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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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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