English Idioms: Take it on the lam

English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Laugh up your sleeve
Meaning: To be secretly amused.
Example: They’re very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they’re laughing up their sleeves.

English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: A number cruncher
Meaning: a number cruncher refers to someone whose job is to work with numbers and mathematics. It may also refer to a computer that is able to solve complicated problems of mathematics.
Example: 1. He’s a number cruncher. He works for a big firm of accountants. 2. Number crunchers are used on election night to try and forecast the result.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Apple of somebody’s eye
Meaning: Said about someone whom you love the most and you are very proud of.
Example: His son is the apple of his eye.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Keep the wolf from the door
Meaning: To have enough money to be able to ward off poverty or hunger.
Example: They were really very poor, but they had enough to keep the wolf from the door.

English Idioms About “Travel”
Idiom: Put the cart before the horse
Meaning: To put things in the wrong order
Example: To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Match made in heaven
Meaning: The phrase a match made in heaven refers to two people, so well-suited to each other that their marriage is likely to be happy and successful. The phrase may also refer to a very successful combination of two people or things.
Example: As soon as they met, they liked each other and decided they should get married. They were really a match made in heaven.