English Idioms: Sweat blood
English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Sweat blood
Meaning: To work very hard.
Example: She sweats blood every day just to bring home the bacon.
English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Sweat blood
Meaning: To work very hard.
Example: She sweats blood every day just to bring home the bacon.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Let the cat out of the bag
Meaning: To reveal a secret, usually accidentally.
Example: She wasn’t supposed to know about it. Someone must have let the cat out of the bag.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Bear fruit
Meaning: The phrase bear fruit means to yield successful results.
Example: He thinks his new plan will undoubtedly bear fruit.
English Idioms About “Crime”
Idiom: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit
Meaning: The phrase the weed of crime bears bitter fruit means that nothing good comes from criminal schemes. The idiom comes from The Shadow radio drama broadcasted in the 1930s. The program is well-remembered for those episodes voiced by Orson Welles. The episodes start with: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of me. The Shadow knows”
Example: Don’t mislead yourself. You will pay for your crimes one day; the weed of crime bears bitter fruit.
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 “Food”
Idiom: Carrot and stick
Meaning: An offer involving a reward countered by the threat of punishment.
Example: The president took a carrot and stick approach to the protests against his new laws.
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: War of words
Meaning: An argument between two people or groups.
Example: The war of words between the two tcountries hasn’t ceased to for a long time.