English Idioms

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: All the more
Meaning: Even more.
Example: Her family didn’t want her to get married to her new boyfriend, but that just made her all the more determined.

English Idioms About “Law”
Idiom: Law of the jungle
Meaning: This expression means survival of the strongest or the fittest. The origin of the phrase can be traced back to “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling. He uses the term to describe an actual set of legal codes used by wolves and other animals in the jungles of India.
Example: Some economists think that capitalism is governed by the law of the jungle.

English Idioms About “Money”
Idiom: Rags to riches
Meaning: The phrase rags-to-riches refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth.
Example: He was homeless and went on to create the largest and most successful service company in the country. It’s really a rags-to-riches story.

English Idioms About “Music”
Idiom: Fine-tune
Meaning: To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved
Example: They need to fine-tune their plan before they start the project.

English Idioms About “General”
Idiom: Wait and see
Meaning: To wait to see what will occur after.
Example: The new manager hasn’t announced his new plan yet. We’ll have to wait and see.

English Idioms About “Science”
Idiom: Cog in the machine
Meaning: (Also a cog in the wheel) said about one part of a large system or organization
Example: He was just an important cog in the machine of organized crime.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Neither fish nor fowl
Meaning: Said of something not easily categorized or not fitting neatly into any established group.
Example: I can’t see what you want to say. Your proposal is neither fish nor fowl.

English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: God forbid
Meaning: (Also Heaven forbid)said when you hope that something does not happen.
Example: God forbid that they encounter a problem on their way home.

English Idioms About “Animals”
Idiom: Horse of a different color
Meaning: (Also horse of another color) a different matter.
Example: If you want to invest in the stock market, it’s ok. Gambling, however, is a horse of a different color.

English Idioms About “Sport”
Idiom: Ball someone or something up
Meaning: 1. To make a mess of, destroy or ruin; to interfere with someone or something. 2. To roll something up into a ball.
Example: 1. Someone has balled my car up. 2. She balled the paper up in anger.