English Idioms: Take a stab at
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Take a stab at
Meaning: The phrase to take a stab at means to attempt or try.
Example: I know the question is difficult to answer. Yet, I’d like to take a stab at answering it.
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Take a stab at
Meaning: The phrase to take a stab at means to attempt or try.
Example: I know the question is difficult to answer. Yet, I’d like to take a stab at answering it.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: In a body
Meaning: Said when a group of people do something together.
Example: The workers went in a body to the boss to ask for higher wages.
English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Cold day in hell
Meaning: This idiom is used to mean that something will never happen.
Example: It’ll be a cold day in hell before I accept his apologies.
English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Take the fifth
Meaning: To decline to answer, especially on grounds that it might be incriminating. The origin of the phrase dates back to the Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which says that a person can’t “be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
Example: If you ask me who stole the wallet, I will simply take the fifth.
English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Get out of a jam
Meaning: Get out of a bad situation.
Example: I need some help getting out of a jam.
English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: Larger than life
Meaning: Very imposing, renowned, or impressively influential.
Example: He is such a special man; somewhat larger than life.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Fish for compliments
Meaning: To try to induce someone to make a compliment.
Example: He is fishing for compliments.