| ENG | |
|---|---|
| A pretty penny | |
| About face | |
| Ace up your sleeve | |
| Achilles` heel | |
| Act high and mighty | |
| Act on someone`s advice | |
| Adam`s apple | |
| Alike as two peas | |
| All ears | |
| All heart | |
| All in a day`s work | |
| All set | |
| All skin and bone | |
| All that glitters is not gold | |
| All the tea in China ( not for all the tea in China ) | |
| All your eggs in one basket ( to put all your eggs in one basket) | |
| All`s well that ends well | |
| An apple of discord | |
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away | |
| An old flame | |
| Ants in your pants | |
| Any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
| Apple of your eye | |
| Arm and a leg | |
| Armed to the teeth | |
| Around the clock | |
| As a rule | |
| As cold as ice ( również as cold as stone ) | |
| As cool as a cucumber | |
| As good as new | |
| As mad as a wrongly shot hog | |
| As much use as a handbrake on a canoe | |
| As neat as a new pin | |
| As one man | |
| At a loss | |
| At a snail`s pace | |
| At arm`s length | |
| At cross purposes | |
| At death`s door | |
| At each other`s throats | |
| At large | |
| At loggerheads | |
| At loose ends | |
| At odds | |
| At once | |
| At sea | |
| At the drop of a hat | |
| At the end of the day | |
| At the fore | |
| At the top of your voice | |
| At your wits` end | |
| Aunt Sally | |
| Awe inspiring | |
| AWOL | |
| Axe to grind (have an axe to grind) | |
| Babe in arms | |
| Babe in the woods | |
| Backseat driver | |
| Bad blood | |
| Bad egg | |
| Bag of nerves | |
| Bar fly | |
| Be all fingers and thumbs | |
| Bean counter | |
| Bear fruit | |
| Beat around the bush | |
| Bedroom eyes | |
| Bee in your bonnet | |
| Beeline for | |
| Bee`s Knees | |
| Before you can say Jack Robinson | |
| Behind bars | |
| Behind the times | |
| Behind closed doors | |
| Behind someone`s back | |
| Below the belt | |
| Benjamin of the family | |
| Beside yourself | |
| Beside the point | |
| Better late than never | |
| Better safe than sorry | |
| Between the devil and the deep blue sea | |
| Between the lines | |
| Big Apple | |
| Big cheese | |
| Big Easy | |
| Big fish | |
| Bird-brain | |
| Birds and the bees | |
| Birthday suit | |
| Black sheep | |
| Blue blood | |
| Bolt from the blue | |
| Bone of contention | |
| Butterflies in your stomach | |
| By all means | |
| By a whisker | |
| By heart | |
| By the book | |
| By the skin of your teeth | |
| By the cringe | |
| Call a spade a spade | |
| Castles in the air | |
| Cat`s whiskers | |
| Catch someone red-handed | |
| Chalk and cheese | |
| Chip off the old block | |
| Clean hands | |
| Come to grips | |
| Come what may | |
| Cost a bomb | |
| Couch potato | |
| Crocodile tears | |
| Curiosity killed the cat | |
| Cut loose | |
| Cutting edge | |
| Dead air | |
| Dead and burried | |
| Dice with death | |
| Die in the last ditch | |
| Dog in the manager | |
| Daily dozen | |
| Dead easy | |
| Donkey`s years | |
| Drive someone mad | |
| Drop in the market | |
| Dead duck | |
| Dutch courage | |
| Each and every | |
| Easier said than done | |
| easy come easy go | |
| Eeasy on the eye | |
| Enough is enough | |
| Feel washed out | |
| For a laugh | |
| For fun | |
| For good | |
| For the time being | |
| From scratch | |
| From the bottom of one`s heart | |
| Get on sb`s nerves | |
| Get rid of something | |
| Give-and-take | |
| Go halves | |
| Go to extremes | |
| Go to waste | |
| Go up in smoke | |
| Grind to a halt | |
| Hand in hand | |
| Have a hunch | |
| Have clean hands | |
| Have sth at one`s fingertips | |
| Hit the headlines | |
| Hit the jackpot | |
| Hush money | |
| In a nutshell | |
| In bulk | |
| Joking apart | |
| Just in case | |
| Keep a straight face | |
| Leave someone in the lurch | |
| Little by little | |
| Made of money | |
| Make a noise | |
| More or less | |
| Mum is the word | |
| No matter | |
| Off the cuff | |
| On occasion | |
| On the dole | |
| Out of order | |
| Over my dead body | |
| Put in jeopardy | |
| Rat race | |
| Red tape | |
| Rule of thumb | |
| Run riot | |
| Safe and sound | |
| Save the situation | |
| Sick and tired | |
| Sing a different song | |
| Small talk | |
| Snake in the grass | |
| Spitting image of sb | |
| Take for granted | |
| Take it easy | |
| Talk turkey | |
| Teach someone a lesson | |
| Teething troubles | |
| Think aloud | |
| Time is money | |
| To and fro | |
| To be in somebody`s shoes | |
| To throw a party | |
| Ugly duckling | |
| Ups and downs | |
| White lie | |
| With open arms | |
| Work wonders | |
| Young at heart | |
| Zero hour |
Category: General English - Speaking
Tags: english idioms, most popular english idioms