English Idioms: Oceans of

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Make a fast buck
Meaning: (Also make quick buck) to earn money without much effort.
Example: If you have got any idea of how to make a fast buck, please tell me!

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: In bad shape
Meaning: In bad physical condition.
Example: Bill is in bad shape. He needs to exercise regularly and go on a diet.

English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Green light
Meaning: Permission to go ahead with something such as a project.
Example: As a result of the severe drought, the government has given the green light for importing cereals.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: The dismal science
Meaning: The phrase the dismal science refers to the discipline of economics. The term drew a contrast with the phrase gay science which refers to song and verse writing the phrase the dismal science first occurs in Thomas Carlyle’s 1849 tract called Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he argued in favor of reintroducing slavery in order to regulate the labor market in the West Indies: Not a “gay science,” I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. Carlyle, Thomas (1849). “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question”, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL., p. 672.
Example: He is interested in history and the dismal science.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Reinvent the wheel
Meaning: To waste one’s time doing something that has already been done satisfactorily.
Example: Just use our guide book to and don’t try to reinvent the wheel.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Company man
Meaning: The phrase company man refers to a worker who is more loyal to his employer than to his fellow workers.
Example: He’s never criticized the boss; he has always been a company man.