English Idioms

To go solar  is to convert a house so that it will collect solar energy through the use of solar energy panels (or some kind of equivalent)...

When many living creatures, including plants, are dying in large numbers , English natives often say, they are "dropping like flies....

High school science classes teach us all about icebergs, or ice in general, and how the ice visible on the surface is only a small portion o...

Figuratively, a stick-in-the-mud (usually written with hyphens and pronounced as if it is one long word) is a person whose behavior resemble...

To "rain on someone's parade" is to criticize someone when they are doing something that makes them happy, as if ruining a fun...

To "make waves" is the opposite of "going with the flow." To make waves is to stand out, to demonstrate your individuali...

Figuratively speaking, "the flow" is the course of events; it is the direction society is taking, and the momentum behind the move...

Someone who is "down to earth" is someone in touch with the lives and realities of ordinary people. No matter how high a person...

Someone said to be "under the weather" is someone who appears to be at less than full health, like a sky that is cloudy instead o...

To weather a storm is to endure a difficult, but temporary situation. Because the difficult situation is temporary, it resembles a passing ...

To have your head in the clouds means that your thoughts are not on the task at hand. Your thoughts are elsewhere, as if they are floating...

Something or someone that is lightning-quick is, figuratively, as quick (as fast and agile) as lightning. Ex.: "That hockey team's ...

For the idiom just posted below, some English natives might write, "Melissa is literally a ray of sunshine for everyone at the office....

Figuratively, sunshine is strongly related to happiness. Therefore, a ray of sunshine is someone or something that brings happiness to oth...

Full version: "Under a cloud of suspicion." Someone under a cloud is someone who is suspected of wrongdoing without clear evidence...

To "steal someone's thunder" is an expression for taking the credit and praise for something someone else did. That is, some...

As detailed in " hitting the hay, " sacks filled with hay were once used as mattresses in the United States. Thus, the expression ...

Hitting the hay is an expression for going to sleep. Even when a far greater percentage of English-speaking society lived on a farm, humans ...

Figuratively speaking, "digging" is searching, even if it has nothing to do with physical soil. " Digging deep " means t...