Idioms (イディオム)

The idiom “keep your shirt on” refers to the tendency of men to take their shirt off before fighting, which helps explain what the phrase …

The idiom ‘to rain on someone’s parade’ is a fairly young idiom, popularized by Barbra Streisand. The idiom means to prevent someone from …

“The ides of March” falls on March 15th and has become linked to misfortune and doom. The idiom means to beware of March 15th but it can …

Giving someone “the cold shoulder” dates back to Scotland and its original meaning that you won’t expect. Let’s learn this idiom and …

To turn over a new leaf dates back to the 1500s and this case the ‘leaf’ in the idiom does not refer to the leaves growing on trees. It’s …

‘Christmas came early’ is another idiom with hidden origins from the early to 20th century. The idiom is used when something …

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth dates back to a time when horses were a common gift, but the idiom is still widely used and means …

Hair of the dog, short for hair of the dog that bit you originally referred to a method of treating rabies. Now it has a much different …

The idiom “lipstick on a pig” has been around for centuries, though in much different forms. Evolving in the 20th century, it means …

The idiom to ‘have one’s head in the clouds’ dates all the way back to the mid-1600s. The phrase means that someone is …