* idioms *

[Portia]

Bed of roses

Meaning: an easy and pleasant life
Or
comfortable or luxurious position

e.g she lies in a bed of roses because her father is rich

e.g he soon discovered that living in foreign country is not always
.a bed of roses

[flying without wings]

Dead Ringer
identical 100%. A duplicate

Dropping Like Flies
A large number of people either falling ill or dying

Get Over It
To move beyond something that is bothering you.

[Portia]

one foot in the grave

Close to death; a person who is or appears to be nearly dead.

example

they say he has one foot in the grave, so we probably should start planning his funeral.
etymology

Your 'grave' is where you are buried when you die, and if you have'one foot' already in the grave, then you must be very close to the end of your life.




i think we have sthng similar to this in Arabic....right

[flying without wings]

do or die
now or never, win or lose, do or die, all or nothing, are all used for situations where
you can either succeed and get everything or fail miserably, getting nothing. And it is all gonna happen RIGHT NOW. No ifs ands or buts

push over the edge
if an unpleasant event pushes someone over the edge, it makes them start to behave in a crazy way ......She had been driven over the edge by the separation from her husband

[flying without wings]

bullseye
It comes from the Latin �bulla� which means root or small round object.
The bull�s eye is the eye of the target. It means literally the bull�s eye, sweet and also round.

�Very sweet to get a �bullseye
The bullseye is the center of a target

'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me'
This means that you should learn from your mistakes and not allow people to take advantage of you repeatedly

[flying without wings]

Oopsy-daisy
an exclamation made after a stumble or other mistake. It is usually said by the perpetrator of the error and the saying out loud is a public acknowledgement
example
oopsy daisy I hurt you again

Ups-a-daisy
An exclamation made when encouraging a child to get up after a fall or when lifting a child into the air

[expatriate]

Really great Idioms ,,,,, Thx alot ,,, Tears + Flying ,,,

Best regards ,,,

[flying without wings]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة expatriate

Really great Idioms ,,,,, Thx alot ,,, Tears + Flying ,,,

Best regards ,,,

my pleasure man

[expatriate]

Mum's the word:
To keep quiet. To say nothing.



No Room to Swing a Cat:
An unusually small or confined space

[Portia]

the second one


soooo cute
loooooooool