal drugs because he had to feed four kids. Necessity knows no law.
English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Money for jam
Meaning: (Also be money for old rope) said about a job when it is an easy way of earning money.
Example: Selling ice-cream is money for jam when it is very hot.
English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Have a lot on one’s plate
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that one is very busy and have commitments. Another variation of this idiom is have too much on one’s plate.
Example: Alice: Are you coming to the party tonight, Jane? Jane: No, I have a lot on my plate right now.
English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Fall in love
Meaning: To begin feeling attracted to someone and love him or her.
Example: When Jane and Math met for the first time, they fell madly in love.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Keep body and soul together
Meaning: To be able to pay for your food, clothing and somewhere to live.
Example: He earns barely enough to keep body and soul together.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Lick someone’s boots
Meaning: The phrase lick someone’s boots means to act in a servile or obsequious way toward someone, especially to gain favor from them. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone’s shoe in The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo, offering to lick his shoe CALIBAN I’ll not serve him; he’s not valiant.
Example: She seizes every opportunity to lick the boss’s boots.
English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Be on cloud nine
Meaning: Feel extreme happiness or elation
Example: She was on cloud nine when he proposed to marry her.