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An idiom (Latin: idioma, "special property", f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, "special feature, special phrasing", f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Idioms

 * Achilles' heel
 * All singing, all dancing
 * Apples and oranges
 * As easy as pie
 * As the crow flies
 * Backseat driver
 * Barking up the wrong tree
 * Belling the cat
 * Better than a sharp stick in the eye
 * Between Scylla and Charybdis
 * Between the devil and the deep blue sea
 * Black sheep
 * Blood, toil, tears and sweat
 * Digging yourself deeper
 * Don't shoot the messenger
 * Every day above ground is a good day
 * Frog strangler
 * Give two shits
 * Slap yo mamma
 * Someone walked over my grave
 * The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
 * The Shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
 * Tongue in cheek

Languages

 * Italian

Idiom Resources

 * Idiom at Wikipedia

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