English Idioms: Pay your dues

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Get off the track
Meaning: To start talking about a different topic, instead of talking about the real one.
Example: Instead of discussing the real reasons for their conflicts, they are getting of the track.

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Drag one’s feet
Meaning: To procrastinate, put off; to dawdle, avoid, or make progress slowly and reluctantly.
Example: He’s been dragging his feet about doing his homework.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: The straw that broke the camel’s back
Meaning: A small and seemingly insignificant addition to a burden that renders it too much to bear; the small thing which causes failure, or causes inability or unwillingness to endure any more of something
Example: When the boss saw him coming late to work. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. He fired her immediately.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Turn back the clock
Meaning: (Also wind back the clock or roll back the clock) figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.
Example: When their relationship had started deteriorating, he told her that they should turn back the clock and just go back to when things were simpler.

English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: There is honor among thieves
Meaning: When you say there is honor among thieves, this means that even among criminals there is honor and that they do not commit crimes against each other.
Example: The gangsters had a strong respect for their old boss which demonstrate that there is honor among thieves.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Waste breath
Meaning: To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded.
Example: Please don’t waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions.