Idiom America

Smoke Idioms: Smoke and mirrors; Put that in your pipe and smoke it; Blowing smoke; Smoking gun; Where there's smoke there's fire; Get smoked; Pipe-dream 05.02.2023 17:24 ↓

Blowing smoke up someone's ass; Smoke the peace pipe; Smokescreen; Holy smoke(s); What have you been smoking

Duck Idioms: Lucky duck; Sitting duck; Dead duck; Lame duck; Duck and cover; Have one's ducks in a row; Duck soup; Like a duck to water; Milkshake duck 26.01.2023 16:55 ↓

Since one was knee-high to a duck; Lovely weather for ducks; Like water off a duck's back; Duck face; If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, then it must be a duck.

Bird Idioms: Birds of a feather; Bird in the hand; A little bird told me; Sing like a bird; Boobird; Odd bird; Rare bird; Kill two birds with one stone 19.01.2023 17:27 ↓

Flip the bird; Tough old bird; Yardbird; Snowbird; Anapodoton; Black swan

Blade Idioms: Sword of Damocles; Hang by a thread; Fall on one's sword; Beat swords into plowshares; Saber-rattling; Bury the hatchet; Hatchet job; 08.01.2023 15:48 ↓

Take up the hatchet; Hatchet man; Hatched-faced; Scalpel, not an ax

White idioms: White elephant; white knight; white lies; white knuckle; white hat hacker 18.12.2022 15:08 ↓

White as a ghost; white as a sheet; White Christmas

Cutting Idioms, part 2: Cut it out; Cut out for; Work cut out for; Cut from whole cloth; Cut a deal; Cut against the grain; Cut the cord; Cut to ribbons; Cut corners;Cut both ways; Cut it with a knife 08.12.2022 15:19 ↓

Cut a figure; Knock it off; Cut a check; Double-edged sword

Idioms from US Presidents, Part 5 01.12.2022 20:57 ↓

Rock the boat; bully pulpit; mollycoddle; muckraking; pull yourself up by the bootstraps; lunatic fringe; loose cannon

Cutting Idioms: Cut one's teeth; Cut of someone's jib; Cut the mustard; Cut a rug; Cut to the quick; Cut and run; Fish or cut bait; Cut a wide swathe 17.11.2022 15:33 ↓

Cut off your nose to spite your face; Unkindest cut; Cut to the bone; Cut and dried

Gem Idioms: Hidden Gem; Diamond in the rough; The world is your oyster; Clutch one's pearls 10.11.2022 17:00 ↓

A cut above; Casting pearls before swine; Pearl of great price; Pearls of wisdom; Idaho the gem state

Bell Idioms: Ring in the New Year; Death knell; For whom the bell tolls; Ring a bell; Be there with bells on; 30.12.2021 17:24 ↓

You can't unring a bell; Ring somebody's bell; Saved by the bell; Wear the cap and bells; All the bells and whistles; Sound as a bell.

Silver idioms: Silver lining; Silver-tongued; Silver bullet; Magic bullet; 30 pieces of silver; Silver screen 17.12.2021 15:38 ↓

Sell the family silver; Sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage; Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth; Serve something on a silver platter.

Idioms from US Presidents, Part 4 10.12.2021 19:01 ↓

Spoils system; cronyism; strange bedfellows; pork-barrel; To the victor go the spoils; Buffalo x 8; Kid gloves.

Thanksgiving Idioms: Talk turkey; Go cold turkey; Gobble up; To be stuffed, etc. 24.11.2021 18:00 ↓

Gobble, gobble; Eat like a bird; Stuffed shirt; The rest is gravy; Ride the gravy train; As American as apple pie.

Goose idioms: Wild goose chase; One's goose is cooked; Goosebumps, etc. 23.10.2021 22:03 ↓

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs; Golden goose; Goose up; Goose-stepping; Loose as a goose, loosey goosey; Silly goose; Take a gander

Idioms from US Presidents, Part 3 15.10.2021 17:32 ↓

Two-faced; Contronyms; Sugar-coated; Demonyms; Michigander; House divided, Illeism; Come in handy; Corporation; Do the math.

Idioms from US Presidents, Part 2 08.10.2021 16:43 ↓

Keep the ball rolling; Booze; Peculation, defalcation, and condign; 54-50 or fight!; Bed of roses; Twiddling one's thumbs; Dark horse; Confirmed bachelor.

Idioms from US Presidents, Part 1 30.09.2021 21:17 ↓

Ok!! Washington, Jefferson, administration, nip it in the bud, squatters, gag rule, worth one's salt etc.

Cat idioms, Part III: Raining cats and dogs 25.09.2021 15:55 ↓

Cat on a hot tin roof; Pussyfooting; Cat burglar; Bell the cat; Scaredy cat; Copycat; Catnap; Dead cat bounce; Fat cat 

Cat idioms, Part II: There's more than one way to skin a cat 20.09.2021 18:27 ↓

Curiosity killed the cat; A cat's nine lives; Let the cat out of the bag; Not enough room to swing a cat, etc.

Cat idioms, Part I: Catcalls, hepcats, cats that swallowed the canary, etc. 14.09.2021 18:50 ↓

The cat's pajamas, looked what the cat dragged in, caterwauling, cathouses and more.

"Red" idioms: red herring; caught red-handed; red-blooded; red meat; red-baiting; red tape and more. 08.09.2021 24:43 ↓

In addition to the above, looks at idioms like better dead than red, red alert, raise a red flag, see red, not one red cent, red-letter days, roll out the red carpet, and paint the town red.

To tide one over, and other "tide" idioms 05.09.2021 17:05 ↓

Takes a look at idioms involving "tide," as well at the tide that shows up in words like yuletide and tidings. Also visits the topics of tidal power and the moon's wobble.

Fit to be tied and other "tying" idioms 31.08.2021 17:24 ↓

Looks at idioms involving the act of "tying," as well as "cat got your tongue," typography, and knots. 

Pulling out all the stops 30.08.2021 14:57 ↓

This second episode looks at idioms such as "pulling out all the stops," "bats in the belfry," "dead ringer," and more, and features a Josh Ritter lyric, pipe organs, and coffins.

Full of vim and vigor 30.08.2021 21:00 ↓

Looks at idioms like "full of vim and vigor," "long in the tooth," and "playing hooky," as well as digging a hole for a trampoline.