The Complete English Idioms Course - Master English Idioms
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The Complete English Idioms Course – Master English Idioms
Idioms – English Speaking – US and UK Slang – English Language – TOEFL – TOEIC – Go Beyond English Vocabulary
What are idioms?
Idioms are phrases or expressions that typically have a figurative, non-literal meaning. You could understand each individual word but the overall meaning is not clear.
Some idioms are regional, meaning that it might be heard primarily in one country only.
Idioms are everywhere!
Idioms are used in everyday life and in the workplace.
Whether talking to your friends and neighbours, in meetings at work, talking to customers and colleagues, as well as management, idioms are going to come up. You will even see idioms in professional emails.
That sounds confusing!
Idioms are used every day by native speakers and can be a huge cause of confusion for learners. Everyone else knows what they mean and your confidence drops as you have trouble following the conversation.
It doesn’t have to be this way!
This course will help you to understand idioms and increase your confidence around native speakers.
Even if you’re a native speaker, there will be idioms here that are new to you, depending on where you live.
Whether English language learner or native speaker, this course will help you to improve your vocabulary.
Idioms are interesting
Idioms make language interesting by injecting extra vocabulary into the language.
As a language learner, can you see the same idiom in your native language vocabulary? Or is there a similar expression that has a similar meaning? Or maybe there is no equivalent idiom at all. It is interesting to think about how these similarities and differences happen.
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Colour Idioms Introduction -
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General Colours
(To Show One’s) True Colours
Sailing Under False Colours
Nail One’s Colours to the Mast
The Colour of Your Money
Colour Me Something
Colour Outside the Lines
Colour Inside the Lines
With Flying Colours
Glowing Colours
Horse of a Different Colour
Off-Colour
Drained of Colour
Give/Lend Colour to
Dream in Colour
Man/Woman/Person of Colour
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Black Idioms
as black as ...
as black as thunder
black dog
the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe
say that black is white
the pot calling the kettle black
black and blue
in the black
black Russian
black sheep (of the family)
black market
black coffee
black gold
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White Idioms
as white as ...
white-collar worker
wave/hoist/show/raise the white flag
show the white feather
to tell a white lie
a white Christmas
a white elephant
a white knight
a white(d) sepulchre
white horses
white noise
pearly whites
white around the gills
white wedding
white marriage
white-bread
white-van man
talk to God/Huey/Ralph on the big white telephone
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Grey Idioms
grey area
all cats are grey by night / in the dark
get grey hair from (someone/something)
give (someone) grey hair
Dorian Gray
grey amber
grey out / greyout
grey dollar / gray pound
grey power
(the men in) grey suits
little grey cells / grey matter
grey eminence
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Brown Idioms
as brown as a berry
brown bagger/bag
brown energy/power
brown off
brown thumb
brown bottle flu
brown out
do something up brown
in a brown study
brown bread
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
how now brown cow
brown nose
code brown
brown hole
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Red Idioms
as red as a beetroot/cherry/ruby
to get a red face / red in the face
to see red / the red mist
red flag/rag to a bull
to be in the red / red ink
caught red-handed
paint the town red
(not worth a) red cent
red-letter day
red tape
red alert
(raise a) red flag
red state / wave
redneck
red light district
red light
run a red light
red hot
red hot mama
red-blooded
red carpet (treatment)
a red herring
red meat (rhetoric)
red gravy
(take the) red pill
(take the) redeye
better dead than red
red sky at night / morning
red-headed stepchild
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Green Idioms
green fingers/thumbs
green as grass / gooseberry
be green around the gills
Chinese green / green indigo
get/give the green light
go green on someone
green room
green state
green with envy / green-eyed monster
rub of the green
I don't buy green bananas
wear the green willow
and the moon is made of (green) cheese
green labor / a little green
greenhorn / green hand
(one) is not as green as (one) is cabbage-looking
a hedge between keeps friendship green
eat (one's) greens
(as) sure as God made little green apples
flourish like a green bay tree
green shoots
greenback
greenwash
green paper
green apple quickstep
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Pink Idioms
pink elephants / spiders
be in the pink (of health)
tickled pink
get (one's) pink slip
have a pink fit
pink slime
pink money
pink wave
pink up
pink it and shrink it
pink tax
pink-collar
race for pinks
strike me pink
as gay as pink ink
park the pink Plymouth
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Blue Idioms
once in a blue moon
out of the blue
into the blue / into the wide blue yonder
feeling blue / have the blues
in a blue funk
blue devils
blue around the gills
blue in the face
turn the air blue / a blue streak
blue collar workers
blue-eyed boy/girl
(take the) blue pill
between the devil and the deep blue sea
blue blooded
black and blue
blue wave
go blue
blue hair (bluehair)
blue ribbon
bluestocking
blue screen of death
look through blue glasses
blue-sky research
blue-sky thinking
hoist the blue peter
blue chip
big blue (ibm)
blue gown
blue plate special
burn with a low blue flame
boys/men in blue / blue suits / blue coats / little boy blue
blues and twos
blue code of silence
blue flu
blue movie
blue falcon
like a blue-arsed fly
screwed, blued and tattooed
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Purple Idioms
born in/to the purple
purple patch
purple prose
purple state
purple kush
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Yellow Idioms
be yellow / have a yellow belly/streak
mellow yellow
yellow brick road
yellow cake / yellowcake
yellow journalism/press / yellow journalist
yellow grease
yellow light
yellow state
don't eat yellow snow
code yellow
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Gold Idioms
as good as gold
heart of gold
pot of gold
all that glitters is not gold
worth your weight in gold
like gold dust
go for gold
gold digger
gold standard
gold-plate
sit on a gold mine
strike gold
fool's gold
go gold
get a gold star
black gold
goldbricker
streets are paved with gold
speech is silver, silence is golden
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Silver Idioms
silver lining
(born with a) silver spoon
cross (one's) palm with silver
thirty pieces of silver
(hand something to someone) on a silver platter
silver foil
silver plate(s)
silver tongue
speech is silver, but silence is golden
the silver screen
Silver Alert
silver surfer
silver goose
sell the family silver
silver bullet
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Colour Idioms QuizA chance to test your knowledge of colour idioms.
