Idioms

Los idioms son expresiones o frases hechas en inglés (o en francés), muchos adoptan la forma de los refranes en español, con los que los angloparlantes muestran una realidad, realizan comparaciones, describen a alguien, etc.

Si quieres conocerlos, sólo tienes que elegir uno y descubrir su significado, origen y, en su caso, equivalente en español. ¡Que los disfrutes!

1. To go bananas
2. Idle hands are the Devil's tools
3. To be a hard nut to crack
4. En parlant du loup on voit la queue
5. All's fair in love and war
6. The lights are on, but nobody's home
7. To have Van Gogh's ear for music
8. To jump on the bandwagon
9. To go to Davy Jones' locker
10. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
11. To get the boot
12. To work for peanuts
13. Love will find a way
14. To pull a rabbit out of a hat
15. Parler français comme une vache espagnole
16. Burning the candle at both sides
17. To be in deep water
18. That ship has sailed
19. Not to be a spring chicken
20. To have a skeleton in the closet
21. To be a Doubting Thomas
22. To be dead in the water
23. To be as stubborn as a mule
24. To tie the knot
25. To be a barrel of laughs
26. To have a lemon in one's hand
27. A swallow doesn't make summer
28. To have bigger fish to fry
29. To have a frog in one's throat
30. To separate sheep from goats
31. To bring home the bacon
32. To have one's eyes bigger than the belly
33. To be whiter than white
34. L'avenir appartien à ceux qui se lève tôt
35. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
36. It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back
37. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
38. Rome wasn't built in one day
39. To be flat broke
40. To wear your heart on your sleeve
41. To go Dutch
42. Smooth seas don't make good sailor
43. To be as mad as a hatter
44. Too many cooks spoil the brooth
45. Se faire sa place au soleil
46. To let sleeping dogs lie
47. To be six feet under
48. Vider le sac
49. I may have been born at night, but not last night
50. To save for a rainy day
51. To be on cloud nine
52. To take the bull by the horns
53. To be a dead man walking
54. Gloves are off
55. Above and beyond the call of duty
56. To see light at the end of the tunnel
57. To add fuel to the flames
58. To paint the town red
59. To live in an ivory tower
60. To adopt an ostrich strategy
61. To run out of steam
62. To be as different as chalk and cheese
63. Too many chiefs, not enough indians
64. Châteaux en Espagne
65. To talk turkey
66. Elvis has left the building
67. To be as nutty as a fruitcake
68. To extend the olive branch
69. To look at the other side of the grass
70. To turn the blind eye
71. To meet one's maker
72. To be a turkey
73. Cold turkey
74. To be like a cat on hot bricks
75. To be knee-high to a grasshopper
76. The elephant in the room
77. To dig one's grave
78. To burn your bridges
79. To cross the Rubicon
80. To hold all the aces
81. To leave someone holding the baby
82. To make one's blood boil
83. To keep body and soul together
84. To be made of money
85. To put one's shoe in one's mouth
86. To spend a penny
87. To let the chips fall where they may
88. To promise the moon
89. To find a needle in a haystack
90. As the actress said to the bishop
91. Bob's your uncle!
92. To call a spade a spade
93. Change of heart
94. To have a finger in every pie
95. As clear as a bell
96. Second banana
97. Baptism of fire
98. The back of beyond
99. The calm before the storm
100. To put the cart before the horse
101. To bring a knife to a gunfight
102. To be worth one's weight in gold
103. The streets are paved with gold
104. Many moons ago
105. To buy a lemon
106. To sell ice to skimos
107. To have sticky fingers
108. To have the Midas touch
109. To let the dust settle
110. To blow off steam
111. To look like a million dollars
112. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
113. To chase rainbows
114. At the drop of a hat
115. It takes two to tango
116. Adam's ale
117. Poker face
118. To have eyes in the back of one's head
119. To critize the paint job on the Titanic
120. When the rubber meets the road
121. As American as apple pie
122. To be a fly on the wall