"Would you cut off your ear because the music does not please you?" - A unique idiom used in their society instead of "cut off your nose to spite your face."
"Can't stomach means that you don't like something."
"My eyes were bigger than my stomach means you realize you can't eat all of what you've ordered."
"A pain in the neck is something that's troublesome or bothers you."
"Sometimes in life, you got to risk it for the biscuit."
"You attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."
"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
"Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater; find the devil in the details."
"People don't change, a leopard doesn't change its spots."
"If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make sense."
"I don't think it's weird that people say peace of mind but also piece of your mind."
"The proof of the pudding is in the good code."
"They're like wolves in sheep's clothing. It's a famous line actually."
"Don't tell anyone becomes don't spill the beans."
"That's where the phrase 'that's the way the cookie crumbles' comes from. It comes from the ever-increasing and highly competitive cookie market. The cookie wars are raging."
"Hey, you sued us to try to end our business. Let's see how the cookie crumbles in court."
"Day number three, you're going to focus on English idioms."
"There are no stupid questions, but there are stupid people."
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained in other idioms such as those."
"Idioms are really hard to learn, but they are much, much easier to learn and process if you learn them in context."
"So, when someone says to you, 'This is the greatest thing since sliced bread,' they're saying your idea is great."
"If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, you know it's a duck."
"Remember, the proof of the pudding is in the eating."
"Loose lips don't sink ships... let us have some fun."
"To ride the hobby horse was to 'raise hob' or raise the devil."
"Don't write checks that your briefcase can't cash in."
"The impossible things will happen when pigs fly."
"Don't hunt no more, that dog don't hunt no more."
"America sneezes and the world catches the cold."
"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words may never hurt you."
"Out of the blue means something unexpected happened."
"When something touches a nerve, it means that it upsets you."
"You mess around, you find out. That's just the way it goes."
"It's all fun until the rabbit gets the gun, my friend."
"It's all fun until the rabbit gets that gun."
"Cruise you lose, that's good and by you cruise I mean you."
"You don't bring a baseball bat to a gunfight."
"The blind leading the blind is not a helpful thing."
"If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."
"Good things come in small packages. Am I right?"
"The camouflage isn't always greener on the other side."
"Any comment that ends with swings and roundabouts is a valuable comment."
"Don't bring a knife to a gunfight, just bring a bigger gun."
"Let's just tell the truth and shame the devil."
"As much use as a chocolate teapot."
"I think the phrase was dumb as a rock, right?"
"If something draws up, what does that mean? Shrinks."
"'In like Flynn' came to be used as a way of saying someone was going to be successful with women very quickly."
"Learn idioms. Always learn the idioms because they add depth to your understanding of the language."
"He's going round the twist, he's bogged as a beetle, he's dotty as a dingbat!"
"Translating idioms literally doesn't work because idioms don't mean what they say."
"Who are the Hempels? No clue, but apparently they're not very clean, because this idiom is used to express that something is very messy."
"Expressions like 'raining cats and dogs' and feeling like a million dollars are confusing to me."
"With a rule like that, I guess it was worth crying over spilled milk."
"The whole Bible is not all idioms, right? I mean that should be clear to anybody."
"What's the phrase? Play stupid game, win stupid prize."
"Hit the nail on the head as usual."
"I want you to understand that many times idioms, figures of speech, and things that are connected with nature itself say a great deal more than is written on the page of the word."
"That's just it's a southern idiom when somebody's an idiot you just say that to bless him that way you can say anything you want."
"That's a horse of another collar." - Jack Benny
"Blood they say is thicker than water, but ice is a different matter entirely."
"Close counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and all the people in the friend zone."
"That's what we call hitting two birds with one stone."
"Raise the roof probably originated in the local dialect of the United States South sometime in the mid-1800s."
"That's the way this cookie crumbles."
"Chewing the fat, that's one of my favorites."
"That's where the rubber meets the road."
