Favorite Idioms ...

[vja4Him]

What are some of your favorite idioms? One of mine is:

"Old hat."

Meaning simply that something is familiar.

 

[¶ºÂæ]

"Blind as a Bat"
Simply meaning can't see.

 

[lukas.errych]

haha.... i dont know any idioms in english, because I from asia...

 

[BuzWeaver]

haha.... i dont know any idioms in english, because I from asia...

LOL.

 

[dunjunn]

5 knocks.
12, right to left.

 

[Lindley]

keep up with the joneses....the weirdest ever

 

[BuzWeaver]

keep up with the joneses....the weirdest ever

From The Word Origin Calendar:

Keeping up with the Joneses - In the 1840's, wealthy New Yorkers began to move from Manhattan and build great mansions along the Hudson River north of the city. One of the greatest belonged to Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, an heiress to the fortune of John Jacob Astor and aunt of novelist Edith Wharton.

She spent huge sums of money to maintain her mansion and entertain friends, and her neighbors attempted to match her spending--whence the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses."