G'day my maties,
Our table group was talking about idioms last time.
So, I thought I might post a few idioms (actually, quite a few) on the forum.
I don't really have time to post the meaning and example of each idiom. But I will start filling them up bit by bit (some are pretty straight forward though). Please do reply and request if you want to know any of them in advance. And I will try to post them up ASAP.
If there are any spelling mistakes, please do inform me.
Cheers.
List of Idioms
A
Absent Without Leave [AWOL]
A Doubting Thomas
A House Divided
Against Itself Cannot Stand
A Leopard Can't Change His Spots
All Your Base Are Belong To Us [Jenglish turned official idiom]
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
Apple of My Eye
B
Back Seat Driver
Back To Basics
Back To Square One
Baker's Dozen
Bad Hair Day
Ball and Chain
Balls to the Wall
Beeswax
Big Apple
Blackmail
Blind leading the blind
Blue Moon
Blue Sky
Break A Leg
Brass Monkey
Brownie Points
Buckaroo
Bullpen
C
Catch-22
Caught With Your Pants Down
Charley Horse
Chip on one's Shoulder
Chow Down
Clear Blue Water
Close but no Cigar
Cold War
Cock and bull story
Copasetic
Crackerjack
Cut to the Chase
Cute as a Bug's Ear
Cup Of Joe
Cyber
D
Deadline
Dead Ringer
Devil's Advocate
Diamond in the Rough
Dirt Poor
Dog Days
Don't look a Gift
Horse in the Mouth
Doozy
Dope
Double Whammy
Doughboy
Drag Race
Driving me up the wall
Dropping like flies
Drink like a fish
Dry Run
E
Eighty Six
Eat Drink and Be Merry
Elvis has left the building
End of story
Ethnic Cleansing
Eureka
Excuse my French
F
Face the Music
Feeding Frenzy
Field Day
Finger lickin' good
Flea Market
Flesh and Blood
Flip The Bird
Fly on the wall
Foam at the Mouth
Fools Gold
French Kiss
Full Monty
Funny Farm
G
Get out of the wrong side of bed
Gilding the Maria
Good Samaritan
Go out on a limb
Go The Extra Mile
Got my mojo working
Graveyard Shift
Green Room
Gung Ho
H
Hat Trick
Handwriting on the wall
Have an axe to grind
Heavy Metal
Hell in a Handbasket
High Five
High on the hog
Hit the Hay
Hold your horses
Honeymoon
Hocus Pocus
Houston we have a problem
I
I'll Have His Head On
A Platter
In Like Flynn
In the bag
In the buff
In your face
It came like a bolt
from the blue
Ivy League
I Wash My Hands Of It
J
Jaywalk
Jinx
Joshing Me
K
Keep body and soul together
Keep your chin up
Kilroy was here
Kick The Bucket
Kitty-corner
Knee jerk reaction
Knock on wood
Know the ropes
Know which way the wind blows
Ku-Klux Klan
L
Live By The Sword, Die By The Sword
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Level playing field
Last but not least
Loose Cannon
Lose your rag
Lollygag
Lynch
M
Mad As A Hatter
Make no bones about
Mayday
Mayhem
Mexican Wave
Money is the Root of All Evil
Muck and Brass
Murphy's Law
Mumbo Jumbo
Mum's the word
My Brother's Keeper
N
Nerd
Nest Egg
New kid on the block
New York Minute
No Dice
No Room to Swing a Cat
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Not Playing With a Full Deck
O
Off The Cuff
Off the Record
On the Fritz
On a wing and a prayer
On Cloud 9
One for the road
One over the eight
On the dole
Over the Top
P
P's and Q's
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Pedal to the metal
Peeping Tom
Pick up your ears
Pie in the Sky
Pin Money
Pipe Down
Play by ear
Posh
Pull the plug
Pull the Wool Over His Eyes
Pull out all the stops
Push the Envelope
Put a sock in it
Put on your thinking cap
Put your best foot forward
Q
Quality Time
Queer Street
Queer the pitch
R
Raining Cats and Dogs
Raincheck
Raise Cain
Redhanded
Red Herring
Redneck
Ring Fencing
Rise and Shine
Run out of steam
Rule of thumb
S
Sacred Cow
Saved by the bell
Scapegoat
Shake a leg
Shot in the dark
Sitting in a Catbird Seat
Skid Row
Skin of your teeth
Sleep Tight
Sour Grapes
Southpaw
Spare The Rod, Spoil the Child
Spitting Image
Straight From The Horse's Mouth
Strike a deal
Stumped
T
Thats all Folks!
Third World
Third times a charm
Tie the knot
To Everything There Is A Reason
Tongue In Cheek
There's more than one way to skin a cat
The Truth Will Set You Free
The Wave
Three strikes and you are out
Til the cows come home
Top Notch
Turn A Blind Eye
Twenty three skidoo
U
Uncle Sam
Under the Weather
Up a blind alley
Up the Apples and Pears
V
Vampire
Van Gogh's ear for music
W
Wag the Dog
Wearing the pants
Well Heeled
Where there's muck there's brass
White Bread
Whole nine yards
Windy City
Wild and Woolly
Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Word for Word
Word in your shell-like
X
X marks the spot
Y
You are what you eat
You Can't Take it With You
Your name is mud
Yankee
Z
Zero Tolerance
Zigger Zigger
