Idiom ｜ Call a Spade a Spade
The idiom “call a spade a spade” has a long and colorful history. The spade in question is not the suit from a deck of playing cards, but …
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Idiom ｜ Keep Your Shirt On
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 …
Idiom ｜ Rain On My Parade
The idiom ‘to rain on someone’s parade’ is a fairly young idiom, popularized by Barbra Streisand. The idiom means to prevent someone from …
Idiom ｜ The Ides of March
“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 …
Idiom ｜ Give the Cold Shoulder
Giving someone “the cold shoulder” dates back to Scotland and its original meaning that you won’t expect. Let’s learn this idiom and …
Idiom ｜ Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
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 …
Idiom ｜ Lipstick on a Pig
The idiom “lipstick on a pig” has been around for centuries, though in much different forms. Evolving in the 20th century, it means …
Idiom ｜ Head In The Clouds
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 …
Idiom ｜ Go Apeshit
The idiom ‘to go apeshit’ evolved from an earlier phrase, ‘to go ape,’ which most likely originated on college campuses in the southwest United States. The idiom has two different meanings. It can mean …
Idiom: Hang In There
The idiom ‘hang in there’ rose to popularity in the 1970s with the release of one of the first motivational posters, showing a cat hanging from a bamboo pole. The idiom means …