"It's no use crying over spilt milk."
"It's cold as hell up in here, which I never understood that saying because hell's supposed to be hot."
"When we kick off, it means to start."
"We brush up on something, it means to update or improve yourself."
"Zero in on means to focus closely on something."
"Apple of my eye, a chip off the old block."
"When somebody takes a rain check, it's to indicate that that person cannot accept the invitation right now, but they'd be happy to turn up in the future."
"The squeaky wheel does get greased more often than not."
"I rather have four quarters than 100 pennies."
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led."
"If something is easily achieved, it's a piece of cake."
"You can't bake your cake and eat it too."
"Whoever the very best is, they're considered to be the man, the top dog, the bee's knees, the mutt's nuts, the cat's goddamn pajamas."
"Computer languages are very much like human languages; there's sort of a formal 'this is the way you are supposed to do it' but there's also kind of idioms, the way that people actually write code in practice."
"No use in crying over spilled milk."
"There's a pot for every lid so to speak."
"Idioms are phrases that we use but don't portray what they actually mean."
"You got to risk it for the biscuit."
"If you learn these idioms, you're going to be able to pass any type of exam with flying colors."
"To pass with flying colors means to do something, such as pass an exam, successfully."
"At the end of your rope means having no strength or patience left."
"At the crack of dawn means very early in the morning, usually the time when the sun first appears."
"To have a change of heart means to change your opinion or the way you feel about something."
"Oh boy, now we're really up the creek without a paddle."
"No harm no foul, ever heard of that phrase? That's how it should be."
"To pull the wool over somebody's eyes means to trick or deceive someone so it stops them discovering something."
"Speak Chinese naturally talks about Chinese culture, idioms, slang, all sorts of topics like that."
"It's as simple as pie and as easy as cake."
"One door closes, another one opens, that's not what that saying means, that's not what that means."
"You got to risk it to make the biscuit."
"He thinks he's the greatest thing since sliced bread."
"We only have to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves."
"Idioms have really deep meaning that's deeper than the surface level."
"If you use idioms correctly, yes, but idioms are difficult in any language, and I would want you to be a hundred percent sure that you are using the idiom correctly."
"Sometimes you've got to risk it for a biscuit."
"So you're saying if the boot fits, wear it?" "Sure," she said.
"There's no point in kicking a dead horse."
"Many of the words and idioms we use originated from denigrating animals, but that doesn't mean we still use them that way or think of them that way."
"All the proof is in the pudding, so to speak."
"That's a marriage made in heaven, or a match made in heaven, or however that saying goes."
"That was the final straw that broke the camel's back."
"It's killing two birds with one stone."
"See, easy as pie. Oh, I mean, piece of cake."
"You're as right as rain, which I've never understood."
"Where there's a whale, there's a way."
"Kick the bucket means to die, to pass away."
"To pull somebody's leg means to joke with them or to tell a lie in a joking way."
"Hit the road is a casual expression which means to leave, to depart, to go somewhere."
"The elephant in the room is a big topic that everybody knows about but nobody is talking about."
"It's no use crying over spilled milk now."
"The bee's knees, it's thought to have originated in the U.S. actually."
"English is just as hard because we have a piece of cake, a slice of pizza, a block of cheese."
"It was like killing two birds with one stone."
"Like everything else, the devil is in the details."
"Well, why don't we kill two birds with one stone."
"A dog's bark is worse than his bite."
"The influence of the King James Bible is so great that the list of idioms from it that have slipped into everyday speech is practically endless."
"He really takes the cake. Where do you take a cake, to the movies?"
"That's a good point, I never even knew what the phrase 'sticky wicket' meant."
"It started raining cats and dogs."
"Ever wondered why we say tick-tock and not tock-tick, or ding-dong not dong-ding?"
"I'm sorry, what's that? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
"You're going to bring a knife to a gunfight?"
"Close only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes."