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id | category | idiom | description |
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2101 | Time | Clean your clock | If you clean your clock, you beat someone decisively in a contest or fight. |
2102 | Time | Come of age | When something comes of age it develops completely and reaches maturity. When someone comes of age, they reach adulthood or fulfill their potential. |
2103 | Time | Crack of dawn | The crack of dawn is very early in the morning. |
2104 | Time | Crunch time | When people, companies, etc, have to make an important decision that will have a considerable effect on their future, it is crunch time. |
2105 | Time | Day in the sun | If you have your day in the sun, you get attention and are appreciated. |
2106 | Time | Days are numbered | When someone’s days are numbered, they are expected to die soon. |
2107 | Time | Do time | (UK) When someone is doing time, they are in prison. |
2108 | Time | Don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon | If you dont know what to do, you dont know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon. |
2109 | Time | Dwell on the past | Thinking too much about the past, so that it becomes a problem is to dwell on the past. |
2110 | Time | Eleventh hour | If something happens at the eleventh hour, it happens right at the last minute. |
2111 | Time | Even a broken clock is right twice a day | This is used when people get lucky and are undeservedly successful.(Even a stopped clock is right twice a day is also used.) |
2112 | Time | Feast today, famine tomorrow | If you indulge yourself with all that you have today, you may have to go without tomorrow. |
2113 | Time | Five o'clock shadow | A five oclock shadow is the facial hair that a man gets if he doesnt shave for a day or two. |
2114 | Time | For the time being | For the time being indicates that an action or state will continue into the future, but is temporary. Im sharing an office for the time being. |
2115 | Time | Full of the joys of spring | If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy. |
2116 | Time | Fullness of time | If something happens in the fullness of time, it will happen when the time is right and appropriate. |
2117 | Time | Girl Friday | A girl Friday is a female employee who assists someone without any specific duties. |
2118 | Time | Given the day that's in it | (Irish) This idiom is used when something is obvious because of the day that it occurs: traffic, for example would be busy around a football stadium on game day, given the day thats in it. On any other day the traffic would be unexplainable, but because its game day its obvious why there is traffic. |
2119 | Time | Good time | If you make good time on a journey, you manage to travel faster than you expected. |
2120 | Time | Have your moments | Someone who has his or her moments exhibits a positive behavior pattern on an occasional basis but not generally. |
2121 | Time | Here today, gone tomorrow | Money, happiness and other desirable things are often here today, gone tomorrow, which means that they dont last for very long. |
2122 | Time | Hour of need | A time when someone really needs something, almost a last chance, is their hour of need. |
2123 | Time | In an instant | If something happens in an instant, it happens very rapidly. |
2124 | Time | Just in the nick of time | If you do something in the nick of time, you just manage to do it just in time, with seconds to spare. |
2125 | Time | Laugh a minute | Someone who is a laugh a minute is very funny. |
2126 | Time | Legend in your own lunchtime | Somebody who becomes a legend in their own lifetime acquires fame, but often only to a select or specialist audience, while they are still alive. |
2127 | Time | Let's call it a day | This is used as a way of suggesting that it is time to stop working on something. |
2128 | Time | Like clockwork | If something happens like clockwork, it happens at very regular times or intervals. |
2129 | Time | Like there's no tomorrow | If you do something like theres no tomorrow, you do it fast or energetically. |
2130 | Time | Long time no hear | The speaker could say this when they have not heard from a person, either through phone calls or emails for a long time. |
2131 | Time | Long time no see | Long time no see means that the speaker has not seen that person for a long time. |
2132 | Time | Make my day | If something makes your day, it satisfies you or makes you happy. |
2133 | Time | Mile a minute | To do something very quickly. For example: He was talking a mile a minute. |
2134 | Time | Nick of time | If you do something in the nick of time, you do it at the very last minute or second. |
2135 | Time | No time like the present | If people say that theres no time like the present , they believe that it is far better to do something now than to leave it for later, in which case it might never get done. |
