Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

• a red letter day
• Black and blue
• Green thumb
• A golden heart
• Feeling blue
• Blue blood
• Born with a silver spoon

Intelligence Related Idioms

• At one's wit's / wits' end
  • Meaning: to get puzzled
• To take someone to task
  • Meaning: to scold someone
• To face the music
  • Meaning: to bear the consequences
• To blow one's own trumpet
  • Meaning: to praise one's own self
• To run someone down
  • Meaning: to disparage someone/criticise
• At snail's pace
  • Meaning: very slowly
• To turn a deaf ear
  • Meaning: to be indifferent
• To take to one's heels
  • Meaning: to run off
• To have something up one's sleeves
  • Meaning: having a secret plan