What are 10 examples of idiomatic expressions with sentences?

• Quitting cold turkey. To quit cold turkey is to stop a bad habit immediately.
• Spill the beans. If someone spills the beans, they revealed a secret.
• In a pickle.
• Hit the nail on the head.
• Cost an arm and a leg.
• Going out on a limb.
• Jump the gun.
• Driving me nuts.

What is a good idiom for happy?

• Having a whale of a time. “Dear Mum and Dad, We are having a whale of a time in San Francisco.
• On Cloud Nine.
• Tickled Pink (delighted)
• On Top of the World.
• Happy as a Clam.
• Buzzing.
• Over the Moon.
• In Seventh Heaven.

List of Common American Idioms

• Under the weather: someone is sick, ill, or doesn’t feel well for some reason.
• It’s not rocket science: something is not complicated or to not make things more complicated than they need to be.
• Hang in there: to keep going, keep moving forward, and to not give up with things get difficult.

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Let’s take a look at some of our global neighbors’ idioms:

• In Armenian, “ stop ironing my board ” means stop bothering me.
• In French, “ when chickens have teeth ” means something’s never going to happen.
• Also in French, “ I have other cats to whip ” means I have other things to do.
• In German, “ to tie a bear to someone ” means you’ve tricked them.

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