Author: Daily Devotional

Idiom of the day :- Say cheese

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

If you look into a mirror and say the word ‘cheese’, you will notice that you appear to be smiling. For that reason, photographers often ask you to say cheese when they are about to take your picture. ‘If you don’t mind, would you look into the lens of my camera and say cheese?’ Timothy asked. ‘And though you may look at my cheese and admire it, you may not have it. Just gaze at it, say cheese, and then I will return to eating it.’

Idiom of the day :- Look a picture

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

While to look a picture indicates that something or someone looks very pretty or attractive, it is often used humorously or sarcastically. ‘Don’t you look a picture !’ Billy’s mother cried. ‘You’ve got chocolate ice cream all over your face !’ ( Humorously/sarcastically.) ‘Isn’t she lovely ‘ Mariah looks a picture today.’ ( Attractive/pretty. )

Idiom of the day :- A Dime A Dozen

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

Anything that is common and easy to get.

Idiom of the day :- Smell A Rat

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

To detect somone in the group is betraying the others.

Idiom of the day :- Don’t hold your breath

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

Don’t wait for it to happen because it probably won’t. ex. “You think David will break up with Tina? Don’t hold your breath!”

Idiom of the day :- Have a frog in one’s throat

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

To have a frog in one’s throat shouldn’t cause alarm for it happens to all of us at one time or another. It happens when our ability to speak clearly is interrupted ( usually temporarily ) by mucus in our throats. ‘Excuse me,’ the hippo gulped. ‘I seem to have a frog in my throat today.’

Idiom of the day :- Eighty Six

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

A certain item is no longer available. Or this idiom can also mean, to throw away.

Idiom of the day :- rack one’s brain / (To) rack one’s brain

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

To try very hard to think of something. ex. “I racked my brain, but I couldn’t remember his name.” 

Idiom of the day :- Once in a blue moon

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.

Idiom of the day :- Larger than life

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

When a person, an object or an event is larger than life, he, she or it is unusually remarkable or significant … often because reports of him, her or it have been greatly exaggerated. ‘I suspect the things Owen says about his achievements are larger than life.’ ‘I used to think the stories about there being ghosts here were larger than life !’ the cat cried.