🔘Lightning fast🔘
✅extremely fast
✳️I don’t think we can keep up with him, he’s got a lightning fast bike.
✳️The robbery lasted only a minute, and then the robbers disappeared in a lightning fast car.
🔘Storm in a teacup🔘
✅exaggerating a problem, anger or worry about something unimportant
✳️Their debate was only a storm in a teacup – actually neither of them took the problem too serious.
✳️The reports about the demonstration are a storm in a teacup – there wasn’t as much violence there as they say.
🔘Raining cats and dogs🔘
✅pouring, raining very heavily
✳️Where are you going, can’t you see it’s raining cats and dogs? You’ll get soaked in a minute if you go out now.
✳️They didn’t go to the theme park because it was raining cats and dogs almost all day.
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🔘a bit of fluff
(Also a bit of skirt.) A sexually attractive woman.
🔹I saw him yesterday with a bit of fluff.
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🔘Chase rainbows🔘
✅waste time trying to achieve something impossible
✳️My wife never believed I would make it as an executive manager; she always thought I was just chasing rainbows.
✳️Can’t you see you’re only chasing rainbows? There’s no way to get this girl marry you.
🔘Face like thunder🔘
✅being clearly very angry or upset
✳️I don’t know what was happening, I just saw that a man with a face like thunder was chasing a little boy out of the grocer’s shop.
✳️She didn’t say anything but her face was like thunder; she slammed the door as she left, and we haven’t seen her ever since.
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🔘a breath of fresh air
✅said about a new, fresh, and imaginative approach, a change that feels good.
🔹The president says that the country needs a breath of fresh air.
Category | #nature
Idioms are words, phrases or expressions which are commonly used in everyday conversation by native speakers of English. They are often metaphorical and make the language more colourful. People use them to express something more vividly and often more briefly. They serve as an image or mental picture.
Example:- Let the cat out of the bag: If you let the cat out of the bag, you reveal a secret.
N.B. It is important to remember that idiomatic expressions are used when speaking informally. They are not used in formal exchanges.