Learn English Idioms Land

19 марта 2017 13:23

📚07 Handy Colour Idioms.

Life is colourful and in English, we have idioms related to colours that will improve your English fluency and make your speak English confidently.They are fun to learn and easy to use.

1⃣) Born with a silver spoon
✅ Someone who is born into a rich family. Has all the wealth and privilege.
Example 🔹 John can afford to go to the medical college, he was born with a silver spoon.

2⃣) To catch someone red handed
✅To catch someone doing something wrong or illegal or private.
Example 🔹I boyfriend is cheating on, so she is planning to follow him and catch him red handed.

3⃣) White lie
✅ Innocent lie to protect another person’s feelings.
Example 🔹 We told Sharon that her chicken pie was delicious, which was actually a white lie.

4⃣) Tickled pink
✅ To be very pleased or delighted by someone or something.
Example 🔹 I was tickled pink to receive flowers from my husband.

5⃣) Yellow-bellied
✅Someone who is extremely timid or coward
Example🔹Ron is yellow bellied and is never willing to fight for what is right.

6⃣) Talk a blue streak
✅ To talk too much and rapidly
Example🔹 She talked a blue streak all night long.

7⃣) Black sheep of a family
✅ A person who is a disgrace to a family or a group.
Example 🔹Sam is a black sheep of the family. He’s always in trouble with the cops.

📚 @IdiomsLand 🇺🇸🇬🇧💯

Learn English Idioms Land

15 марта 2017 18:31

Idiom of the Day

✳️in a nutshell
INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: You can say "in a nutshell" if you're about to describe something as briefly as possible, or you're going to sum something up.
For example:

🔹It's a very complex situation, but the problem is, in a nutshell, a lack of sales.

🔹The president's in trouble and the reason, in a nutshell, is that people no longer trust him.

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

11 марта 2017 22:13

@IDIOMSLAND

Learn English Idioms Land

10 марта 2017 04:09

💥To sit down with.
☑️This means to spend time with someone in order to discuss something.

💥I'm screwed.
☑️This means that one is doomed, is in big trouble, or has made a huge mistake.

💥I'll bet.
☑️This is a hyperbolic or sarcastic way of saying "certainly" or "of course".

💥Who knows.
☑️This is a hyperbolic or sarcastic way of saying "I don't have any idea or clue".

💥This is a piece of cake!
☑️This means a task will be easy.

💥Put your eye on it.
☑️This means to watch or monitor something or a person/persons closely and carefully.

💥Wear your heart on your sleeve, To air your dirty laundry.
☑️This means to be open, maybe too open, about your feelings in the public, or to talk to other people about personal things that you should keep private.

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

07 марта 2017 12:11

⭕️Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’

💥Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well

💥Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly

💥Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all

💥Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy

💥Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them

💥Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask

💥Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong

💥Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly

💥Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food

💥Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

05 марта 2017 11:27

✳️Back to the drawing board
☑️When an attempt fails and it's time to start all over.

✳️Ball is in your court
☑️It is up to you to make the next decision or step

✳️Barking up the wrong tree
☑️Looking in the wrong place. Accusing the wrong person

✳️Be glad to see the back of
☑️Be happy when a person leaves.

✳️Beat around the bush
☑️Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.

✳️Best of both worlds
☑️Meaning: All the advantages.

✳️Best thing since sliced bread
☑️A good invention or innovation. A good idea or plan.

✳️Bite off more than you can chew
☑️To take on a task that is way to big.

✳️Blessing in disguise
☑️Something good that isn't recognized at first.

✳️Burn the midnight oil
☑️To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting.

@idiomsland
#B

Learn English Idioms Land

03 марта 2017 08:33

🔹Example sentences from the web:

✳️He loved his garden and maintained it with great care. It was a real labour of love and it was a pleasure watching him work in the garden.
✳️To establish a field site and balance research with family life was a labor of love: my wife, Claudia Valeggia, a biological anthropologist as well, was beginning her field research on the reproductive ecology of the Toba-Qom indigenous communities of northern Argentina.

Learn English Idioms Land

03 марта 2017 08:31

🔹Example sentences from the web:

✳️I don’t know, and I don’t care, because he just got every single one of us off the hook.
✳️I guess she thought she could use your file and pathetic past to get you off the hook.
✳️He counted on his friends to get him off the hook.

Learn English Idioms Land

27 февраля 2017 19:48

💥A bit much
🔹If something is excessive or annoying, it is a bit much.

💥A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
🔹This means that processes, organisations, etc, are vulnerable because the
weakest person or part can always damage or break them.

💥A day late and a dollar short
🔹(USA) If something is a day late and a dollar short, it is too little, too late.

💥A fool and his money are soon parted
🔹This idiom means that people who aren't careful with their money spend it quickly. 'A fool and his money are easily parted' is an alternative form of the idiom.

@IDIOMSLAND
#A

Learn English Idioms Land

27 февраля 2017 16:00

⭕️sell like hot cakes
🔹Things that sell like hot cakes sell quickly or in large quantities.

▶️"She's a very successful author. Her books always sell like hot cakes."

@IDIOMSLAND
#C

Learn English Idioms Land

27 февраля 2017 15:57

✳️about turn/about face

☑️This term refers to a complete change of opinion or policy.

💥"The ambassador's recent declarations indicate an about turn in foreign policy."

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:32

🔘make a killing

☑️Meaning: If you make a killing, you make a lot of money from a sale or a deal of some sort.

