English Idioms: Weep buckets
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Weep buckets
Meaning: (Also cry buckets) to cry a lot.
Example: She cried buckets, because that was such a sad event.
English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Weep buckets
Meaning: (Also cry buckets) to cry a lot.
Example: She cried buckets, because that was such a sad event.
English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Zero hour
Meaning: The time when something is planned to begin (military)
Example: “This is the zero hour for the attack,” said the sergeant.
English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: Break your back
Meaning: If you break your back to do something, you work very hard to do it.
Example: I am not going to break my back to this job for such a low salary.
English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Talk through one’s hat
Meaning: To talk nonesense
Example: He was talking through his hat. I couldn’t understand what he was saying.
English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Old wives’ tale
Meaning: A wrong traditional theory or belief, often about health.
Example: The idea of drinking alcohol to relieve you from flu is an old wives’ tale.
English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Make a pig of oneself
Meaning: Said about someone who eats too much or too fast.
Example: He made a pig of himself at lunch.
English Idioms About “Love”
Idiom: Puppy love
Meaning: A childish or youthful infatuation with another person.
Example: As they were still very young nobody took their puppy love seriously.