150 People Idioms Lists With Meanings

People  Idioms

• A blessing in disguise: Something good that isn’t recognized at first.
• A dime a dozen: Something common and not special.
• Beat around the bush: Avoid saying what you mean, usually because it’s uncomfortable.
• Bite the bullet: To do something painful or unpleasant that is unavoidable.
• Break the ice: To start a conversation in a social setting.
• Burn the midnight oil: To work late into the night.
• Caught red-handed: caught in the act of doing something wrong.
• Cry over spilt milk: Worrying about something that cannot be changed.
• Cut corners: To do something the easiest or cheapest way.
• Devil’s advocate: To argue the opposite just for the sake of argument.
• Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Don’t assume something will happen before it actually does.
• Drive someone up the wall: To annoy someone very much.
• Every cloud has a silver lining: There is something good in every bad situation.
• Fit as a fiddle: To be in good health.
• Get out of hand: To get out of control.
• Give the benefit of the doubt: Believe someone’s statement without proof.
• Go the extra mile: Make a special effort beyond what is expected.
• Hit the nail on the head: To be exactly right about something.
• In the heat of the moment: overwhelmed by what is happening in the present.
• Jump on the bandwagon: Join others in doing something that is currently popular.
• Kill two birds with one stone: To accomplish two things at once.
• Let the cat out of the bag: Reveal a secret by accident.
• Make a long story short: Tell something briefly.
• Miss the boat: Miss an opportunity.
• No pain, no gain: You have to work hard for something you want.
• On thin ice: In a risky situation.
• Once in a blue moon: Very rarely.
• Play it by ear: To improvise.
• Pull someone’s leg: To joke or trick someone.
• Put all your eggs in one basket: Relying on one single thing for success.
• Rain on someone’s parade: To spoil someone’s plans.
• Spill the beans: Reveal a secret.
• Steal someone’s thunder: Take the credit for someone else’s achievements.
• The ball is in your court. It’s your decision or responsibility now.
• The best of both worlds: the ideal situation.
• Throw in the towel: To give up.
• Under the weather: feeling ill.
• Up in the air: uncertain or undecided.
• When pigs fly: Something that will never happen.
• Your guess is as good as mine: I have no idea.
• Barking up the wrong tree: looking in the wrong place or accusing the wrong person.
• Bite off more than you can chew: Take on a task that is too big.
• Blow off steam: Get rid of anger or energy by doing something active.
• Break the bank: To be very expensive.
• Burn bridges: destroy relationships.
• By the skin of your teeth: Just barely succeed.
• Caught between a rock and a hard place: In a difficult situation with no easy choice.
• Cut to the chase: Get to the point.
• Digging your own grave: Causing your own failure or downfall.
• Drive a hard bargain: To negotiate forcefully.
• Fish out of water: Someone in an unfamiliar or uncomfortable situation.
• Get cold feet: To feel too scared to do something.
• Get your act together: Start to behave in a more organized or effective way.
• Give someone the cold shoulder: To ignore someone.
• Go back to the drawing board. Start something over because it failed.
• Go down in flames: Fail spectacularly.
• Go out on a limb: Take a risk.
• Hit the sack: Go to bed.
• In the nick of time: Just in time before it’s too late.
• Keep an eye on: To watch or monitor someone or something.
• Kick the bucket: To die.
• Know the ropes: To be familiar with how something works.
• Let sleeping dogs lie. Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems.
• Lose your touch: Lose your ability or talent in something.
• Method to the madness: Something that seems crazy but actually has a reason behind it.
• Muddy the waters: Make a situation more confusing.
• No stone unturned: to look everywhere for something.
• Not playing with a full deck: mentally deficient or not very bright.
• Off the hook: No longer in trouble or responsible for something.
• On cloud nine: Very happy.
• Once in a lifetime: Something that happens very rarely.
• Out of the blue: unexpectedly.
• Over the moon: extremely happy or pleased.
• Piece of cake: Something very easy to do.
• Pull yourself together. To calm down and behave normally.
• Raining cats and dogs: Very heavy rain.
• Rock the boat: To cause trouble or disturbance.

