English Idioms

In politics, and sometimes business, someone in a powerful position who everyone knows will be leaving office at a particular time, but who ...

A  common line in dramas, this cannot be taken literally because everything  is a situation. The implication is that we have a bad  situatio...

Americans will use "Chinese" as an abbreviation for "Chinese food," which is food considered to be particular to Chinese...

If "Where's the beef?" is asking for substance  relating to an issue, "What's your beef?" is asking what  substa...

While the meaning of "something simple" is, well, simple, "not quite so simple" means, in reality, something requiring a...

Usually, putting " big " in front of a noun is to turn that noun into something larger and less literal. In this case, a big freez...

To "be in" is, figuratively speaking, to be present inside  a building.  This usually applies to a place of occupation or employme...