anybody can tell me some idioms???(don't forget the meanings)?

Answer 1

"That just takes the cake." = That is hard to believe but true.

"I'll be a monkey's uncle." = That is hard to believe.

"You dragged that out of him." = You succesfully compelled him to answer.

"Cat got your tongue?" = Why are you so quiet?

"I've got the blues" = I am sad.

"He landed on his feet." = He had a hard time, but he got through it unscathed.

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Answer 2

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
A Leopard Can't Change His Spots
Apple of My Eye
Back Seat Driver
Back To Basics
Back To Square One
Ball and Chain
Blind leading the blind
Break A Leg
Catch-22
Caught With Your Pants Down
Charley Horse
Chip on his Shoulder
Close but no Cigar
Copasetic
Crackerjack
Cut to the Chase
Cute as a Bug's Ear
Dead Ringer
Devil's Advocate
Diamond in the Rough
Don't look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Double Whammy
Drink like a fish
Dropping like flies
Dry Run
Eat Drink and Be Merry
Elvis has left the building
Face the Music
Field Day
Fly on the wall
Foam at the Mouth
Fools Gold
Funny Farm
Get out of the wrong side of bed
Getting Down To Brass Tacks
Go out on a limb
Go The Extra Mile
Graveyard Shift
Green Room
Gung Ho
Handwriting on the wall
Have an axe to grind
Heavy Metal
Hell in a Handbasket
High Five
High on the hog
Hit the Hay
Hit The Nail on the Head
Hocus Pocus
Hold your horses
Houston we have a problem
I Wash My Hands Of It
I'll Have His Head On A Platter
In Like Flynn
In the bag
It's out of the blue
Joshing Me
Keep your chin up
Kick The Bucket
Knock on wood
Knock Someone Down A Peg
Know the ropes
Know which way the wind blows
Last but not least
Level playing field
Like a chicken with its head cut off
Loose Cannon
Mad As A Hatter
Make no bones about it
Money is the Root of All Evil
Mum's the word
Mumbo Jumbo
Murphy's Law
My Brother's Keeper
Nest Egg
New York Minute
Not Playing With a Full Deck
Off the Record
On a wing and a prayer
On the Fritz
One for the road
Over the Top
P's and Q's
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Pass The Buck
Pedal to the metal
Pie in the Sky
Pig in a Poke
Piggyback
Pipe Down
Play by ear
Pull out all the stops
Pull the plug
Pull the Wool Over His Eyes
Push the Envelope
Put a sock in it
Put on your thinking cap
Put your best foot forward
Rain Cats and Dogs
Raise Cain
Red Herring
Redhanded
Rule of thumb
Run out of steam
Saved by the bell
Scapegoat
Shake a leg
Shot in the dark
Sitting Shotgun
Skid Row
Skin of your teeth
Sleep Tight
Son of a gun
Sour Grapes
Spare The Rod, Spoil the Child
Spitting Image
Straight From The Horse's Mouth
The Whole Nine Yards
There's more than one way to skin a cat
Third times a charm
Three Sheets to the Wind
Three strikes and you are out
Tie the knot
Til the cows come home
To Everything There Is A Season
To Make A Long Story Short
Tongue In Cheek
Turn A Blind Eye
Under the Weather
Up a blind alley
Wag the Dog
Wearing the pants
Wet Behind The Ears
Who Let The Cat Out Of The Bag
Whole nine yards
Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
X marks the spot
You are what you eat
You Can't Take it With You
Your name is mud
Zero Tolerance

Answer 3

Idioms idioms.. hm...

Idioms are statements that don't make sense just by sentence construct and word meaning, but have a meaning that the general public understands... sort of like slang.

Like:

Burning Rubber (you aren't actually burning the rubber, but heating it to smoke by creating excess friction)

or

Sitting Pretty: Something is going well for you, but you may not be sitting, and you may not be pretty either.

Having a cow: You probably aren't giving birth, and a cow is probably not involved, but your actions could fool someone.

Answer 4

You know, you could just search for that on google. Just try typing in idioms and meanings... Or something similar.

Answer 5

1) Pay the piper - face the consequnces for something you've done
" I stayed up too late tonight. Tomorrow, I'll have to pay the piper."

2) pulling your leg - to tease someone or try to make him believe something that is untrue
" Do not believe everything he tells you. He was just pulling your leg."

3) Get out of hand - become out of control
"The audience at the concert are getting out of hand thats why the police came."

Answer 6

Um one sapnish one is "me estoy cebrando la cabeza" it means im breaking my head...that means your thinking to hard.
or the cat in a bag means keep a secret

by the skin of one's teeth: barely succeed in doing something.

"I'll have to start earlier the next time. This time I only finished by the skin of my teeth."

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Answer 7

a penny saved is a penny earned
this means that u should not spend or waste money but should save it
for more details visit
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

Answer 8

Eat humble Pie- to apologize

Answer 9

kicking the bucket-you're not actually kicking a bucket, are you? you're dying.

hold your horses-you're not actually holding horses, you're telling someone to wait a second

throw in the towel- you're not actually throwing a towel, you're giving up, right?


see is you can think of more like that

Answer 10

This might be a cheat, but have a look here