English Idioms: Trick of the trade

English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Cupboard love
Meaning: The phrase cupboard love refers to affection that is given purely to gain something from someone. The phrase comes from the way in which a cat will give the person who feeds it superficial “love”.
Example: It was just cupboard love, and what she really wanted was the money she used to get from him.

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: All one’s eggs in one basket
Meaning: the state of having invested heavily in just one area or of having devoted all of one’s resources to one thing.
Example: The stock market decline wouldn’t have hurt him so badly if he hadn’t had all his eggs in one basket

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Separate the wheat from the chaff
Meaning: To separate things of value from things of no value.
Example: We got a lot of applicants for the job. But we are trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Sitting duck
Meaning: Said about someone or something vulnerable to attack.
Example: Because of his unpopular opinions about foreign policy, he made of himself a sitting duck.

English Idioms About “Health”
Idiom: Hale and hearty
Meaning: In a good health.
Example: In spite of her old age, she looks hale and hearty.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Up to the minute
Meaning: The most modern
Example: The internet is an excellent source of up to the minute news.