If you are from a different country or culture you will not know American sayings, but isn't it interesting that every culture has there own sayings or 'idioms' as it's used in it's proper context. Here are a few to begin with. The rest can be found at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
Have fun looking at all the different expressions and sayings.
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- A bit much
- If something is excessive or annoying, it is a bit much.
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
- This means that processes, organisations, etc, are vulnerable because the weakest person or part can always damage or break them.
- A day late and a dollar short
- (USA) If something is a day late and a dollar short, it is too little, too late.
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- This idiom means that people who aren't careful with their money spend it quickly. 'A fool and his money are easily parted' is an alternative form of the idiom.
- A fool at 40 is a fool forever
- If someone hasn't matured by the time they reach forty, they never will.
- A hitch in your giddy-up
- If you have a hitch in your giddy-up, you're not feeling well. ('A hitch in your gittie-up' is also used.)
- A lick and a promise
- If you give something a lick and a promise, you do it hurriedly, most often incompletely, intending to return to it later.
- A little bird told me
- If someone doesn't want to say where they got some information from, they can say that a little bird told them.
Big nose
- If someone has a big nose, it means they are excessively interested in everyone else's business.
- Big picture
- The big picture of something is the overall perspective or objective, not the fine detail.
- Big time
- This can be used to with the meaning 'very much'- if you like something big time, you like it a lot.
- Bigger fish to fry
- If you aren't interested in something because it isn't important to you and there are more important things for you to do, you have bigger fish to fry.
- Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' is a proverb meaning that it is better to have something that is certain than take a risk to get more, where you might lose everything.
- Bird's eye view
- If you have a bird's eye view of something, you can see it perfectly clearly.
- Bird-brain
- Someone who has a bird-brain, or is bird-brained, is stupid.
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