Idioms
A bad apple
Be a piece of cake
Be all ears
Be the apple
of someone's eye
Be as American as apple pie
Be as blind as a bat.
Backfire
Bark up the wrong tree
Beat around the bush
Beat it
Bend over backward/backwards
Bite off more than one can chew
Bookworm
The bottom line
Bring the house down
Be broke
Bug someone
Butterflies in someone's
stomach
Can't make head nor tail (out)
of something / someone
Cast pearls before
swine
Catch someone's eye
Be chicken
Cold feet
Cold turkey
Cook someone's goose
Be (as) cool as a cucumber
Cool someone's heels
Couch potato
Be cut from the same cloth
Dear John letter
Don't let the grass
grow under your feet.
Be down in the dumps
Drive someone up the wall
Eat out
Easy as pie
Eat one's words
Fall in love with someone/something
Feel like a fish out
of water
Be fishy
Food for thought
A frog in someone's throat
Get over something
Get up (Wake up) on the wrong side
of the bed
Give someone a hand
Be glued to something
Go nuts
Grab a bite
Great minds think alike.
A hand-me-down
Hat trick
Here you go / are
(Somebody's) heart sinks
Hit the books
Hit the ceiling / roof
Hit the nail on the head
Hold one's horses
Hit the sack/hay
Holy Cow
Be in a pickle
Be in the same boat
It's easier said than done.
Be in hot water
It's about time
Keep an eye on someone/something
Keep one's bed
Kick the bucket
Kill time
Know by heart
The last/final straw
Let someone know
Be like taking candy from a baby
Be like the cat that got the cream
Low-key
Make ends meet
Feel / Look like a million
dollars
Not hold water
Be on the tip of
someone's tongue
Once in a blue moon
Out of the blue
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Be over the hill
Pop the question
Play it by ear
Pop quiz
Pull someone's leg
Put all your eggs into one basket
Put yourself in someone's
shoes
Race against the clock/time
Rain cats and dogs
Read between the lines
Rings a bell
See the light
Shake a leg
Be shaking like a leaf
So far so good
Be sold out
Speak of the devil
Stay up
Stuffed shirt
Surf the Internet/Net/Web
Take a leaf out of someone's book
Take it easy
Take to something like a duck to water
Tearjerker
That makes two of
us.
That's that.
Throw in the towel
The tip of the iceberg
Time will tell.
Be tongue-tied
Top dog
Turn over a new leaf
Turn your back on (someone)
Twenty-four seven
Be under pressure
Be up and running
Be up in the air
Wear one's heart on one's sleeve
When it rains, it pours.
When pigs fly
You can say that
again.