English Idioms

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 “Religion”
Idiom: Religious about doing something
Meaning: If someone is religious about doing something, they are strict and conscientious about it.
Example: He is religious about respecting the law.

English Idioms About “Time”
Idiom: Ahead of one’s time
Meaning: In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be; present in one’s work before later advances in the field.
Example: With his new scientific discoveries, he was ahead of his time.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Waste breath
Meaning: To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded.
Example: Please don’t waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: One’s word is law
Meaning: The idiom one’s word is law means that what someone says must be obeyed.
Example: There’s no point trying to do things differently. The manager’s word is law around here. Just do what he asks you to do.

English Idioms About “Men and women”
Idiom: Make a man of someone
Meaning: (Also make a man out of someone) to make a young person become more experienced or act like an adult and take responsibility.
Example: A couple of years in a foreign country will make a man of him.

English Idioms About “Relationship”
Idiom: Good fences make good neighbors
Meaning: (Also good walls make good neighbors) this means that people should respect other people’s property and privacy and mind their own business.
Example: Our neighbor should prevent his children from messing up our lawn. Good fences make good neighbors.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Well-oiled machine
Meaning: The phrase well-oiled machine refers to something that operates well.
Example: Their office ran like a well-oiled machine.

English Idioms About “Work”
Idiom: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Meaning: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is a proverb which means that it is not good to work all the time and that people may get bored if they don’t get some time off from work. This saying appeared first in James Howell’s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659), and was included in later collections of proverbs. Some writers have added a second part to the proverb: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
Example: I think you need to go out and have some fun. You know all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: X marks the spot.
Meaning: Said to show the exact spot.
Example: Would you mind moving that armchair here – X marks the spot.