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Idioms
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a word or phrase which has a different meaning to the meaning we would find if we looked in a dictionary. Different countries have different idioms. Idioms are always fun to learn! Here are some popular idioms from English speaking countries! Click the Idiom to find out more!
This list of English idioms includes a selection of popular idioms. We will continue to add new idioms to this list. If you see an interesting idiom or an idiom that you don't understand, please leave a comment below.
A
- A piece of cake
- A whale of a time
- An eager beaver
- Ants in your pants
- As busy as a bee
- As cool as a cucumber
- As free as a bird
- As sick as a parrot
B
- Bang your head against a brick wall
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Below the belt
- Birthday suit
- Blow your own trumpet
- Blowing hot and cold
- Bookworm
- Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
- Brain dead
- Break the ice
- Butterflies in my stomach
C
- Catch someone's eye
- Chin wag
- Chip on his shoulder
- Choppy waters
- Close but no cigar
- Cost him an arm and a leg
- Copycat
- Cry your eyes out
- Cut off your nose to spite your face
D
- Do a runner
- Don't be such a chicken
- Don't count your chickens until they're hatched
- Don't cry over spilt milk
- Don't hold your breath
- Don't rock the boat
E
F
G
H
I
- I'll be a monkey's uncle
- I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
- In one ear and out the other
- It never rains but it pours
- It's raining cats and dogs
J
K
L
- Lend me your ears
- Let sleeping dogs lie
- Let the cat out of the bag
- Like talking to a brick wall
- Like turkeys voting for Christmas
- Like watching paint dry
- Lose your mind
M
N
O
P
- Pain in the neck
- Paint the town red
- Party animal
- Pay through the nose
- Pigs might fly
- Pinch of salt
- Play gooseberry
- Plenty more fish in the sea
- Pulling my leg
- Put a sock in it
- Put my thinking cap on
- Put your money where your mouth is
Q
R
S
T
- Take a rain check
- That doesn't float my boat
- The cat that's got the cream
- The lights are on but nobody's home
- The pot calling the kettle black
- There's one born every minute
- Thick as two short planks
- Throw your toys out the pram
- Tickled pink
- Tie the knot
- Time flies
- Turn over a new leaf
- Twist someone's arm
- Two left feet
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V
W
X
Y
Z
Add a Comment
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Comment by Bassam taweel on May 31, 2013 at 13:32 -
Thank Jamie !
You did a very useful for job for us
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on January 10, 2013 at 10:09 -
That's a good way to learn Angizeh.
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Comment by Angizeh hamidi on January 10, 2013 at 9:37 -
I love the way of your teaching first I think about it then look the answer
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Comment by Ngo Thanh Cong on December 15, 2012 at 4:13 -
:)
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on December 13, 2012 at 9:52 -
You're welcome Slavica and Cong!
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Comment by Ngo Thanh Cong on December 13, 2012 at 9:28
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thank you teacher :) from this chart we can have a full view of idioms. :)
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Comment by Slavica on December 12, 2012 at 15:31 -
Great job teacher!!!!!! Thank you!!!:D
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on June 26, 2012 at 10:24 -
Great! Enjoy these idioms Bui.
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Comment by Bùi Thanh Nga on June 26, 2012 at 10:20
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Thank you, Jamie^^! They 'r interesting. i'll try to learn them all and i 'll start right now!!!:)
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on June 25, 2012 at 11:04 -
That's correct Hendayani. It means to be independent - to be able to do what you want without any worries. That's a good idiom. :)
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Comment by hendayani lestari on June 13, 2012 at 10:04 -
I ever heard someone said you are as free as a bird. does it mean someone who is independent or what ?
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Comment by Gertraud Müller on January 23, 2012 at 17:22 -
Great, thank you.... no , I don't know all the idoms but I'll learn them. :)
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Comment by Renata Barbosa Lopes on December 29, 2011 at 21:08 -
Very nice, really interesting (:
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on December 22, 2011 at 11:30 -
Thanks Natalia! I'm happy that you like it. I will add more idioms in time.
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Comment by natalia on December 20, 2011 at 16:11 -
wow, well done jamie:)
in my experience, i remember only those words, idioms and so on, that i meet a lot of time in a text. when the word stucks in my mind i go to find out the meaning of it. just this mathod of learning are suitable for me. so i'll check out the page futher:)
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Teacher Comment by English Teacher Jamie on December 19, 2011 at 2:48 -
You're welcome!
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Comment by fang on December 18, 2011 at 13:18 -
Ta! Teacher :D That is very interesting ^^
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