IdioPhrases - a large collection of English idioms with examples

Simple worldly logic will tell you that the stag party (party deer male) - a stag and hen party (party chickens) - bachelorette party. :) With many other English idioms will be more difficult. However, they will not remain a mystery for you, if you look at IdioPhrases - web collection of 600 English idioms.

Authors IdioPhrases rightly point out that without the knowledge of idioms can not fully master the language. And we must pay tribute to the compilers of the collection: the material submitted affordable way. Each example is accompanied by a real speech, subtitles and text explanation.

The collection of more than 600 IdioPhrases difficult to understand phrases and single words. For dating are some of them.

budgie smugglers

All smugglers budgies straightforward: stuffing the poor birds in shorts and go to the passport control with a proud outline below the belt. Approximately the same look a man in tight swimming trunks. The idiom refers precisely to this garment.

To burn the candle at both ends

Only a Martian on a quiet sadness come to mind to burn the candle at both ends. However, the phrase means absolutely the opposite situation: the heavy workload at work, for which it is necessary to sit up late.

Cleaning out the closet

By tradition, all the skeletons stored in the closet. Idiom implies that it is time to get rid of them, to break photo of the former past to pieces and cross the threshold into a new life.

Damned if you do damned if you do not

Try to read this sentence without hesitation the first time. Certainly it did not work, and you think that the attempt was initially doomed to failure. Approximately the same secret idiom still comes out poorly, whatever you did.

To have a few too many

Alcohol in small doses is harmless in any quantity. This truism knows every Saturday reveler. Idiom mentioned in the case when a person has touched, drank a lot of times a little bit, such as a time - the small, the second time - only on the bottom, the third time - polprobki and all in the same spirit.

Until hell freezes over

Surely this idiom would have the way to the wedding of a cartoon minions of evil spirits: "And your heart will be together until hell freezes (ie, forever)." Sounds, is not it?

Tit for tat

The literal translation of these three words may seem strange - "teat of junk." However, in reality we are talking about the equivalent response, as they say, a tooth for a tooth.

Fly on the wall

Modern tracking facilities can be very tiny. Hence it becomes clear why the "fly on the wall" - a discreet observation from the outside.

From the horse's mouth

Horses - very silent creatures, but that does not mean that they have nothing to say. Try to talk with her, and from the meaning of the idiom, it will be a knowledgeable, reliable source of information.

To go round the bend

However, if you zavedet spiritual conversation with artiodactyl, you will take for a madman. Of course, all except the horse itself. Expression just means the loss of reason.

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