What are Idioms?
A sentence whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learnt as a whole unit.
For Example: Barking up on the wrong tree means that you have understand something totally wrong.
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To rob Peter to pay Paul
Meaning: Taking money from one person in order to pay another.
Sentence: I am not going to ask my neighbour for some money in order to pay you. It would be like robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Feeling Blue
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
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A duck to water
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A lame duck
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A little bird told me.
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A piece of cake
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A pig in a poke
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a real peach
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A rotten apple
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A sitting duck
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A tree is known by its fruit
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All ears.
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All eyes on me.
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All hell broke loose.
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All in a day's work.
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All in your head.
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All over the map.
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All your eggs in one basket.
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another bite of the cherry
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As gentle as a lamb
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as good as a chocolate tea pot
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bear fruits
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Beef about
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Beef up
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bend over backwards
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blood is thicker than water
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Bowl of cherries
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bread and butter
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break a leg
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Bring home the bacon
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Brown as berry
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butterflies in one's stomach
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Cat get your tongue
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Chicken feed
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Chicken out
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Chicken-hearted
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Chickens will come home to roost.
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Chip on his shoulder
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Cold turkey
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Count my chickens before they're hatched.
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cup of tea
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end of the road
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Fishy
Meaning: suspecting
Sentence: Something is fishy about the accident.
for all the tea in China
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Forbidden fruit
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Fruit of labour
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Grouse about
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Ham it up
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Ham-fisted
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Hang in there
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Have a beef with
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Hold my ground.
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Hold my own.
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Hold on
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Hold up.
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Hold your horses.
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Hold your peace.
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Hold your tongue.
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Hung for a sheep as a lamb
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if something's a lemon
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in the same boat
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keep your chin up
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Like water of a duck's back
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Looks like mutton dressed as lamb
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Make a pig's ear of things
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Make a silk purse from a sow's ear
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Meat and potatoes
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Money burns a hole in pocket
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Money makes the world go around
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Money talks
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No spring chicken
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One man's meat is another man's poison
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Our for a duck
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Out of the blue
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place for sour grapes
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Put the cat among the piegons
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Put your money where your mouth is
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Racing against the clock
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Rise & shine
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Running around like a headless chicken
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Save your bacon
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Sheepishly
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shooting mouth off
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Spills the beans
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Squeal like a stuck pig
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Start from scratch
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Talk turkey
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The apple of eye
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the big cheese
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The early bird gets the worm.
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tickled pink
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Time is money
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To go banana
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To kill 2 birds with 1 stone
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To smell a rat
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To upset the applecart
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tongue in cheek
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Two shakes of a lamb's tail
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Under the weather
Meaning: Not well
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You are what you eat.
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You can't judge a book by its cover.
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You eat like a bird.
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