148 Idiom Examples To Enrich Your Language

Shed light on.

Meaning: to reveal information about something or to clarify something.

Bell the cat.

Meaning: to undertake a risky or dangerous task.

Get your act together.

Meaning: get organized and do things effectively.

Pull someone’s leg.

Meaning: to play a practical joke.

As right as rain.

Meaning: perfect, amazing.

Take a rain check.

Meaning: to postpone a plan.

Go cold turkey.

Meaning: suddenly quit addictive or dangerous behavior such as smoking or drinking alcohol.

One-trick pony.

Meaning: a person with only one talent or area of expertise.

To get a taste of your own medicine.

Meaning: to be treated the way you’ve treated others.

To go down in flames.

Meaning: to fail miserably at something.

Bite off more than one can chew.

Meaning: trying to do something which is too difficult for them.

Don't run before you can walk.

Meaning: a warning not to try something difficult before you understand the basics

Ignorance is bliss.

Meaning: sometimes it’s better not to know all the facts about something.

Leave no stone unturned.

Meaning: to do everything you can to achieve something.

Up in arms.

Meaning: being angry about something.

See eye to eye.

Meaning: to agree completely.

Face the music.

Meaning: deal with the reality of the situation and accept all the consequences, whether good or bad.

Read the riot act.

Meaning: to reprimand someone for behaving badly, with the intention of improving that person’s behavior.

Cost a bomb.

Meaning: something very expensive.

Heard it on the grapevine.

Meaning: to hear news about something from someone else, not directly.