50 idioms with their meanings
Here are 50 idioms and their meanings:
1. Cheapskate: Someone who despises spending money
2. Joined at the hip: Very close to someone
3. Elbow grease: Strenuous physical exertion
4. Oddball: A freak or unusual person
5. Down-To-Earth: Reasonable and realistic
6. Go-Getter: Someone who is active, enthusiastic, and takes the initiative to achieve their goals
7. Break a leg: Good luck
8. Cutting corners: Poorly doing a task to save time or money
9. Hang in there: Don’t give up
10. Pull yourself together: Please relax
11. Red tape: Official or bureaucratic duties
12. To be yellow: to be timid
13. To see red: To be enraged
14. Blackout: Faint
15. Black and blue: Define anything that has been severely bruised
16. Golden opportunity: deal opportunity
17. Have the blues: Be gloomy or melancholy
18. Black sheep: A person who brings shame to a family or organization
19. So far so good: Things are going nicely
20. A busybody: Someone who is always interested in other people's personal life
21. Oddball: A freak or unusual person
22. Down-To-Earth: Reasonable and realistic
23. Forty winks: A short nap
24. Barrel of laugh: an extremely funny person
25. Old as the hills: Some elderly people
26. Black sheep: to be the odd one out, to be different from the rest
27. Blue once a month: Indicates that it is quite unusual to observe
28. Take the red eye: This refers to a late-night trip that arrives early in the morning
29. Caught red-handed: To catch someone doing something while they are unaware
30. Green thumb: Implies being knowledgeable about gardening
31. Gray area: Is anything uncertain or undefined?
32. Green with envy: Indicates being jealous.
33. With flying colors: With great or complete success
34. Out of the blue: Meaning unexpectedly, without warning, and instantly
35. White lie: A tiny untruth told respectfully or to prevent hurting someone's feelings
36. Pink tickling: indicates that you are quite satisfied with the circumstance
37. Clean bill of health: This is a report that shows a person is healthy
38. Fit as a fiddle: In excellent health
39. In the pink of health: In excellent health
40. Under the weather: Indicates gradually ill or depressed
41. Look or feel like death warmed up: To seem or feel extremely unwell and exhausted
42. Frog in one’s throat: Speaking difficulty caused by a cough or sore throat
43. Go under the knife: To have surgery; this might also refer to aesthetic surgery
44. On one’s last legs: To be extremely exhausted, unwell, or on the verge of death
45. As right as rain: To be in good health
46. Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Family bonds trump all others
47. Brain Drain: The departure of smart, well-educated people from a location
48. No-Brainer: Something that does not necessitate thought
49. On the Blink: Not functioning, or only occasionally operating
50. Bend over Backwards: You go out of your way to accomplish something, especially if you want to be fair or helpful