2136 | Time | No time to lose | If theres no time to lose, then its time to get started otherwise it wont be finished on time. |
2137 | Time | Not born yesterday | When someone says that they werent born yesterday, they mean that they are not naive or easily fooled. |
2138 | Time | Not give the time of day | If you wouldnt give the time of day to someone, you dislike them so much that you would not even use common courtesy. |
2139 | Time | Not on my watch | Someone distancing themselves from a situation could say that it is not on their watch. |
2140 | Time | Now and then | This idiom means occasionally. |
2141 | Time | One-man band | If one person does all the work or has all the responsibility somewhere, then they are a one-man band. |
2142 | Time | Open all hours | If a shop or suchlike is open all hours, it only closes, if at all, terribly late. |
2143 | Time | Pass the time of day | If you pass the time of day with somebody, you stop and say hello, enquire how they are and other such acts of social politeness. |
2144 | Time | Play for time | If you play for time, you delay something because because you are not ready or need more time to thing about it.? Eg. I knew I had to play for time until the police arrived. |
2145 | Time | Pressed for time | If you are pressed for time, you are in a hurry or working against a very tight schedule. |
2146 | Time | Question of time | If somethings a question of time, its certain to happen, though we dont know exactly when. |
2147 | Time | Rough patch | A rough patch is a difficult or trying period. |
2148 | Time | Rue the day | This means that the person will one day bitterly regret what they have done. |
2149 | Time | Since time immemorial | If something has happened since time immemorial, its been going on for such a long time that nobody can remember a time without it. |
2150 | Time | Small-time | If a person or a thing is called small-time it means theyre inconsequential, not worth much, dont play in the big leagues, as in a small-time operator. |
2151 | Time | Some other time | If somebody says theyll do something some other time, they mean at some indefinite time in the future, possibly never, but they certainly dont want to feel obliged to fix a specific time or date. |
2152 | Time | Spur of the moment | If you do something on the spur of the moment, you do it because you felt like it at that time, without any planning or preparation. |
2153 | Time | Stitch in time saves nine | A stitch in time saves nine means that if a job needs doing it is better to do it now, because it will only get worse, like a hole in clothes that requires stitching. |
2154 | Time | Stop a clock | A face that could (or would) stop a clock is very ugly indeed. |
2155 | Time | Strange at the best of times | To describe someone or something as really weird or unpleasant in a mild way. |
2156 | Time | Stroll down memory lane | If you take a stroll down memory lane, you talk about the past or revisit places that were important to you in the past. (You can also take a trip down memory lane.) |
2157 | Time | The sands of time | The sands of time is an idiom meaning that time runs out either through something reaching an end or through a persons death. It comes from the sand used in hourglasses, an ancient way of measuring time. |
2158 | Time | Third time's the charm | This is used when the third time one tries something, one achieves a successful outcome. |
2159 | Time | Time and again | If something happens time and again, it happens repeatedly. (Time and time again is also used.) |
2160 | Time | Time and tide wait for no man | This is used as a way of suggestion that people should act without delay. |
2161 | Time | Time does sail | This idioms means that time passes by unnoticed. |
2162 | Time | Time flies | This idiom means that time moves quickly and often unnoticed. |
2163 | Time | Time is on my side | If time is on your side, you have the luxury of not having to worry about how long something will take. |
2164 | Time | Time of your life | If youre having the time of your life, you are enjoying yourself very much indeed. |
2165 | Time | Time-honoured practice | A time-honoured practice is a traditional way of doing something that has become almost universally accepted as the most appropriate or suitable way. |
2166 | Time | To the end of time | To the end of time is an extravagant way of saying forever. |
2167 | Time | Tomorrow's another day | This means that things might turn out better or that there might be another opportunity in the future. |
2168 | Time | Wee hours | Wee hours are the first hours after midnight. |
2169 | Time | Zero hour | The time when something important is to begin is zero hour. |
2170 | Transport & Travel | As much use as a handbrake on a canoe | This idiom is used to describe someone or something as worthless or pointless. |
