English Idioms

A hole in the head is the expected result of a gunshot to the human head. As most people have better things to do than to be shot and murder...

To simply something is to make something simpler. To dumb something down (the process known as "dumbing down," the past tense bein...

In times past, a blue rose  was an expression signifying the impossible, the unattainable, something that exists in fantasy alone, not in n...

A slash is a swift, violent cut. As a result of being swift and violent, the wound created by a slash is longer and deeper than a shallow su...

To cut a budget  means to eliminate  (cut) spending from a budget.  The items being eliminated are "cut out" of the budget. Exam...

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...