English Idioms: Talk nineteen to the dozen
English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Talk nineteen to the dozen
Meaning: To speak very quickly.
Example: I couldn’t understand what he was saying because he was talking nineteen to the dozen.
English Idioms About “Numbers”
Idiom: Talk nineteen to the dozen
Meaning: To speak very quickly.
Example: I couldn’t understand what he was saying because he was talking nineteen to the dozen.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Make a monkey out of
Meaning: (Also make a fool out of someone) to cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.
Example: Don’t make a monkey out of me. You’ll regret it.
English Idioms About “War”
Idiom: Loose cannon
Meaning: The idiom “loose cannon” refers to a person who is unpredictable or uncontrolled and who is likely to cause unintentional damage.
Example: He is considered a loose cannon because he is unable to control himself.
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 “Love”
Idiom: Fall for someone
Meaning: To fall in love with someone.
Example: He fell for her because she’s so beautiful.
English Idioms About “Life”
Idiom: Take someone’s life
Meaning: To kill someone.
Example: The floods took hundreds of lives.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Put words in somebody’s mouth
Meaning: To attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something.
Example: I hope I’m not putting words in your mouth. Did you just tell me to go home early?