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    TheIdioms.com website has a large collection of the most famous and popular English idioms, explained by expert authors and teachers in a very comprehensive way. Each entry comes with several different examples, meaning and origin.

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  • Know Which Side One’s Bread is Buttered

    know which side one's bread is buttered,also, aware of which side his bread is buttered on Meaning to be cognizant of where one's interests lie in a given... Read more

    Posted on 15 February 2022

  • Fiddle While Rome Burns

    fiddle while Rome burns https://www.theidioms.com/fiddle-while-rome-burns/ Read more

    Posted on 10 February 2022

  • Yoke Around One’s Neck

    Meaning a fatiguing burden. a trouble for someone. something that oppresses people. an obligation. a smothering commitment. a debilitating restraint. a... Read more

    Posted on 09 February 2022

  • Get out of Dodge

    get out of dodge https://www.theidioms.com/get-out-of-dodge/ Read more

    Posted on 08 February 2022

  • Show the Door

    show the door https://www.theidioms.com/show-the-door/ Read more

    Posted on 08 February 2022

  • Tasted Blood

    tasted blood https://www.theidioms.com/tasted-blood/ Read more

    Posted on 04 February 2022

  • by and by

    Meaning Example Sentences By and by, she paused to make sure everyone was paying attention. The taxi ride to the airport seemed to go on forever, but by... Read more

    Posted on 01 February 2022

  • Break the News

    break the news https://www.theidioms.com/break-the-news/ Read more

    Posted on 31 January 2022

  • a Wet Blanket

    a wet blanket https://www.theidioms.com/a-wet-blanket/ Read more

    Posted on 30 January 2022

  • Get One’s Feet Wet

    Meaning to begin taking part in a new activity to try or experience something new or risky (especially for the first time) to start doing something new in... Read more

    Posted on 29 January 2022

  • Go Bananas

    Meaning become very angry or act crazy "go bananas" means to visibly become either excited or angry about something a person could be extremely happy about... Read more

    Posted on 27 January 2022

  • Blue Alert

    Meaning a "blue alert" is issued for assistance from the public to catch the suspect. stage II of the warning, indicating an approaching storm or... Read more

    Posted on 26 January 2022

  • Bones Day

    Meaning a fruitful or productive day A bones day means a productive one. While it is by no means a guarantee, a person will say that he or she is going to hav... Read more

    Posted on 25 January 2022

  • It’s Not Brain Surgery

    Meaning to indicate that a specific task is simple and easy to undertake to mock someone who describes a simple task as involving much more than it really... Read more

    Posted on 12 January 2022

  • Come to Blows

    come to blows https://www.theidioms.com/come-to-blows/ Read more

    Posted on 11 January 2022

  • Take the Cake

    take the cake https://www.theidioms.com/take-the-cake/ Read more

    Posted on 18 October 2021

  • Run Across

    Meaning meet someone by accident cross something while running experience a problem you're not expecting. find something you weren't looking for pay what... Read more

    Posted on 08 October 2021

  • in Mint Condition

    in mint condition https://www.theidioms.com/in-mint-condition/ Read more

    Posted on 16 September 2021

  • Where the Rubber Meets the Road

    where the rubber meets the road https://www.theidioms.com/where-the-rubber-meets-the-road/ Read more

    Posted on 30 August 2021

  • Happy Go Lucky

    happy go lucky https://www.theidioms.com/happy-go-lucky/ Read more

    Posted on 14 August 2021