Popular Expressions and Idioms These are common expressions and idioms spoken in America and other English speaking countries. An idiom is an expression that means something different from the literal meanings of its individual words. Straight From the Horse’s Mouth The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back Leave It At That Down to Earth Do You Mind Eye-Opening Buy (What Someone Said) For Crying Out Loud Off the Top of One’s Head The Big Picture Set the Record Straight To Have Butterflies In Your Stomach To Be In the Doghouse Crybaby No Shit The Point It’s Not My First Rodeo Look What the Cat Dragged In Green Thumb It Is What It Is The Writing On the Wall Don’t Get Me Wrong The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree Bear In Mind Deal With It Off and On Break a Leg Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth What’s the Deal? Think Twice Throw in the Towel Mind-Boggling Nip (Something) In the Bud Squash the Beef Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater Knock Yourself Out On Fire Take (Something) With a Grain of Salt Cooler Heads Prevail Excuse My French Jump to Conclusions Hit Home Cut To the Chase You Snooze, You Lose Cliché Throw Someone Off Bark Up the Wrong Tree When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going Out Cold Fair and Square Stick In the Mud Doing “It” Kill Someone With Kindness Get Your Feet Wet Eat One’s Words Inside Out Dime a Dozen Steal One’s Thunder Tomato Tomahto In Over One’s Head Skeletons In the Closet Hush Up the Creek Without a Paddle Pull Your Head Out of Your Ass Eureka! Off the Hook Tin Foil Hat All the Rage No Way It’s On the Tip Of My Tongue Cut the Cheese Be an Open Book Catch – 22 Let the Cat Out of the Bag Living In a Bubble Be On the Same Page Shit Hits the Fan Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You Grass Is Greener On the Other Side of the Fence Balls to the Wall Pain In the Ass Behold Guilty Pleasure Freak Accident Like Looking For a Needle In a Haystack Close, But No Cigar For Christ’s/ God’s Sake On the Fence It Takes Two To Tango Elephant In the Room Bury the Hatchet Toot My / Your Own Horn Going Cold Turkey Does a Bear Shit In the Woods? Saying “Period” At the End of a Sentence Take On the World Apples And Oranges Canary In a Coalmine Sly Dog Is the Pope Catholic In a Nutshell Push the Envelope Think Outside of the Box Long Story Short Out of the Blue Dying Cause Rat Race Downfall I’m Pooped I’m Starving Knock On Wood My Bad Duh Stick Your Neck Out Gee To Go Off The Deep End Whatever Meanwhile Vice Versa Diva For Real No Sweat Speak Of The Devil Time Is Running Out Underdog Bandwagon Corny