English Idioms About “Colors”
Idiom: Yellow journalism
Meaning: Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
Example: This paper is practising yellow journalism with its reports on sex scandals.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Under one’s thumb
Meaning: Completely controlled by someone; at someone’s command.
Example: She has her husband under her thumb. He would do anything for her.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Skin and bones
Meaning: To be underweight and look bad, to be extremely thin.
Example: Because of her illness she was nothing but skin and bones.
English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: Fall from grace
Meaning: The idiom fall from grace refers to a loss of status, respect, or prestige. The idiom comes from a Christian reference to the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Example: The politician has fallen from grace and has become very unpopular.
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: Cream of the crop
Meaning: The phrase cream of the crop means the best of all.
Example: Don’t worry about your studies; you are the cream of the crop.
English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Pull the other leg
Meaning: Used when you do not believe what someone has just said.
Example: Sue, writing poems? Pull the other leg – she can’t even write a correct sentence!