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database is a comprehensive collection of all the American idioms and slang available.
American Idioms are many and varied. We hope you enjoy our collection. We are adding more all the time.
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pay one's own way
What does pay one's own way mean? | to pay the costs for something by oneself | The young man was forced to pay his own way during college.
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pay one's own way
What does pay one's own way mean? | to pay the costs for something yourself | The young girl paid her own way through college.
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Some Random Idioms
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far out
What does "far out" mean? | to be strange |
The man's sense of humor was far out and nobody understood him.
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small potatoes
What does "small potatoes" mean? | something that is not very big or important compared with other things or people |
The amount of money for the stadium is small potatoes compared to the total cost of the Olympics.
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hyper
What does "hyper" mean? | person who is easily or frequently very excited or active |
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get one's sea legs
What does "get one's sea legs" mean? | to become accustomed to something (like you would become accustomed to the movement of a ship) | After we got our sea legs we were able to get up and walk around the boat.
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all in a day's work
What does "all in a day's work" mean? | to be part of what is expected | It was all in a day's work when the firefighters rescued the cat.
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New man
What does "New man" mean? | (UK) A New man is a man who believes in complete equality of the sexes and shares domestic work equally. |
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dog in the manger
What does "dog in the manger" mean? | someone who prevents others from doing what they themselves do not want to do (in Aesop's Fables a dog that cannot eat hay lays in the hayrack and prevents the other animals from eating the hay) |
My friend always acts like a dog in the manger and often tries to prevent us from enjoying ourselves.
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