English Idioms

Imagine you are choosing to ride a train. You have two choices: the fastest and most direct route to your destination, or the scenic route ...

Literally, outdoors  is beyond the doors of your residential home. Figuratively speaking, the outdoors  is the wilderness . Being outdoors...

The expression "a babe in the woods" is used to represent someone who is innocent and vulnerable and in great danger of being vict...

Your neck of the woods is your figurative location; your locale; your area.  Example: "What are you doing in this neck of the woods?...

This means, on a large scale. Example: "The politician's ambitions for higher office were as big as all outdoors."

When a dog being used to hunt raccoons, a dog will bark up at a tree ("up a tree") to indicate that a raccoon is within the tree...

A voice in the wilderness  is someone who expresses an unpopular opinion. Example: "For years, she was a voice in the wilderness ab...

American politics uses "the wilderness" as a Biblical reference. Someone who is in the wilderness  is an outcast, a nomad, someon...