English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
Alphabetical List of Idioms - P, page 5
from: 'picture of health'
to: 'pigs get fat'
- picture of health
- Someone who looks the picture of health looks extremely healthy.
"Nice to see you again Mr. Brown. I must say you look the picture of health!"
- Someone who looks the picture of health looks extremely healthy.
- a picture is worth a thousand words
- This expression means that a picture can give just as much information as a large amount of descriptive text.
"Look at the picture of the crash! A picture is worth a thousand words isn't it?"
- This expression means that a picture can give just as much information as a large amount of descriptive text.
- get the picture
- A person who gets the picture understands what is being explained or described.
"The alarm went off and people started running everywhere - you get the picture I'm sure!"
- A person who gets the picture understands what is being explained or described.
- pie in the sky
- If an idea or project is pie in the sky, it is completely unrealistic or unlikely to be achieved.
"The promise of low-cost housing for everyone turned out to be pie in the sky."
- If an idea or project is pie in the sky, it is completely unrealistic or unlikely to be achieved.
- (as) easy as pie
- If something is easy as pie, it is very easy to do.
"How did the English test go?" "No problem - it was as easy as pie."
- If something is easy as pie, it is very easy to do.
- eat humble pie
- If you eat humble pie, you are forced to admit that you were wrong and apologize.
"After openly criticizing Bill's work, Fred had to eat humble pie when Bill was elected 'salesman of the year'."
- If you eat humble pie, you are forced to admit that you were wrong and apologize.
- pie-eyed
- Someone who is pie-eyed is completely drunk.
"He had never taken an alcoholic drink so after one beer the boy was pie-eyed."
- Someone who is pie-eyed is completely drunk.
- piece of the action
- When someone wants a piece of the action, they want to
participate in what other people are doing and benefit from it.
"The songwriter thought the show would be a success so he wanted a piece of the action."
- When someone wants a piece of the action, they want to
participate in what other people are doing and benefit from it.
- piece of cake
- To refer to something as a piece of cake means that you consider it to be very easy.
"The English test was a piece of cake!"
- To refer to something as a piece of cake means that you consider it to be very easy.
- go to pieces
- If you go to pieces, for example after a terrible
shock, you are so upset or distressed that you cannot lead a normal life.
"Jack nearly went to pieces when his son died in a car crash."
- If you go to pieces, for example after a terrible
shock, you are so upset or distressed that you cannot lead a normal life.
- make a pig of yourself
- If you make a pig of yourself, you eat and drink too much.
"Watch what you eat. Don't make a pig of yourself!"
- If you make a pig of yourself, you eat and drink too much.
- on the pig's back
- A person who is on the pig's back is in a state of luck and everything is going well for them.
"Before the recession, the country was on the pig's back, but the situation has changed greatly."
- A person who is on the pig's back is in a state of luck and everything is going well for them.
- put lipstick on a pig
- This expression means that to 'dress up' something unappealing or ugly, in a vain attempt to make it look better, is like putting
lipstick on a pig.
"Flowers on that ugly old bridge would be (like) putting lipstick on a pig!"
- This expression means that to 'dress up' something unappealing or ugly, in a vain attempt to make it look better, is like putting
lipstick on a pig.
- pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
- You should be satisfied when you have enough; if you are too greedy, like a hog, you risk losing everything.
- You should be satisfied when you have enough; if you are too greedy, like a hog, you risk losing everything.
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