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| id | category | idiom | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 | Money | Money talks | This means that people can convey many messages with money, and many things can be discovered about people by observing the way they use their money. |
| 1502 | Money | Money to burn | If someone is very rich, they have money to burn. |
| 1503 | Money | More bang for your buck | (USA) Something that will give you more bang for your buck will deliver more value than any other option. |
| 1504 | Money | Nickel tour | (USA) If someone gives you a nickel tour, they show you around a place. (Fifty-cent tour is also used.) |
| 1505 | Money | Not have two nickels to rub together | (USA) If a person doesnt have two nickels to rub together, they are very poor. |
| 1506 | Money | Not have two pennies to rub together | If someone hasnt got two pennies to rub together, they are very poor indeed. |
| 1507 | Money | Not worth a red cent | (USA) If something is not worth a red cent, it has no value. |
| 1508 | Money | On the knock | (UK) If you buy something on the knock, you pay for it in instalments. |
| 1509 | Money | On the money | If you are on the money, you are right about something. |
| 1510 | Money | On the never-never | (UK) If you buy something on the never-never, you buy it on long-term credit. |
| 1511 | Money | One man's trash is another man's treasure | What is useless to one person might be valuable to another. |
| 1512 | Money | Other side of the coin | The other side of the coin is a different, usually opposing, view of a situation. (Flip side of the coin is an alternative.) |
| 1513 | Money | Out of your own pocket | If someone does something out of their own pocket, they pay all the expenses involved. |
| 1514 | Money | Pay on the nail | If you pay on the nail, you pay promptly in cash. |
| 1515 | Money | Pay the piper | When you pay the piper, you have to accept the consequences of something that you have done wrong or badly. |
| 1516 | Money | Pay your dues | If you have paid your dues, you have had your own struggles and earned your place or position. |
| 1517 | Money | Pennies on the dollar | (USA) If something is pennies on the dollar, its much cheaper than it cost originally. |
| 1518 | Money | Penny ante | (USA) Something that is very unimportant is penny ante. |
| 1519 | Money | Penny pincher | A penny pincher is a mean person or who is very frugal. |
| 1520 | Money | Penny wise, pound foolish | Someone who is penny wise, pound foolish can be very careful or mean with small amounts of money, yet wasteful and extravagant with large sums. |
| 1521 | Money | Pick up the tab | A person who pays for everyone picks up the tab. |
| 1522 | Money | Pin money | (UK) If you work for pin money, you work not because you need to but because it gives you money for extra little luxuries and treats. |
| 1523 | Money | Pink pound | (UK) In the UK, the pink pound is an idiom for the economic power of gay people. |
| 1524 | Money | Quick buck | If you make some money easily, you make a quick buck. |
| 1525 | Money | Quids in | (UK) If somebody is quids in, they stand to make a lot of money from something. |
| 1526 | Money | Rags to riches | Someone who starts life very poor and becomes rich goes from rags to riches. |
| 1527 | Money | Rich man's family | A rich mans family consists of one son and one daughter. |
| 1528 | Money | Rolling in money | If someone has a lot of money, more than they could possibly need, they are rolling in money. |
| 1529 | Money | Rough diamond | A rough diamond is a person who might be a bit rude but who is good underneath it all. |
| 1530 | Money | Scot free | If someone escapes scot free, they avoid payment or punishment. Scot is an old word for a tax, so it originally referred to avoiding taxes, though now has a wider sense of not being punished for someone that you have done. |
| 1531 | Money | Short-change | If you are short-changed, someone cheats you of money or doesnt give you full value for something. |
| 1532 | Money | Show me the money | When people say this, they either want to know how much they will be paid for something or want to see evidence that something is valuable or worth paying for. |
| 1533 | Money | Sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question | The sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question is the most important question that can be asked about something. |
| 1534 | Money | Sound as a pound | (UK) if something is as sound as a pound, it is very good or reliable. |
| 1535 | Money | Spend a penny | (UK) This is a euphemistic idiom meaning to go to the toilet. |
