Showing posts with label figurative expression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figurative expression. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

Figurative Expressions 2

notes of: http://jauhari-englishhomework.blogspot.com/
Get into hot water   [get into trouble]
Green horn            [a person who is new at something]
Have green eyes    [feel jealous]
Hold one’s tongue  [keep quiet]

Keep in mind    [remember]
Kill two birds with one stone [do two jobs at the same time]
Lend a hand   [help]
Once in a blue moon   [very seldom]
Put one’s best foot forward [do one’s best]

Rain cats and dogs  [rain heavily]
Red letter day           [important day]
Snake in the grass   [a person who cannot be trusted]
Spread like wildfire   [spread very fast]

Tell a white lie     [to tell a lie for a good cause]
Take up arms    [go to war]
Turn over a new leaf     [change one’s behavior]
Within a stone’s throw  [ very near]

Figurative Expressions 1

A white elephant  [a useless object which is expensive to keep]
An eye sore           [an unpleasant sight]
An eye for an eye   [take revenge]
Apple of one’s eye  [a favoured person]
At the eleventh hour [at the last moment]
A black sheep     [a good for nothing person]

Bad egg            [worthless person]
Beat about/ around the bush  [talk in a roundabout way]
Bread and butter  [means of livelihood]
Bury the hatchet  [forget past quarrels]

Carry weight    [important]
Cats and dogs [always quarreling]
Caught red-handed [caught while committing a crime
Child play       [easy to do]
Cock and bull story  [silly story]
Come to the point [speak directly]

Dead broke        [without a cent]
Dog in a manger [selfish person]
Eye to eye        [agree]
Eat like a horse [eat heartily]

Face the music   [prepared for punishment]
Foot the bill        [pay the bill]
From hand to mouth [without any provision for the future]