🔹For example:

💥My aunt made a killing when she bought some shares in a company as soon as they were issued, and sold them a few weeks later for three times what she paid.

💥Lots of people made a killing when property values went so high back in the nineties.

@IdiomsLand
#M

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:31

📕a mixed blessing

✅Meaning: You can say something is a mixed blessing if it seems to be good, but in fact has bad effects as well as good effects.

🔹For example:

✳️Many scientists said discovering the power of the atom was a mixed blessing as it led to nuclear power, but it also made nuclear weapons possible.

✳️Getting the promotion was a mixed blessing because it means I spend less time with my family.

@IdiomsLand
#M

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:29

🔘a matter of life and death

☑️Meaning: If something is a matter of life and death, it's extremely important and it could involve someone's survival.

🔹For example:

💥Education about HIV and AIDS is a matter of life and death. If people aren't told to protect themselves with condoms, they could die from the disease.

💥Getting someone to hospital quickly after an accident or a heart attack is a matter of life and death. Just a few minutes can make all the difference.

@IdiomsLand
#M

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:25

🔘accidentally on purpose

✅If you do something intentionally, but pretend it was an accident, you do it accidentally on purpose.

✳️"I accidentally-on-purpose erased his email address so I couldn't contact him again."

Learn English Idioms Land

15 марта 2017 20:00

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

11 марта 2017 22:16

@IDIOMSLAND

Learn English Idioms Land

11 марта 2017 22:11

@IDIOMSLAND

Learn English Idioms Land

10 марта 2017 04:06

✳️not have a hope in hell (of doing something)

✅To not have any chance at all of doing or achieving something.

🔹With that giant supermarket opening up across the street, our little grocery store won't have a hope in hell of staying open.
🔹You think you can beat me? Ha! You don't have a hope in hell.

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

07 марта 2017 05:51

✳️'The Bee's Knees'

☑️When you refer to something as 'the bee's knees', it means that it is of excellent or very high quality.

📝The origin of this expression is largely unknown, although there are a number of theories. Some people believe that it is a reference to the fact that bees carry pollen in sacks on their knees, and that the expression therefore alludes to this concentrated goodness. Others maintain that the saying is just a corruption of the word 'business'.

✔️Another suggestion is that the 'bee' in question was actually Bee Jackson, a world champion Charleston dancer who was very popular in New York in the 1920's!

🔹"Try this chocolate. It's the bee's knees, it really is."

🔹 "Do you like my new shoes? I think they are the bee's knees."

@idiomsland

Learn English Idioms Land

05 марта 2017 11:24

💥A hot potato
✅Speak of an issue which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed

💥A penny for your thoughts
✅A way of asking what someone is thinking

💥Actions speak louder than words
✅People's intentions can be judged better by what they do than what they say.

💥Add insult to injury
✅To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.

💥An arm and a leg
✅Very expensive or costly. A large amount of money.

💥At the drop of a hat
✅Meaning: without any hesitation; instantly.

@Idiomsland
#A

Learn English Idioms Land

03 марта 2017 08:32

@Idiomsland
#pictural_idioms

Learn English Idioms Land

03 марта 2017 08:30

@Idiomsland
#pictural_idioms

Learn English Idioms Land

27 февраля 2017 16:00

✳️calculated risk
☑️A calculated risk is a risk taken with full knowledge of the dangers involved.

💥"The company took a calculated risk when they hired Sean straight out of college."

@IDIOMSLAND
#C

Learn English Idioms Land

27 февраля 2017 15:58

⭕️in cahoots with someone

☑️If one person is in cahoots with another, they are working in close partnership, usually conspiring to do something dishonest.

💥"There was a rumour that the Mayor was in cahoots with a chain of supermarkets"

@IDIOMSLAND
#C

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 20:48

A big cheese- an important or a powerful person in a group or family

A bird's eye view- a view from a very high place which allows you to see a large area

A bone of contention- something that people argue for a long time

A cock and a bull story- a story or an explanation which is obviously not true.

At the crack of the dawn- very early in morning

A cuckoo in the nest- someone in a group of people but not liked by them.

A litmus test- a method which clearly proves something

@IdiomsLand
#A

Idioms Group:
send your good idioms here👇
https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAD6Z911r_4pOriDvng

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:32

🔘made of money

☑️Meaning: If you are made of money, you have lots of money.

🔹For example:

✳️When I was in poor countries, everyone thought I was made of money because I could afford to take time off work and travel so far to their country.

✳️That guy Howard acts as if he's made of money, but I know for a fact that he's actually quite poor.

@IdiomsLand
#M

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:30

🔘a means to an end

☑️Meaning: You can say something is a means to an end if it's the way to reach a goal, or the way to achieve something.

🔹For example:

⭕️Rupert plays golf, but he doesn't really enjoy it. It's just a means to an end for him because so much business is done on the golf course these days.

⭕️The medical school interviews all candidates and tries to weed out people for whom becoming a doctor is just a means to an end. They don't want people whose real goal is making money.

@IdiomsLand
#M

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:26

🔘hold all the aces

✔️A person who holds all the aces is in a very strong position because they have more advantages than anyone else.

🔹"Given the high unemployment figures in some countries, employers hold all the aces."

Learn English Idioms Land

25 февраля 2017 11:24

⭕️above and beyond the call of duty

☑️If a person does something which is above and beyond the call of duty, they show a greater degree of courage or effort than is usually required or expected in their job.

💥"The fire-fighter received a medal for his action which went above and beyond the call of duty."