| 1536 | Money | Spend like a sailor | Someone who spends their money wildly spends like a sailor. |
| 1537 | Money | Spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar | (UK) If someone spoils the ship for a hapworth (halfpennys worth) of tar, they spoil something completely by trying to make a small economy. |
| 1538 | Money | Square Mile | (UK) The Square Mile is the City, the financial area of London. |
| 1539 | Money | Stop on a dime | (USA) If something like a vehicle stops on a dime, it stops very quickly and accurately. |
| 1540 | Money | Take someone to the cleaners | If someone is taken to the cleaners, they are cheated, defrauded or lose a lot of money. |
| 1541 | Money | Ten a penny | (UK) If something is ten a penny, it is very common. ("Two a penny" is also used.) |
| 1542 | Money | That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee | (USA) This is used to describe something that is deemed worthless. "Hes got a Ph.D. in Philosophy." "So? That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee." |
| 1543 | Money | The penny dropped | When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood. |
| 1544 | Money | Treasure trove | Something of great value or a very good source. |
| 1545 | Money | Turn up like a bad penny | If someone turns up like a bad penny, they go somewhere where they are not wanted. |
| 1546 | Money | Two cents | If you add or throw in your two cents, you give your opinion on an issue. |
| 1547 | Music | And all that jazz | This idiom means that everything related or similar is included. |
| 1548 | Music | Bells on | (USA) To be somewhere with bells on means to arrive there happy and delighted to attend. |
| 1549 | Music | Blow your own horn | If you blow your own horn, you boast about your achievements and abilities. (Blow your own trumpet is an alternative form.) |
| 1550 | Music | Blow your own trumpet | If someone blows their own trumpet, they boast about their talents and achievements.? (Blow your own horn is an alternative form.) |
| 1551 | Music | Call the tune | The person who calls the tune makes the important decisions about something. |
| 1552 | Music | Change your tune | If someone changes their ideas or the way they talk about them, they change their tune. |
| 1553 | Music | Clear as a bell | If something is as clear as a bell, it is very clear or easy to understand. |
| 1554 | Music | Face the music | If you have to face the music, you have to accept the negative consequences of something you have done wrong. |
| 1555 | Music | Fiddle while Rome burns | If people are fiddling while Rome burns, they are wasting their time on futile things while problems threaten to destroy them. |
| 1556 | Music | Fine tuning | Small adjustments to improve something or to get it working are called fine tuning. |
| 1557 | Music | Fit as a fiddle | If you are fit as a fiddle, you are in perfect health. |
| 1558 | Music | For a song | If you buy or sell something for a song, it is very cheap. |
| 1559 | Music | Hit the right note | If you hit the right note, you speak or act in a way that has a positive effect on people.(Strike the right note is also used.) |
| 1560 | Music | It takes two to tango | This idiom is used to suggest that when things go wrong, both sides are involved and neither side is completely innocent. |
| 1561 | Music | March to the beat of your own drum | If people march to the beat of their own drum, they do things the way they want without taking other people into consideration. |
| 1562 | Music | Music to my ears | If something someone says is music to your ears, it is exactly what you had wanted to hear. |
| 1563 | Music | Play by ear | If you play by ear, you deal with something in an impromptu manner, without guidelines or rules. It refers to playing music without using written notation. |
| 1564 | Music | Play second fiddle | If you play second fiddle, you take a subordinate role behind someone more important. |
| 1565 | Music | Pull out all the stops | If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you possibly can to achieve the result you want. |
| 1566 | Music | See you on the big drum | A good night phrase to children. |
| 1567 | Music | Strike a chord | If strikes a chord, it is familiar to you, reminds you of something or is connected to you somehow. |
| 1568 | Music | Toot you own horn | If someone toot their own horn, they like to boast about their achievements. |
| 1569 | Music | Whistle for it | If someone says that you can whistle for something, they are determined to ensure that you dont get it. |
