English Idioms: On all fours

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Bear one’s cross
Meaning: If someone bear one’s cross they endure burden or difficulties. A cross is a Christian religious symbol. It is viewed as a symbol of Jesus’s crucifixion.
Example: I know it is a difficult situation you are experiencing, but you have to bear your own cross. I can’t help you. I am sorry.

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: All hat and no cattle
Meaning: Describing someone who is full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
Example: We expect our president to be effective in his job, not a person who is all hat and no cattle.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Bring to knees
Meaning: To destroy or defeat someone or something.
Example: Sanctions were imposed in an attempt to bring the country to its knees.

English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Wait for the ball to drop
Meaning: To wait in expectation of an occurrence.
Example: When the scandal was publicly revealed, he waited for the ball to drop as he was involved.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Food for thought
Meaning: Information or knowledge that is worthy of contemplation.
Example: The ideas developed in this book have certainly given me food for thought.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Keep a civil tongue
Meaning: (Also keep a civil tongue in one’s head) to speak politely.
Example: Please don’t talk like that to each other. Keep a civil tongue!