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.
Idiom of the day :- Eat humble pie
Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-
Be very submissive after regretting an action or words A : Last week Charles accused his new secretary, Fiona, of stealing his wallet. It disappeared from his briefcase during lunchtime. B : How awful ! I expect she lost her job immediately. A : No, Charles gave her a pay rise. The next day he found his wallet at home. It hadn’t been stolen after all, so he had to eat humble pie all week and offer Fiona more money before she agreed to stay ! In the Middle Ages umbles were the unpleasant but edible parts of a deer which were cooked in a pie. The best deer meat was eaten by the rich, whereas the umble pie was eaten by their servants who were of a lower social class. Over time the word umble became confused with the word humble which means meek or submissive to give the current expression. It is often used in the following forms, have to eat humble pie and make someone eat humble pie.
