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Notable English Idioms: Part 02

Fit as a fiddle - In good physical health.

Cheap as chips - Inexpensive or good value

Ball is in your court - It is up to you to make the next decision or step.

Jump ship - Leave a job, organization, or activity suddenly.

Ignorance is bliss - Life is good when you're naive to the hardships happening all around

All ears - Listening intently; fully focused or awaiting an explanation.

Barking up the wrong tree - Looking in the wrong place.

Drop a dime - Make a telephone call; to be an informant.

From scratch / to make from scratch - Make from original ingredients; start from the beginning with no prior preparation

By the skin of one's teeth - Narrowly; barely. Usually used in regard to a narrow escape from a disaster.

Right as rain - Needed, appropriate, essential, or hoped-for and has come to mean perfect, well, absolutely right.

No horse in this race - No vested interest in the outcome of a particular contest or debate

Basket case - One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic, or stress.

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

Raining cats and dogs - Raining really strong or hard.

Spill the beans - Reveal someone's secret.

Have eyes in the back of one's head - Someone can perceive things and events that are outside of their field of vision.

Once in a blue moon - Something that occurs very rarely.

You can say that again - That is very true; expression of wholehearted agreement

Kill two birds with one stone - To accomplish two different tasks at the same time and/or with a single action.

By the seat of one's pants - To achieve through instinct or do something without advance preparation.

Piss in one's cornflakes - To annoy, upset, or disappoint through spiteful or irresponsible behavior.

Split the whistle - To arrive just on time.

Chalk up - To attribute something to a particular cause.

Take the cake (US) - To be especially good or outstanding.

Take the biscuit (UK) - To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.

Clam up - To become silent; to stop talking.

Throw under the bus - To betray or sacrifice someone for selfish reasons.

Chew the fat - To chat idly or generally waste time talking.

Shoot the breeze - To chat idly or generally waste time talking.

Put the cat among the pigeons - To create a disturbance and cause trouble.

Cut a rug" - To dance

Trip the light fantastic - To dance

Call it a day - To declare the end of a task.

Cold shoulder - To display aloofness and disdain.

Bite the bullet - To endure a painful or unpleasant situation that is unavoidable.

Off the hook - To escape a situation of responsibility, obligation, or (less frequently) danger.

Thumb one's nose -To express scorn or to disregard.

Cut the cheese -To fart. Also cut the mustard

Add insult to injury - To further a loss with sarcasm or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.

Tie one on - To get drunk.

Hit the sack/sheets/hay - To go to bed to sleep.

Have a blast - To have a good time or to enjoy oneself.

Hit the road - To leave.

Take with a grain of salt - To not take what someone says too seriously; to treat someone's words with a degree of skepticism.

Cut the mustard - To perform well; to meet expectations. Or to fart.

Preaching to the choir - To present a side of a discussion or argument to someone who already agrees with it; essentially, wasting your time.

Let the cat out of the bag - To reveal a secret.

Bust one's chops - To say things intended to harass.

Screw the pooch - To screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.

Champ at the bit or Chomp at the bit - To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

Grasp the nettle - To tackle a difficulty boldly.

To steal someone's thunder - To take credit for something someone else did.

Get bent out of shape - To take offense; to get worked up, aggravated, or annoyed

Bite off more than one can chew - To take on more responsibility than one can manage.

Pull somebody's leg - To tease or to joke by telling a lie.

Beat around the bush - To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally or to delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant.

Beat a dead horse - To uselessly dwell on a subject far beyond its point of resolution.

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

Under my thumb - under my control

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

Sunny smile - Very happy.

Back to the drawing board - When an attempt fails, and it's time to start planning all over again.

X Marks the spot - When someone finds something they have been looking for.

I bet - When you understand why someone has a particular opinion or feels a particular way; "of course", "indeed". May also be used sarcastically.

At the drop of a hat - Without any hesitation; instantly.

Heard it through the grapevine  - You learned something through means of a rumor.

