English Idioms: Not hold water

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Pay your dues
Meaning: The phrase pay your dues means to earn respect or a position by a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
Example: They want me to resign, but everybody knows that I paid my dues to get this position.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Wear the pants
Meaning: (Also wear the trousers)especially of a woman – to exercise authority or to be the person in charge in a relationship.
Example: He may seem authoritative, but the truth is that it’s his wife who really wears the pants in that relationship.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Armchair critic
Meaning: An armchair critic is a person who knows or pretends to know a lot about something in theory rather than practice.
Example: He is such an armchair critic; he has no experience in the subject but he is ready to give plenty of advice.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Scaredy cat
Meaning: Someone who is easily frightened.
Example: Come on, scaredy cat. The dog won’t bite you!

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: In God’s name
Meaning: (Also in the name of God, in the name of heaven,in God’s name, in heaven’s name) used to add emphasis.
Example: What in God’s name did you do to that poor girl?

English Idioms About “Home”
Idiom: Everything but the kitchen sink
Meaning: Almost everything, whether needed or not.
Example: She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.