20 Amazing Animal Idioms in English
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1️⃣fish for something - to try to get information from someone.
2️⃣a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle(slogan) - a feminist slogan, suggesting that men are superfluous to women's needs.
3️⃣teach fish to swim(proverb)- tell someone something which he/she has already known.
4️⃣beat a dead horse - to continue fighting a battle that has been won.
5️⃣horse trade - to bargain in a hard and skillful way.
6️⃣as weak as a kitten - weak, sickly.
7️⃣a fraidy-cat - someone who is easily frightened.
8️⃣in a pig's eye - unlikely.
9️⃣make an ass of yourself - if you behave so stupidly that you appear ridiculous, you make an ass of yourself.
🔟bee's knees - to say that someone/something is the bee's knees means that you think they are exceptionally good.
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16 ways to use the word WAY in English. Idioms and expressions with WAY.
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16 ways to use the word WAY in English. Idioms and expressions with WAY.
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My computer shut down unexpectedly while I was writing that essay, and I had to start again from scratch.
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🔘Click into place: 🆔 @idiomsland
✔️Become suddenly clear and understandable.
for example:
▪️Given this info, everything soon clicks into place.
🅿️ick up the tab (for something)
also pick up the bill (for something)
☑️to pay for something, esp. for what someone else has bought or used:
🔹The company will pick up the tab for this trip.
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16 ways to use the word WAY in English. Idioms and expressions with WAY.
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16 ways to use the word WAY in English. Idioms and expressions with WAY.
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✅ Cook the books
👉 To change fact.
✅ Be cooking with gas
👉 To be doing something very well.
✅ Cook something up
👉 Invent something.
✅ Call something into play
👉 To make use of something.
✅ Call it a day
👉 To decide or agree to stop doing something.
✅ Call a shots/tune
👉 To be a person who controls a situation.
✅ A devil of a job.
👉 A very difficult job.
✅ Do the job.
👉 To be successful in doing what you want.
✅ Hope springs external.
👉People never stop hoping.
✅ Make good
👉 To become rich and successful.
✅ In two shakes
👉 Very soon
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🔘cross that bridge when you come to it
Definition of the Idiom:
☑️to worry about a problem when it actually happens and not before
🔺I might need a lawyer, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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