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100 Articles on Idioms and Phrases 

We Have A Situation, Picking Up Some Chinese (Food)

Origin: Phrases Derived from Various Sources, Part 1

Getting Warmer, The Suffix, -ish, Coming To A Head, Hitting the Books

Cold Case, On Ice

What's Your Beef, Not Quite So Simple

A Lame Duck, lame duck session

Pain At The Pump, Slogging One's Way, Being Outdoors

A Number Of Something, A Product Line, To Kill A Product Line

A Big Freeze,To Be In, Or Not In, Arm-Twisting

Won Over, Sweeteners

Last-Minute, Propelled By, Squeaking By

You See, I See

Blowing A Gasket, Lost In Translation

Nothing To Lose, It Can't Hurt, A Babe In The Woods

Neck Of The Woods, Turning The Other Cheek, A Loudmouth

An Odyssey, Getting One's Feet Wet

Significant Other, Having Something To Say

Through and Through, A Crying Shame

Tell Us How You Really Feel, Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Begging On Hands And Knees, The Front Burner & The Back Burner

Wilderness and Errand Themed Idioms, In The Wilderness

Surging and Ebbing, Playing Your Cards Right

Positive and Negative Advertisements, Enthusiasm Gap

Through The Barrel Of A Gun, Man Up,

A Case For Action, Darkening, Brightening, Salvaging Victory

Political Battlegrounds, Pumping Money, A Wave Of Ads, Ramping Up Spending

English Proverbs With Their Meanings

Smooth Sailing, Rough Sailing, Sailing To Victory, Going Solar, Zombie Banks

Taking The Temperature (of a group), Buck Up

Show Some Backbone, Have / Grow A Spine, Breathing Down Someone's Neck, Front Runner Status

Staring Down The Barrel Of...., In Line (To Succeed), Up For Grabs, Band-Aid Solution

A Blip, A Wave, A Tsunami/ A Tidal Wave, A Method To One's Madness, Crowning Achievement

Easier Said Than Done, In Store, Jumping The Shark, Heading Downhill

In All Seriousness, Digging It, Giving A Damn, A.M. and P.M., Keep Up The Good Work

To Keep Something Coming, Make My Day, Forcing Something, Turning The Page

Mission Accomplished, I Can't Thank You Enough, Words Fail Me, At A Loss For Words

"I Can't Hear You!", To Snatch Away, At The Top Of Your Lungs, Hanging Your Head (In Shame)

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Leaving It All On The Field, Cool, Hot, To Trust Blindly, I'm Free

Cultural Epicenter, I'll Let You Kick This One Off, Did You Get Him, Something You Can Live With, Meeting In The Middle

The Day of Reckoning, Aiming For Something, Hopping Mad, You've Gotta Be Kidding Me

Idioms Review

Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater, Off The Reservation, At First Blush

Smelling A Rat, A Packrat, A Frog In Your Throat

When Pigs Fly, Horsing Around, An Eager Beaver, Dropping Like Flies

Wolfing Food Down, Pigging Out, Opening A Can Of Worms

A White Elephant, The Tip of the Iceberg

Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag, A Fat Cat

Making Waves, Go With The Flow, Down to Earth

A Stick-In-The-Mud, A Sight For Sore Eyes, Raining On Someone's Parade

Under the Weather, Having Your Head In The Clouds

Literal vs. Figurative

Weathering the Storm

Stealing Someone's Thunder, Hitting the Sack, Hitting the Hay, Digging Deep, Cheesy

A Bad Apple, A Bad Egg, One's Bread and Butter, A Piece of Cake

In A Nutshell, Egg on your Face, A Hot Potato, Hitting the Sauce, Gravy Train etc.

Riding Someone's Coattails, Caught On Tape, Armed to the Teeth, Seeing Eye To Eye

Flipped On Its Head, In The Heart Of, I Feel Like A Million Bucks, On The Line

Notable English Idioms: Part 01

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