IDIOMS

IDIOMS

"A"

• A bad apple / egg: A bad influence, Some one who bring trouble.
• A couch potato: An idle person
• A hard nut to crack: A difficult person to understand, A difficult problem to solve
• A piece of cake: Easy
• A smart cookie: A clever person
  
  

"B"

• Big cheese: An important person
• Bread and butter: The necessities

"C"

• Caught red handed: catch some one in the act.
  Sentence:
  * The kids got caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jar.

"D"

• Doesn't cut the mustard: Doesn't meet the required standard

"E"

• Eating humble pie: To be forced to apologize humbly, suffer humiliation.
  Sentence:
  * He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.

"F"

• Food for thought: Worth considering

"G"

• Gone pear shaped: Gone unexpectedly wrong

"I"

• In a nutshell: simply put
• In a pickle: In trouble, mess


• In the red: owe money.
  Sentence:
  * By the end of the week, I am always in the red.
  
  
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"K"

• Kettle of fish: An awkward, difficult or bad situation, Muddle, mess a state of affair, A matter under consideration.
  Sentence:
  * The new proposal is quite a different kettle of fish from the last one.

"L

• Lion's share: The majority; A large or generous portion
  Sentence:
  * The gang stole a lot money from the bank. But the lion's share of the money went straight into the leader's pocket.
  
  
• Look like mutton dressed as lamb: Said about a woman who tries to look like much younger.
  Sentence:
  * Her skirt is too short. She looks like mutton dressed at lamb.

"N"

• Nit picker: One w who worried about small details Or A person who find faults (however small or unimportant, everywhere they look.)

"P"

• Paint the town red: Have a great time or party.
  Sentence:
  * We painted the town red when I was on vacation.

"R"

• Red in the face: Angry
  Sentence:
  * My sister was red in the face after she had found her car was stolen.
  
  
• Red as a lobster: A bad sun burn
  Sentence:
  * She is red as a lobster, after a day at the beach.
  
  
• Red tag sale: Special sale.
  Sentence:
  * I love it when stores have red tag sales.

"U"

• Unsung hero: Some one who has been very brave but has never been appreciate.

"Z"

• Zero hour for: The time to start work on.