English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: Poverty is not a crime (Also poverty is no sin)
Meaning: This expression is used to mean that it is not a crime to be poor and that we shouldn’t condemn people for their poverty.
Example: I don’t know why the police are chasing those poor people out of town. Poverty is not a crime.
English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: Name is mud
Meaning: If someone’s name is mud they are in trouble, disgraced, or discredited. The idiom’s origin is said to refer to Samuel Alexander Mudd (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) who was an American physician, imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd’s birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word “mud” meaning “a stupid twaddling fellow”.
Example: If she doesn’t prove her innocence, her name will be mud.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Keep your head above water
Meaning: Be just able to make enough money to survive.
Example: After his financial problems,he can hardly keep his head above water.
English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Throw in the towel
Meaning: (Also throw in the sponge) to admit defeat.
Example: After a long fight agaisnt his enemies, he finally threw the towel.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Yoke around someone’s neck
Meaning: A burden.
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English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Beat around the bush
Meaning: To treat a topic, without mentioning its main points, often intentionally, because the topic is difficult or unpleasant.
Example: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what the the problem is!
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Over my dead body
Meaning: If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will not allow it to happen.
Example: He says he will become our boss. Over my dead body!