List of People Idioms

• See eye to eye: To agree fully.
• Sit on thefence.  To remain neutral or undecided.
• Skeleton in the closet: A hidden and potentially embarrassing secret.
• Sleep on it:too think about something overnight before making a decision.
• Straight from the horse’s mouth: From a reliable source.
• Take with a grain of salt:too not take something too seriously.
• Taste of your own medicine: To be treated in the same negative way you treat others.
• The early bird catches the worm:peoplee who wake up early or do something before others get ahead.
• The elephant in the room: An obvious problem that everyone avoids discussing.
• Throw caution to the wind: Take a risk.
• Through thick and thin: Through good times and bad times.
• Timeflies. Timee passes quickly.
• To add insult to injury: To make a bad situation worse.
• Turn a blind eye:too ignore something and pretend not to see it.
• Under the radar: Not noticed or detected.
• Water under the bridge: Something that happened in the past and is no longer important.
• Wear your heart on your sleeve: To show your emotions openly.
• When it rains, itpours. Whenn one bad thing happens, many others follow.
• Wrap your head around something: Understand something complicated.
• You can’t judge a book by itscover. Don’tt judge something or someone based on appearance.
• Zip your lip: To keep quiet or stop talking.
• Birds of a feather flock together: People who are alike tend to hang out together.
• Don’t put all your eggs in onebasket. Don’tt risk everything on one single plan.
• Eat your words: Admit that what you said was wrong.
• Face the music: Accept the consequences of your actions.
• Get a second wind: Have a burst of energy after being tired.
• Go down the rabbit hole:too enter into a complicated situation or series of events.
• Hold your horses: Wait a moment; be patient.
• In the same boat: In the same situation as others.
• Keep your chin up: Stay positive in a tough situation.
• Knee-jerk reaction:ann automatic, quick response.
• Let the dustsettle. Waitt for a situation to calm down.
• Like two peas in a pod: Very similar or close.
• Make a mountain out of a molehill: Overreact to a small problem.
• No strings attached: No conditions or obligations.
• Off the cuff: Without preparation.
• On the ball:alertt and aware of things.
• Out of the woods:outt of danger or difficulty.
• Penny for your thoughts: A way of asking what someone is thinking.
• Put the cart before thehorse. Doo things in the wrong order.
• Roll with the punches: Adapt to difficult circumstances.
• Sink or swim:succeedd or fail without help.
• Skating on thin ice:doingg something risky.
• Stick to your guns: Maintain your position or opinion.
• The ball is in yourcourt. It’ss your decision to act now.
• The writing on the wall: Clear signs of something about to happen.
• Throw in the towel: Give up or surrender.
• Through the grapevine: Hear gossip or rumors.
• Tighten your belt: Spend less money.
• Under your nose: Right in front of you.
• Walk a mile in someone’s shoes: Understand someone else’s perspective.
• Waste not, want not: Don’t waste things, and you won’t lack them later.
• Weather the storm: Survive a difficult situation.
• Work like a dog: Work very hard.
• You can’t have your cake and eat ittoo. Youu can’t have it both ways.
• A bitter pill to swallow: A difficult fact to accept.
• A chip on your shoulder:holdingg a grudge or feeling anger.
• A drop in the bucket:a small,, insignificant amount.
• A fool’s paradise:a falsee sense of happiness.
• A house of cards: Something that is shaky or weak.
• A leopard can’t change itsspots. Peoplee can’t change their basic nature.
• A perfect storm:thee worst possible situation.
• A shot in the dark: A wild guess.
• A stitch in time saves nine: Fixing a small problem now prevents a bigger problem later.
• A taste of things to come: A preview of the future.
• A watched pot neverboils. Timee seems to go slower when you’re waiting for something.
• All bark and no bite: Someone who talks tough but doesn’t act tough.
• All that glitters is notgold. Nott everything that looks good is valuable.
• At the drop of a hat:withoutt delay or hesitation.
• Back to square one: Return to the starting point.
• Barking up the wrong tree: Pursuing the wrong course of action.
• Beggars can’t bechoosers; peoplee in need must accept what they are given.
• Bite your tongue: Stop yourself from saying something.

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