Learn Idioms and Phrases: Free course (All levels)

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Rain cats and dogs

2. Bolt from the blue

3. Cross your i's and dot your t's

4. Pour oil on troubled waters

5. Keep the ball rolling

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Around the clock

2. Balloon goes up

3. Something is like watching the grass grow

4. Throw dust into one's eyes

5. Salad days

6. Other (bigger) fish to fry

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Go to the dogs

2. Pay/Cash on the nail

3. Penelope's web

4. Stir up a hornet's nest

5. Tall tale

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Feather in one’s cap

2. A sacred cow

3. Follow one’s nose

4. To be in a quandary

5. Seamy side of something

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. The jury is (still) out

2. Have a finger in every pie

3. To be on cloud nine

4. Flying visit

5. Kith and kin

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Make amends for

2. Go for the jugular

3. Keep a level head

4. At loggerheads

5. As daft as a brush (without bristles)

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Rise with the lark

2. Shot in the arm

3. Arm-chair critic

4. To set Thames on fire

5. In the soup

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Chip off the old block

2. Apple doesn’t fall from the tree

3. Gatecrasher

4. Dog in the manger

5. Give a wide berth to something

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Mend one’s ways

2. Pale into insignificance

3. Carry the ball

4. Dress someone down

5. Drag someone’s feet

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Catch a tartar

2. To keep in abeyance

3. The evening of life

4. Under a cloud

5. To clip one’s wings

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Weal and woe

2. Button one’s lips

3. A cuckoo in the nest

4. Catnap

5. For all intents and purposes

In this video, you will learn the following idioms and their origins -

1. Not know beans about something

2. Go haywire

3. The gnomes of Zurich

4. Cap in hand

5. Beyond the pale

6. Straw in the wind