English Idioms: Raw deal

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 “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 “Death”
Idiom: Dead to the world
Meaning: Said about someone who is sound asleep or unconscious.
Example: He slept right through the night and was still dead to the world when I went out.

English Idioms About “Weather”
Idiom: Bolt from the blue
Meaning: This refers to a complete surprise; something totally unexpected. In this phrase there is an allusion to a stroke of lightning from a clear blue sky.
Example: The news that they are getting a divorce was a bolt from the blue.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: In God’s name
Meaning: (Also in the name of God, in the name of heaven,in God’s name, in heaven’s name) used to add emphasis.
Example: What in God’s name did you do to that poor girl?

English Idioms About “Names”
Idiom: I can’t put a name to someone
Meaning: Said when you can’t remmeber someone’s name.
Example: She was my classmate. I remember her face but I can’t put a name to her.