| 1570 | Music | Whistle-stop tour | A whistle-stop tour is when someone visits a number of places quickly, not stopping for long. |
| 1571 | Music | Whistling Dixie | (USA) If someone is whistling Dixie, they talk about things in a more positive way than the reality. |
| 1572 | Music | Whistling in the dark | If someone is whistling in the dark, they believe in a positive result, even though everybody else is sure it will not happen. |
| 1573 | Music | You can't unring a bell | This means that once something has been done, you have to live with the consequences as it cant be undone. |
| 1574 | Nationality or ethnicity | An Englishman's home is his castle | (UK) This means that what happens in a persons home or private life is their business and should not be subject to outside interference. |
| 1575 | Nationality or ethnicity | Chinese walls | Chinese walls are regulatory information barriers that aim to stop the flow of information that could be misused, especially in financial corporations. |
| 1576 | Nationality or ethnicity | Chinese whispers | (UK) When a story is told from person to person, especially if it is gossip or scandal, it inevitably gets distorted and exaggerated. This process is called Chinese whispers. |
| 1577 | Nationality or ethnicity | Double Dutch | (UK) If something is double Dutch, it is completely incomprehensible. |
| 1578 | Nationality or ethnicity | Dutch auction | If something is sold by setting a price, then reducing it until someone buys it, it is sold in a Dutch auction. It can also mean that something is changed until it is accepted by everyone. |
| 1579 | Nationality or ethnicity | Dutch courage | Dutch courage is the reckless bravery caused by drinking too much. |
| 1580 | Nationality or ethnicity | Dutch treat | If something like a meal is a Dutch treat, then each person pays their own share of the bill. |
| 1581 | Nationality or ethnicity | Dutch uncle | A Dutch uncle is a person who gives unwelcome advice. |
| 1582 | Nationality or ethnicity | Dutch wife | A Dutch wife is a long pillow or a hot water bottle. |
| 1583 | Nationality or ethnicity | For England | (UK) A person who talks for England, talks a lot- if you do something for England, you do it a lot or to the limit. |
| 1584 | Nationality or ethnicity | French leave | To take French leave is to leave a gathering without saying goodbye or without permission. |
| 1585 | Nationality or ethnicity | Go Dutch | If you go Dutch in a restaurant, you pay equal shares for the meal. |
| 1586 | Nationality or ethnicity | Good Samaritan | A good Samaritan is a persoon wh helps others in need. |
| 1587 | Nationality or ethnicity | Greek to me | If you dont understand something, its all Greek to you. |
| 1588 | Nationality or ethnicity | If you'll pardon my French | (UK) This idiom is used as a way of apologising for swearing. |
| 1589 | Nationality or ethnicity | Indian file | If people walk in Indian file, they walk in a line one behind the other. |
| 1590 | Nationality or ethnicity | Indian giver | An Indian giver gives something, then tries to take it back. |
| 1591 | Nationality or ethnicity | Indian summer | If there is a period of warmer weather in late autumn, it is an Indian summer. |
| 1592 | Nationality or ethnicity | Like Chinese arithmetic | If something is complicated and hard to understand, its like Chinese arithmetic. |
| 1593 | Nationality or ethnicity | Mexican standoff | When there is a deadlock in strategy and neither side can do anything that will ensure victory, its a Mexican standoff. |
| 1594 | Nationality or ethnicity | More holes than Swiss cheese | If something has more holes than a Swiss cheese, it is incomplete,and lacks many parts. |
| 1595 | Nationality or ethnicity | Perfidious Albion | England is known to some as perfidious Albion, implying that it is not trustworthy in its dealings with foreigners. |
| 1596 | Nationality or ethnicity | Scotch Mist | The phrase Scotch mist is used humorously to refer to something that is hard to find or doesnt exist - something imagined. |
| 1597 | Nationality or ethnicity | Slow boat to China | This idiom is used to describe something that is very slow and takes a long time. |
| 1598 | Nationality or ethnicity | Spanish practices | Unauthorized working methods that benefit those who follow them are Spanish practices. |
| 1599 | Nationality or ethnicity | Stars and stripes | The stars and stripes is the American flag. |
| 1600 | Nationality or ethnicity | Too many chiefs and not enough Indians | When there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians, there are two many managers and not enough workers to work efficiently. |
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