2171 | Transport & Travel | Asleep at the wheel | If someone is asleep at the wheel, they are not doing their job or taking their responsibilities very carefully. Asleep at the switch is an alternative. |
2172 | Transport & Travel | Backseat driver | A backseat driver is an annoying person who is fond of giving advice to the person performing a task or doing something, especially when the advice is either wrong or unwelcome. |
2173 | Transport & Travel | Beam me up, Scotty | Something someone says when they want to get out of a place or situation, meaning Get me out of here!. (It comes from the TV series and movies Star Trek, though the exact words used were a little different.) |
2174 | Transport & Travel | Circle the wagons | (USA) If you circle the wagons, you stop communicating with people who dont think the same way as you to avoid their ideas.? It can also mean to bring everyone together to defend a group against an attack. |
2175 | Transport & Travel | Clear the decks | When you clear the decks, you get ready for an important action and put away items that might get in your way. |
2176 | Transport & Travel | Climb on the bandwagon | When people climb on the bandwagon they do something because it is popular and everyone else is doing it. |
2177 | Transport & Travel | Country mile | (USA) A country mile is used to describe a long distance. |
2178 | Transport & Travel | Fall off the back of a lorry | (UK) If someone tries to sell you something that has fallen of the back of a lorry, they are trying to sell you stolen goods. |
2179 | Transport & Travel | Fall off the wagon | If someone falls off the wagon, they start drinking after having given up completely for a time. |
2180 | Transport & Travel | Fifth wheel | (USA) A fifth wheel is something unnecessary or useless. |
2181 | Transport & Travel | Full throttle | If you do something full throttle, you do it with as much speed and energy as you can. |
2182 | Transport & Travel | Go play in traffic | This is used as a way of telling someone to go away. |
2183 | Transport & Travel | Hit the road | When people hit the road, they leave a place to go somewhere else. |
2184 | Transport & Travel | I'll cross that road when I come to it | Ill think about something just when it happens, not in advance. |
2185 | Transport & Travel | In high gear | (USA) If something is in high gear, it is in a quick-paced mode. If someone is in high gear, they are feverishly on the fast track. |
2186 | Transport & Travel | In the driver's seat | If you are in the drivers seat, you are in charge of something or in control of a situation. |
2187 | Transport & Travel | Jump on the bandwagon | If people jump on the bandwagon, they get involved in something that has recently become very popular. |
2188 | Transport & Travel | Jump the track | Jumping the track is suddenly changing from one plan, activity, idea, etc, to another. |
2189 | Transport & Travel | Off the track | If something puts or throws you off your track, it distracts you or keeps you from achieving what you want. |
2190 | Transport & Travel | On the wagon | If someone is on the wagon, they have stopped drinking alcohol. |
2191 | Transport & Travel | Put the carriage before the horse | If you put the carriage before the horse, you try to do things in the wrong order. |
2192 | Transport & Travel | Put the pedal to the metal | If you put the pedal to the metal, you go faster. |
2193 | Transport & Travel | Rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic | (UK) If people are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, they are making small changes that will have no effect as the project, company, etc, is in very serious trouble. |
2194 | Transport & Travel | Reinvent the wheel | If someone reinvents the wheel, they waste their time doing something that has already been done by other people, when they could be doing something more worthwhile. |
2195 | Transport & Travel | Right up my alley | If something is right up your alley, it suits you perfectly. |
2196 | Transport & Travel | Right up your street | If something is ideal for you, it is right up your street. |
2197 | Transport & Travel | Running on fumes | If someone has used all their energy on something, but must continue, they are running on fumes. It is an expression used when driving a car when the needle is on empty but still running. We say it is running on fumes. |
2198 | Transport & Travel | Ship came in | If your ship has come in, something very good has happened to you. |
2199 | Transport & Travel | Smooth sailing | If something is smooth sailing, then you can progress without difficulty. (Plain sailing is also used.) |
2200 | Transport & Travel | Squeaky wheel gets the grease | (USA) When people say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, they mean that the person who complains or protests the loudest attracts attention and service. |
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