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Idioms

This document lists many common English idioms and their meanings arranged alphabetically. Idioms are phrases with meanings that cannot be understood just from the words themselves. The document provides over 50 English idioms for the reader.

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Idioms

This document lists many common English idioms and their meanings arranged alphabetically. Idioms are phrases with meanings that cannot be understood just from the words themselves. The document provides over 50 English idioms for the reader.

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Idioms

Over the moon Under the weather

With flying colors up in the air

In a nutshell To eat like a bird

A little bird told me when pigs fly

To beat around the bush To bite the bullet

To cost an arm and a leg To call it a day

To hit the sack To miss the boat

To pull someone’s leg To break the ice

To eat like a horse To rain cats and dogs

To spill the beans To have a bigger fish to fry

A piece of cake To be not one’s cup of tea

At the eleventh hour To let a cat out of bag

To have a butterfly in one’s stomach To be a black sheep

It’s your call To leave no stone unturned

To be a white elephant To eat like a pig

To be music to someone’s ears To feel blue

To shed the crocodile tears To be on the same page


One will not buy it To be in someone’s black books

To have cold feet To face the music

To pick someone’s brain To born with a sliver spoon

To roll up one’s sleeves To have a lot on one’s plate

To be dead to the world To chase the rainbows

To go bananas In black and white

Your guess is as good as mine You can say that again

We will cross that bridge when we come to it A penny for your thoughts

A perfect Storm Barking up the wrong tree

Every cloud has a silver lining A ball is in your court

The early bird gets the worm Curiosity killed the cat

There's no such thing as a free lunch Don’t beat a dead horse

To know which way the wind is blowing Like riding a bicycle

The pot calling the kettle black It’s not a brain’s surgery

To bleed someone’s dry (or white) It’s neck to neck

To hear sth straight from the horse's mouth It is always darkest before the dawn

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