Idiomatic Expressions

Break a leg.

• Broken leg

• Goodluck!

• Break someone's leg

• Fractured leg

It's raining cats and dogs.

• Raining very hard

• Raining on the cats and dogs

• Cats and dogs falling from the sky

• The sky is sad.

"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"

• The cat stole someone's tongue.

• The cat bites the person's tongue.

• The person can't talk or speak.

• The person got the cat's tongue.

Anne blacks out whenever she sees blood.

• She paints using black color.

• She covers her face with something black.

• She hates blood.

• She faints.

Hold your horses!

• Hold tightly your horses.

• Relax. Don't rush into anything.

• Hug your horses.

• Don't lose your horses.

"Who let the cat out of the bag?"

• Who let the cat escape the house?

• Who let the cat go outside?

• Who told him the secret?

• What's the cat's biggest secret?

Old man Joe is as blind as a bat.

• Bats can't see.

• Mr. Joe has bats in his room.

• Bats love Mr. Joe.

• Mr. Joe can't see very well.

Mark is upset because he was cut from the team.

• He got a cut while playing the game.

• He got kicked off the team.

• He cut his team during the game.

• He is upset with his team.

I've been feeling under the weather lately.

• I've been sick lately.

• I am under the sunny weather.

• I like to watch the weather channel.

• I like all the weather.

They're charging an arm and a leg for those dance tickets.

• There were arms and legs flying at the dance.

• You have to pay one arm and one leg for the tickets.

• The dance tickets were really expensive.

• The dance tickets have arms and legs.