Why in English 'hares' are 'birds', and 'flowers' are 'potatoes': amazing idioms
When studying English, we very often come across idioms and cannot understand what they mean, especially if translated verbatim. Edition "Voice of America" decided to simplify life and help deal with idioms, and ForumDaily chose the most interesting ones especially for its readers.
Sometimes it is not clear why we “share our hair”, “try our own medicines” and “take something to the bank”. The following idioms can make it much easier for you to communicate with native speakers:
- small potatoes - These are just flowers/trifles
- Kill two birds with one stone - kill two birds with one stone
- In a Nutshell - in a nutshell/in a nutshell
- Fight tooth and nail - fight for life and death
- Every cloud has a silver lining - every cloud has a silver lining
- Wait for the other shoe to drop - sit on pins and needles/wait for something unpleasant
- Willy nilly - from the bay of floundering / thoughtlessly
- To split hair - nitpick about little things
- Over the Moon - on the seventh heaven
- Open a can of worms - face a lot of troubles
- To see the writing on the wall - omen
- A taste of your own medicine - repay in the same coin
- cut from the same cloth - two of a Kind
- Bigger fish to fry - there are more important things to do
- R&R: — rest and leisure
- Not in the cards - not destined/unlikely
- Take it to the bank - pure truth
- Put out fires - solve urgent problems
- let's slide - close your eyes to something
- Drop the ball - make a mistake
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