What's your favourite Idiom?

[Veron1]

What's your favourite Idiom?
let's share some idiom with examples to learn more
Why do you like it?

[Veron1]

My favourite idiom is:

(to) buckle down

- to start working seriously

EXAMPLE



1: If Don buckles down now, he might be able to graduate from

high school this year.

EXAMPLE

2: Team, if we want to win this tournament, we're going to need

to buckle down!

I consider it as an Idiom.
I'm always saying that to myself especially when I'll sit for an exam

[Mad-ox]

My favourite idioms are these: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/en...al-idioms.html

Madox

[Veron1]

Originally Posted by Mad-ox

My favourite idioms are these: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/en...al-idioms.html

Madox

I'm so sorry
Shall I close my thread

[Mad-ox]

Originally Posted by Veron1

I'm so sorry
Shall I close my thread

God forbid! It's a nice thread. It is well known that idioms are very difficult to be learnt. So, the more we discuss and practise these idioms ( Repetition is the mother of skill. ), the easier will be for all of us to acquire these idioms. My answer in the previous post wanted to suggest you that my favourite idioms are those formed with animal names such as:

be like a dog with two tails= be extremly happy

Madox

[Veron1]

Originally Posted by Mad-ox

God forbid! It's a nice thread. It is well known that idioms are very difficult to be learnt. So, the more we discuss and practise these idioms ( Repetition is the mother of skill. ), the easier will be for all of us to acquire these idioms. My answer in the previous post wanted to suggest you that my favourite idioms are those formed with animal names such as:

be like a dog with two tails= be extremly happy

Madox

Thanks Madox

[Mad-ox]

hi,,

I have come across the idiom "to grease someone's palm". I like it very much. It means to bribe.



Madox

[Veron1]

Originally Posted by Mad-ox

hi,,

I have come across the idiom "to grease someone's palm". I like it very much. It means to bribe.



Madox

It's great I like it
But I won't use it for myself

I.A

[Mad-ox]

Originally Posted by Veron1

But I won't use it for myself

hi,
Unfortunately, it is used very ofen in my country. I mean not the idiom but the practice. (bribery)

Madox

[Veron1]

Isn't it offensive in a way


(to) work like a dog

- to work very hard

EXAMPLE

1: Larry became an investment banker after college, and now

he works like a dog.
EXAMPLE

2: Al worked like a dog on his term paper and got an "A+" on it.

SYNONYMS: to work one's tail off; to work like a horse; to work one's

fingers to the bone

I prefer synonyms

I.A