English Idioms

Thursday, June 8, 2023

English Idioms with D Words

Drag your feet

If someone is dragging their feet, they are taking too long to do or finish something, usually because they don't want to do it.

Draw a blank

If you try to find something out and draw a blank, you don't get any useful information.

Draw the line

When you draw the line, you set out limits of what you find acceptable, beyond which you will not go.

Dressed to the nines

If you are in your very best clothes, you're dressed to the nines.

Drink like a fish

If someone drinks like a fish, they drink far too much alcohol.

Drive a wedge

If you drive a wedge between people, you exploit a small issue so that people start to disagree.

Drop in the Ocean

A drop in the ocean implies that something will have little effect because it is small and mostly insignificant.

Dry as a bone

If your lawn is as dry as a bone, the soil is completely dry.

Duck to water

If you take to something like a duck to water, you find when you start that you have a natural affinity for it.

Dwell on the past

If you thinking too much about the past, so that it becomes a problem, is to dwell on the past.

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Monday, May 29, 2023

Idioms like Down and Out

Done to death

If a joke or story has been done to death, it has been told so often that it has stopped being funny.

Doormat

A person who doesn't stand up for themselves and gets treated badly is a doormat.

Double whammy

A double whammy is when something causes two problems at the same time, or when two setbacks occur at the same time.

Double-edged sword

If someone uses an argument that could both help them and harm them, then they are using a two-edged sword; it cuts both ways.

Down and out

If someone is down and out, they are desperately poor and need help.

Down for the count

If someone is down for the count, they have lost a struggle, like a boxer who has been knocked out.

Down in the dumps

If someone's down in the dumps, they are depressed.

Down to the wire

If something goes down to the wire, like a competition, then it goes to the very last moment before it is clear who has won.

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Friday, November 4, 2022

English Idioms starting with Don't

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Don't judge a book by the cover

This idiom means that you should not judge something or someone by appearances, but should look deeper at what is inside and more important.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

This means that if you are given something, a present or a chance, you should not waste it by being too critical or examining it too closely.

Don't upset the applecart

If you are advised not to upset the applecart, you are being told not to disturb the way things are done because it might ruin things.

Don't hold your breath

If you are told not to hold your breath, it means that you shouldn't have high expectations about something.

Don't wash your dirty laundry in public

People, especially couples, who argue in front of others or involve others in their personal problems and crises, are said to be washing their dirty laundry in public; making public things that are best left private.