Colorful Idioms Explained with Images

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Explore common idioms related to colors, food, numbers, and body parts through visual representations. Understand the meanings behind phrases like "in the red", "fishy", "on cloud nine", and more. Enhance your language comprehension with this informative collection.


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  2. Idioms from Colors 1 In the red Owing money Red tape complicated official proceduresand forms the okay to start something 2 3 The green light 4 The red carpet special honors for a special or important person the market not controlled by government something that is not true but that causes no harm jealous of someone else's good fortune to feel sad 5 The black market 6 White lie 7 Green with envy 8 To feel blue 9 In the black having money

  3. Idioms from Food 1 To cream someone to totally beat some one in a game 2 Fishy suspicious, not right or honest to go crazy 3 To go banana 4 In a pickle in trouble 5 A lemon something that doesn't work, usually an electrical appliance or mechanical item very upset 6 Nuts 7 A peach a very nice person ( 8 Peanuts a very small amount of money something that is very easy to do 9 A piece of cake

  4. Idioms from Numbers At first sight after a quick look 1 ) ) 2 Forty winks a short sleep 3 extremely happy In seventh heaven 4 Of two minds having trouble making a decision extremely happy 5 On cloud nine On second thought changing one's mind after thinking more about something to finally understand something easy and natural to someone the very best 6 7 To put two and two together Second nature 8 9 Second to none 10 dozen of the other either choice okay ) 11 sixth sense a special feeling for something

  5. Idioms from Parts of the Body A big mouth a person who talks too much and does not keep secret by memory 1 By heart 2 to be very expensive To cost an arm and a leg To have a sweet tooth Head over heels in love A long face 3 to like sweet foods very much very much in love. 4 5 dissatisfied expression 6 Nosey always wanting to know other people's business and what other people are doing Harass someone 7 A pain in the neck To pull someone's leg To see eye to eye 8 to kid or trick someone 9 to agree completely 10 To shake a leg to hurry up 11

  6. Idioms from People 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

  7. Idioms from Animals not able to see well because of very bad eyesight making almost no noise As blind as a bat 1 2 As quiet as a mouse A bookworm someone who reads a lot 3 A copycat a person who wants to do the same thing as other people afraid 4 Chicken 5 An early bird the first person to be somewhere, 6 to eat a lot To eat like a horse 7 Pigheaded not taking advise 8 To smell a rat to think there may be something wrong, to feel something is fishy to talk openly and directly 9 To talk turkey 10 to work very hard To work like a dog 11

  8. Idioms from Geography dirt cheap very inexpensive 1 2 Down to earth sensible and practical 3 To go downhill to go down in numbers or in quality 4 to make a big problem out of a small problem almost never To make a mountain out of a molehill 5 Once in a blue moon 6 out of the trouble or difficulty Out of woods Out of this world excellent 7 8 getting too old Over the hill small part of a larger problem 9 The top of the iceberg in trouble 10 Up the creek 11 to get almost all of the votes To win by a landslide

  9. 1 to enjoy something a lot To get a kick out of something To go fly a kite ] [ 2 o go away or stop annoying someone, usually said in anger someone who does not complain if he or she loses or who does not boast if he or she wins in the same situation 3 A good sport 4 In the same boat 5 to make something continue to happen a negative answer To keep the ball rolling 6 No dice 7 Off base inappropriate 8 On the ball very good at doing things, effective and efficient To put one's cards on the table 9 not to hide anything, to explain the situation fully and honestly immediately 10 Right off the bat 11 Sink or swim fail or succeed, no matter what

  10. 1 Back and forth from one place to another and back to the first place mostly 2 By and large A cock and bull story Fair and square 3 a long explanation 4 without cheating 5 Ins and outs all the details 6 a variety of small items Odds and ends 7 8 Right and left Safe and sound Song and dance in large numbers with no damage or injury 9 10 an untrue story very clean Spick and span 11 Wear and tear damage that happens as something gets old and used

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