English Idioms: Yoke around someone’s neck

English Idioms About “Parts of the body”
Idiom: Shake a leg
Meaning: Used to tell someone to rouse themselves from sleep and get out of bed.
Example: Shake a leg or we’ll miss the party!

English Idioms About “Food”
Idiom: Variety is the spice of life
Meaning: Frequent changes in one’s life makes life interesting.
Example: They frequently change the furniture of the house because they think that variety is the spice of life.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Play second fiddle
Meaning: To take a subordinate or weaker position than someone else.
Example: Bill doesn’t want to play second fiddle to his colleague any more. He feels he is more trained and more experienced.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Play a joke
Meaning: (Also play trick) to deceive someone for fun.
Example: On April fool’s day some people play practical jokes on their friends.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Grin like a Cheshire cat
Meaning: (Also smile like Cheshire cat.) To smile very broadly. This is an allusion to a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll’s depiction of it in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin.
Example: He knew that she was fearing a scandal. He stood in front of her, grinning like a Cheshire cat, waiting for more money in return for his silence.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Right on the button
Meaning: To be exactly right.
Example: Her remarks were right on the button.