English Idioms: Off the beaten track

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Bring home the bacon
Meaning: Get a job and bring home money earned from this job.
Example: When her husband got fired, she decided to look for a job because someone’s got to bring home the bacon.

English Idioms About “Furniture”
Idiom: Doormat
Meaning: The phrase To be a doormat or to be treated like a doormat describes a weak person who is abused by others and submits to domination.
Example: His colleagues treat him like a doormat.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Rack one’s brain
Meaning: (Also rack one’s brains) to think very hard about something.
Example: I’ve racked my brain all day long, but I still can’t remember where I put the keys.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Meaning: The phrase between the devil and the deep blue sea is an idiom referring to a dilemma, a choice between two undesirable situations. The phrase was first used by Robert Monro in his expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mac-keyes, 1637: I, with my partie, did lie on our poste, as betwixt the devill and the deep sea. A variation of this idiom is: between a rock and a hard place
Example: She is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. She has to choose between staying with her nasty husband and leaving him, taking care of her children all alone.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Necessity is the mother of invention
Meaning: This proverb means that when people really need to do something, they will find a way to do it.
Example: When her pen had run out of ink, she used her lipstick to write a short note to her husband who was at work.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Rome wasn’t built in a day
Meaning: Said to emphasize that great work takes time to do. Nothing of importance can be done in a short period of time.
Example: Don’t expect immediate outstanding earnings fom your new buisiness. Rome wasn’t built in a day.