英语成语故事

作品目录

l.Add insult to injury

2.A dog in the manger

3. Apple of one' s eye

4.Apple of Sodom

5.(An) apple polisher

6.Ask for the moon

7.Asleep at the switch

8.Ass in lion's skin

9. At the drop of a hat

10.Ax to grind

11. Back-at driver

l2.Baker's dozen

13.Before one can say Jack Robinson

14.bell the cat

15. Be someone' s cup of tea

16.Bite the bullet

17.Bring home the bacon

18.Bury/hide one's head in the sand

19.Bury the hatchet

20.Carry too much canvas

21.Cart before the hor

22.Cat get one' s tongue

23.Cold shoulder

24.Cool one' s heels

25.Couch potato

26.Cry aim

27.Dead as a door-nail

28.Dead duck

29.Dead soldier/dead man

30.Die in one s boots/die with one' s boots on

31 .Easy money

32.Eat crow

33.Eat humble pie

34.Egg-head

35.Egg on

36.Face the music

37.Fair-weather friend

38.Feather in one' s cap

39.Feather one s nest

40.Fight fire with fire

41.Fight like kilk'enny cats

42.Fine feathers make fine birds

43.Fingers were made before forks

44.Follow the no

45.Forget-me-not

46.Get into a mt

47.Get off on the wrong foot

48.Get out of bed on the wrong side

49.Get the sack

50.Get wind of

51.Give the shirt off one s back

52.Give the third degree

53.Go against the grain

54.Grea the wheels

55.Handwriting on the wall

56.Have a yen for

57.Have other fish to fry

58.In a circle

59.Ins and outs

60.In the wake of

61.1t' s a dog-eat-dog world

62.Keep up with the Jones

63.Kick the bucket

64.Kill the goo that laid the golden egg

65.Knock for six

66.Knock on wood

67.Lame duck

68.Lay one' s cards on the table

69.Let offsteam

70.Let sleeping dogs lie

71.like water off a duck' s back

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72.(the) lion's share

73.Look a gift hor in the mouth

74.Look like the cat that ate canary

75.Look to one' s laurels

76.Lump in one' s throat

77.Make a beeline for

78.Make bricks without straw

79.Make one s mark

80.Meet one's Waterloo

81.Mind one s p s and q s

82.Nail down

83. Nail one' s colours to the mast

84.Naked truth

85.Neck and neck

86.News

87.Nip in the bud

88.0ffthe cuff

89.0n the Q.T.

90.Paint onelf into a comer

91.Paint the lily

92.Paint the town red

93.Palm off

94.Pay through the no

95.Play into sb's hands

96.Pot call the kettle black

97.Pull one's weight

98.Pull strings

99.Pull up stakes

100.Push the boat out

101.Push the panic button

102.Put one' s shoulder to the wheel

103.Rough diamond

104.Run to earth

105.Sail under fal colours

106.Set one' s cap at sb.

107.Set the Thames on fire

108.Skeleton at the feast

109.Skeleton in the cupboard

101.Slap one s back

111.Square peg in a round hole

112.Steal one's thunder

113.Stump up

l14.Take for a ride

115.Take off one's hat to someone

116.The eleventh hour

117.The first one hundred days

118.The lion's share thom in the flesh

l19.Throw in the towel

120.Throw one' s hat into the ring

112.Trail one's coat

113.Tum the comer

114.Tum thumbs down

124.Under the cou

125.Under the hammer

126.Walk the plank

127.Wash one s hands of a thing

128.Wet blanket

129.While elephant

130.Zero hour