What’s the difference between a good English speaker and a great English speaker? Idioms! Read the following idioms and then test your understanding!
- Read through the following idioms and their meanings.
- Test your knowledge at the bottom of the page!
- Tie the knot (to get married)
- Break a leg (good luck)
- Mumbo jumbo (language intended to cause confusion)
- That was a piece of cake (that was easy)
- It’s raining cats and dogs (it’s is raining heavily)
- A storm in a tea cup (great drama over a trivial matter)
- Save one’s bacon (to escape loss or injury)
- Not everyone’s cup of tea (not everyone’s liking or taste)
- Bite your tongue (to avoid speaking)
- Turn to jelly (your legs feel weak because you are nervous or frightened)
- Icing on the cake (the best of the situation)
- As cool as a cucumber (to be relaxed)
- It’s a small world (you frequently see the same people in different places)
- In a pickle (to be in trouble)
- Cross your fingers (to hope that something happens)
- Cherry on the cake (the best of a situation)
- Under the weather (to feel ill)
- The early bird catches the worm (if you want to be successful you should do something immediately)
- Bend over backwards (willing to do anything)
- Be the apple of someone’s eye (something or someone cherishes above all others)
- Couch potato (someone who is lazy)
- It takes two to tango (both parties involved in a situation are responsible)
- Go nuts (to go crazy)
- Go/sell like hot cakes (things are selling fast)
- Hit the books (to study, especially for a test or an exam)
- Come rain or shine (whatever happens, I will never…)
- As red as a beetroot (blush from embarrassment)
- To spill the beans (to reveal a secret)
- A few sandwiches short of a picnic (when a person is lack of intelligence)
- Dead Meat (serious trouble)