English Idioms About “Nature”
Idiom: Sail close to the wind
Meaning: When you sail close to the wind you act just within the limits of what is legal or acceptable.
Example: His business is doing well although he sometimes sail close to the wind.
English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Be an item
Meaning: Said about a couple when they are having a romantic relationship.
Example: I heard that Leila and Joe are an item.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Light skirt
Meaning: The phrase light skirt refers to a loose woman, a prostitute.
Example: Don’t call her a light skirt. She is a respectable woman.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: She’ll be apples
Meaning: Everything will be all right.
Example: ‘What about our trip to the mountain. They say it will snow all night long ‘Don’t worry. She’ll be apples.’
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Grouse about someone or something
Meaning: To complain.
Example: He was grousing about his son’s laziness.
English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Pay your dues
Meaning: The phrase pay your dues means to earn respect or a position by a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
Example: They want me to resign, but everybody knows that I paid my dues to get this position.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Fall out of love
Meaning: To stop being in love with someone.
Example: She fell out of love with him when she knew he had been hiding secrets from her.