Idimatic Expression Definition:

    
 

   

 

 

 

Some Idiom Examples:

•"Kick the bucket"

•"Spill the beans"

This is a list of English idioms are arranged in categories, in this list I am going to spill the beans about all type of idioms:

    Age, Animals ,Clothes , Colors, Death ,Food, General, Health, Home, Law ,Love ,Men and women, Money  Names, Nature ,Numbers ,Parts of the body ,Relationship ,Religión ,Sexuality ,Sport ,Technology and Science, Time ,Travel ,War and Weather .

Some idioms  that refer to time include:

•           Time will tell: This means that something will revealed or become clear over time

•           In the nick of time: This means something happened just in time

•           Lost track of time: This means you stopped paying attention to the time or to how long something was taking

Idioms that Describe People

Some idioms  that describe people include:

•           As old as the hills: This describes someone very old

•           Fit as a fiddle: This describes someone in great shape

•           Without a care in the world: This describes someone who is not plagued by problems or worries

•           A diamond in the rough: This describes someone who has a great future.

•           Brave as a lion: This describes a very brave person.

•           Weak as a kitten: This describes a very weak person.

Idioms About Life, Love and Emotions:

•           Opposites attract: This means that people who like different things and have different views are likely to fall in love or to become friends

•           Scared out of my wits: This describes being very frightened

•           Frightened to death: This also describes being very frightened

•           All is fair in love and war: This cliché stands for the premise that you can do whatever you have to in order to capture the heart of your lover

•           All’s well that ends well: This means that even if there were problems along the way, it doesn't matter as long as there is a happy ending

Others idioms:

            Having “nerves of steel”

•           To “make up”

•           “Tail between his legs”

•           “Can it”

•           “All that glitters is not gold”

•           “Don’t get your knickers in a twist”

•           “All for one, and one for all”

did you know ?

       In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality.This principle states that the meaning of a whole should be constructed from the meanings of the parts that make up the whole. In other words, one should be in a position to understand the whole if one understands the meanings of each of the parts that make up the whole. The following example is widely employed to illustrate the point:

Fred kicked the bucket.

Understood compositionally, Fred has literally kicked an actual, physical bucket. The much more likely idiomatic reading, however, is non-compositional: Fred is understood to have died. Arriving at the idiomatic reading from the literal reading is unlikely for most speakers. What this means is that the idiomatic reading is, rather, stored as a single lexical item that is now largely independent of the literal Reading.

       In phraseology, idioms are defined as a sub-type of phraseme, the meaning of which is not the regular sum of the meanings of its component parts. John Saeed defines an idiom as collocated words that became affixed to each other until metamorphosing into a fossilised term^. This collocation of words redefines each component word in the word-group and becomes an idiomatic expression. Idioms usually do not translate well; in some cases, when an idiom is translated directly word-for-word into another language, either its meaning is changed or it is meaningless.

Benefit  to use idioms:

• idioms can make us  get fluent.
• idioms are very usable to write out poems.
• idiomatic expressions are best way to talk as native speakers.
• idioms are funny and interesting in their usages.
• when we use idioms we can show our intelligence and skills.

 When do not we  have to use idioms?

It is easy to respond this question , we should not use them at the moment of being in class , a conference , meetting or formal speeches, it is because  most of them are too much informal or vulgar so we must be careful to use idioms.

 Counsels to get idioms by heart    (I do not want to you be mad as a hornet for these advices!!!)

• First ,we have to know by heart one in a day.
• Second, don not memorize them as single words.
• third, write them out  on composition papers.
• include idioms on your daily speaking.

The most important  English poem writers who used idioms:

• William Shakespeare ( all that starts well ends well )

•Bear a charmed life (Macbeth)

•Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)

•Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra)

•Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John)

Curiosity about idioms and their explanatory images

This means to be very nervous.

                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To rain cats and dogs means to rain a lot.

 

 

 

 

This means to wait a momment

To fly off the handle means to lose our cool.

To be sick as a dog refers a person who is very unwell  

 

 

 

 This one refers someone is very quiet or who does not say anything.( has the cta got your tongue )

 

 

It means someboby who does not accept a mistake or defeat.( to eat crow ) 

 

Cartoons regarding to idioms:

 

This  means someone who is hurt by his own actions or being curiuos can get you into troubles.

 It refers to be saved on time.

 It means to go lucky.



 It means to suspect about something.



 To be in a pickle means to be in a mess.



Idiomatic Expression In Paragraphs


1.Our visit to the farm was great!  There was so much to see it felt like we were only there for two shakes of a lamb’s tail.  As we were touring the farm we made the teacher mad as a wet hen because we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off.  We made a beeline to the bus and buttered her up with everything we learned on our trip.

 

2.Let’s talk turkey.  Often students think teachers are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.  We are just trying to beef up your skills and also bring home the bacon.  We won’t butter you up just to get you to do your homework.  Most students think that homework is small potatoes anyway.  But remember, it is 10% of your six week’s grade and that is nothing to beef about.

Idimatic expressions used to make up poems(for doing poems be a tough cookie): 

My passion is as mustard strong;
I sit all sober sad;
Drunk as a piper all day long,
Or like a March-hare mad.

Round as a hoop the bumpers flow;
I drink, yet can't forget her;
For though as drunk as David's sow
I love her still the better.

Pert as a pear-monger I'd be,
If Molly were but kind;
Cool as a cucumber could see
The rest of womankind.

Like a stuck pig I gaping stare,
And eye her o'er and o'er;
Lean as a rake, with sighs and care,
Sleek as a mouse before.

Plump as a partridge was I known,
And soft as silk my skin;
My cheeks as fat as butter grown,
But as a goat now thin!



More idiomatic expressions  in poems:

The Idiom Of Love

 I was drinking wine

I was making minds mine

I was turning keys

I was setting people free

I was being deceived

to get your foot inthe door ( means to complete the first step in a process)

please! get your foot in  the door to compose poems

By the silent side of me

I was welcomed home

I was gone away

I was free to roam

I was told to stay

I was being confused

By the soul that I had used

I was flying by

I was flying high

I was never questioned why

I was prepared to die

I was beautified

By the ugly side of life

  was crying tears

 was drowning in my fears
 was feeling weak

I was releasing my years

I was afraid to peak

Afraid to get near

 I was smart enough to be a step ahead

She did more crying than I did

I was strong enough to be brave

She loved enough to be my slave

I was dumb enough to let her go

She was smart enough to lose hope

IDIOMS FOR SILLY PERSONS ( do not feel under a gun to write poems because they can make you bacome in second shakespeares). note: to be under a gun means to fell preassure to do something.

'You can't cry over spilled milk! '
my mother always said.

'Life's not a piece of cake! '
she hammered in my head.

'That's the way it goes,
' that's the way the cookie crumbles'

My mother saved her idioms
for all my idiotic troubles. John Randal



More idiom poems 

 

 

I hope you get a kick out of these videos ( keep in mind that the best way to learn idioms is to get by heart and practice them one by one every day so please! jot down the usable idioms which you will watch here).