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ENGLISH  IDIOMS  & IDIOMATIC  EXPRESSIONS
  Lists of idioms used in everyday conversational English, with their meaning    
Speak English like a native speaker by learning English idiomatic expressions and proverbs.

"An idiomatic expression is one that is natural for a normal Englishman to say or write." (H.W.Fowler - Dictionary of Modern English Usage.)  

 

 

 

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Lists of idioms by theme:

 

  Ambition-determination   Efficiency -Competence

  Negotiations

  Anger-irritation   Employment - Jobs   Number Idioms
  Animal & bird Idioms   Enthusiasm-impatience   Problems - difficulties
  Anxiety - fear   Feelings-emotions   Relationships
  Arguments-disagreements   Food Idioms   Safety - danger
  Authority - power   Frankness - Sincerity   Secrets - indiscretion
  Behaviour idioms   Fun-enjoyment   Shopping
  Body idioms   Happiness - Sadness   Situations
  Business - Work Idioms   Health Idioms    Speed - rapidity
  Choices - Options   Hesitation - Indecision   Sports Idioms
  Clothes Idioms   Honesty - dishonesty   Success-failure
  Colour idioms   Intelligence-understanding   Suitability
  Communication   Law & Order   Surprise-disbelief
  Comparisons-similitude   Lifestyle - way of life   Thoughts-ideas
  Consequences-effects   Madness - Insanity   Time idioms

  Descriptions of people

  Memory - Remembering   Travel-transport
  Descriptions - places-things   Mistakes-errors   Weather-atmosphere
  Money Idioms
 

 

 
An idiom is a phrase or sentence, whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words,
and which must be learnt as a whole unit.  
(Oxford Dictionary)

 

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