Designing Your Character & Other Handy Things

Idioms and their meanings!

To become silent; to stop talking, to shut up.

"Cold shoulder"

To display aloofness and disdain.

"Couch potato"

A lazy person.

"Cut a rug"

To dance

"Cut the cheese"

To pass gas, fart, break wind

"Cut the mustard"

To succeed; to come up to expectations.

"Don't have a cow "

Don't overreact.

"Drop a dime "

Make a telephone call; to be an informant.

"Fit as a fiddle"

In good physical health.

"For a song"

Almost free. Very cheap.

"From A to Z"

Covering a complete range; comprehensively.

"From scratch / to make from scratch"

Make from original ingredients; start from the beginning with no prior preparation

"Get bent out of shape"

To take offense; to get worked up, aggravated, or annoyed

"Have a blast" 

To have a good time or to enjoy oneself.

"Have eyes in the back of one's head"

Someone can perceive things and events that are outside of their field of vision.

"Hit the road "

To leave.

"Hit the sack "/sheets/hay

To go to bed.

"Let the cat out of the bag "

To reveal a secret.

"Kick the bucket"

Euphemism for dying or death.

"Off one's trolley" or

"Off one's rocker"         

Crazy, demented, out of one's mind, in a confused or befuddled state of mind, senile.

"Off the hook"

To escape a situation of responsibility, obligation, or (less frequently) danger.

"Pop one's clogs" (UK)

Euphemism for dying or death.

"Piece of cake "

A job, task or other activity that is pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple.

"Pull somebody's leg"

To tease or to joke by telling a lie.

"Pushing up daisies"

Euphemism for dying or death.

"Put the cat among the pigeons"

To create a disturbance and cause trouble.

"Right as rain" 

Needed, appropriate, essential, or hoped-for and has come to mean perfect, well, absolutely right.

"Screw the pooch"

To screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.

"Shoot the breeze"

To chat idly or generally waste time talking.

"Sleep with the fishes"

Euphemism for dying or death.

"Spill the beans"

Reveal someone's secret.

"Split the whistle"

To arrive just on time.

"Take the biscuit (UK)"

To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.

"Take the cake (US)"

To be especially good or outstanding.

"Through thick and thin"

Both good and bad times.

"Thumb one's nose"

To express scorn or to disregard.

"Trip the light fantastic"

To dance

"Under the weather"

Feel sick or poorly

"You can say that again"

That is very true; expression of wholehearted agreement