Recursos para estudiantes de inglés de todos los niveles, profesores y traductores. Para aprender o mejorar tu inglés en forma divertida.
That's curious! - Curiosidades del inglés
THE STORY BEHIND THE IDIOMS
Descubre el verdadero origen de las expresiones idiomáticas más utilizadas en inglés!
- A cock and bull story
- A dark horse
- A white elephant
As easy as pie - As mad as a March hare
- As old as the hills
- At sixes and sevens
- Bag and baggage
- Baker's dozen
- Black Friday
- Boxing Day
- Can't hold a candle
- Close, but no cigar
- Cloud nine
- Crocodile tears
- Dressed to the nines
- Fast asleep
- High and dry
- In the limelight
- It's raining cats and dogs
- Like a red rag to a bull
- Never look a gift-horse in the mouth
- Once in a blue moon
- Over the moon
Red-letter day- Red tape
- Shopping days until Christmas
- Straight from the horse's mouth
- Tell it to the marines
- The black sheep
- To bark up the wrong tree
- To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- To be long in the tooth
- To be on the pig's back
- To break the ice
- To bury the hatchet
- To catch someone red-handed
- To cut the mustard
- To cut to the chase
- To fly off the handle
- To get/jump on the bandwagon
To have bats in the belfry- To have seen the elephant
- To have seen the lions
- To have somebody over a barrel
- To jump the gun
- To keep up with the Joneses
- To learn the ropes
- To let off steam
- To let the cat out of the bag
- To play ducks and drakes
- To push the envelope
- To push the boat out
- To run out of steam
- To take something with a grain/pinch of salt
- To talk/speak of the devil
- To throw in the towel
- To upset the apple cart
- To win hands down
- Top drawer
- Vis-à-vis
Ver también: The Story behind the Words
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