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Body Parts Idioms Introduction
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Ear Idioms
wet behind the ears
bend someone's ear
walls have ears
a word in your ear
grinning from ear to ear
in one ear and out of the other
not much between the ears
make a pig's ear of something
music to you ears
dog-eared
out on your ear
to be all ears
to (not) believe your ears
to turn a deaf ear
lend an ear to / give an ear to
to play it by ear
easy on the ears
to box someone's ears
to give someone a thick ear
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Hair Idioms
splitting hairs
within a hair's breadth
win by a hair
hang by a hair
to get in/out of someone's hair
keep your hair on
pull/tear your hair out
put hairs on your chest
to let your hair down
not a hair out of place
in the cross hairs
hair-raising
the hair of the dog (that bit you)
bad hair day
blue hair
give (someone) grey hair
neither hide nor hair
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Nose Idioms
powder one's nose
to pay through the nose
keep your nose out (of my business)
rub someone's nose in it
cut off your nose to spite your face
thumb your nose a someone
as plain as the nose on your face
look down your nose
turn nose up at something
toffee-nosed
get up someone's nose
nose to the grindstone
not see past the end of your nose
get/put one's nose out of joint
have a nose for something
get/have one's nose in a book
nose candy
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Eye Idioms
eyes bigger than stomach
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
hard/easy on the eyes
pull the wool ever your eyes
not a dry eye in the house
an eye for an eye
eyes in the back of your head
do something with your eyes closed
here's mud in your eye
get some shut-eye
up to one's eyeballs
bird's-eye view
private eye
keep your eye on the ball
cry your eyes out
to open one's eyes
to believe one's eyes
in the eyes of someone
in the eyes of the law
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Foot Idioms
to have both feet on the ground
shoot yourself in the foot
put one's foot in one's mouth
get off on the wrong/right foot
one foot in the grave
have the shoe on the other foot
to foot the bill
to get cold feet
tied hand and foot
where the shoe pinches
to put one's feet up
to put one's foot down
to get itchy feet
a foot in the door
from head to toe
flatfoot
dead on one's feet
crow's feet
to drag one's feet
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Body Parts Idioms Quiz
A chance to test your knowledge of body parts idioms.
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One Last Chance to Make This Course Better for Your Permanent Learning Library
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Animal Idioms Introduction
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Cat Idioms
cat got your tongue?
raining cats and dogs
not enough room to swing a cat
the cat that got the cream/canary
when the cat's away, the mice will play
more than one way to skin a cat
set the cat among the pigeons
something the cat dragged/brought in
cat burglar
to have kittens
all cats are grey at night / in the dark
grinning like a Cheshire cat
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like herding cats
scaredy-cat
fat cat
copycat
catwalk
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Dog Idioms
raining cats and dogs
in the doghouse
tail wagging the dog
teach an old dog new tricks
his bark is worse than his bite
see a man about a dog
go to the dogs
puppy love
let sleeping dogs lie
hair of the dog (that bit you)
dog-eared
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
the dogs of war
dog-tired
the dog's bollocks
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Monkey Idioms
a monkey on your back
make a monkey out of someone
brass monkey weather
monkey business
organ grinder's monkey
pay peanuts, get monkeys
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Brass Monkey Weather - A Closer Look
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Bee Idioms
a bee in one's bonnet
the bee's knees
to make a beeline
busy as a bee
the birds and the bees
to buzz with excitement
hive of activity
what's the buzz
honey trap
bee-stung lips
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Kangaroo Idioms
a kangaroo court
a kangaroo (loose) in the top paddock
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Animal Idioms Quiz
A chance to test your knowledge of animal idioms.
