英语成语故事

     目录
   l.Add insult to injury
   2.A dog in the manger
   3. Apple of one' s eye
   4.Apple of Sodom
   5.(An) apple polisher
   6.Ask for the moon
   7.Asleep at the switch
   8.Ass in lion's skin
   9. At the drop of a hat
   10.Ax to grind
   11. Back-seat driver
   l2.Baker's dozen
   13.Before one can say Jack Robinson
   14.bell the cat
   15. Be someone' s cup of tea
   16.Bite the bullet
   17.Bring home the bacon
   18.Bury/hide one's head in the sand
   19.Bury the hatchet
   20.Carry too much canvas
   21.Cart before the horse
   22.Cat get one' s tongue
   23.Cold shoulder
   24.Cool one' s heels
   25.Couch potato
   26.Cry aim
   27.Dead as a door-nail
   28.Dead duck
   29.Dead soldier/dead man
   30.Die in one s boots/die with one' s boots on
   31 .Easy money
   32.Eat crow
   33.Eat humble pie
   34.Egg-head
   35.Egg on
   36.Face the music
   37.Fair-weather friend
   38.Feather in one' s cap
   39.Feather one s nest
   40.Fight fire with fire
   41.Fight like kilk'enny cats
   42.Fine feathers make fine birds
   43.Fingers were made before forks
   44.Follow the nose
   45.Forget-me-not
   46.Get into a mt
   47.Get off on the wrong foot
   48.Get out of bed on the wrong side
   49.Get the sack
   50.Get wind of
   51.Give the shirt off one s back
   52.Give the third degree
   53.Go against the grain
   54.Grease the wheels
   55.Handwriting on the wall
   56.Have a yen for
   57.Have other fish to fry
   58.In a circle
   59.Ins and outs
   60.In the wake of
   61.1t' s a dog-eat-dog world
   62.Keep up with the Joneses
   63.Kick the bucket
   64.Kill the goose that laid the golden egg
   65.Knock for six
   66.Knock on wood
   67.Lame duck
   68.Lay one' s cards on the table
   69.Let offsteam
   70.Let sleeping dogs lie
   71.like water off a duck' s back
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   72.(the) lion's share
   73.Look a gift horse in the mouth
   74.Look like the cat that ate canary
   75.Look to one' s laurels
   76.Lump in one' s throat
   77.Make a beeline for
   78.Make bricks without straw
   79.Make one s mark
   80.Meet one's Waterloo
   81.Mind one s p s and q s
   82.Nail down
   83. Nail one' s colours to the mast
   84.Naked truth
   85.Neck and neck
   86.News
   87.Nip in the bud
   88.0ffthe cuff
   89.0n the Q.T.
   90.Paint oneself into a comer
   91.Paint the lily
   92.Paint the town red
   93.Palm off
   94.Pay through the nose
   95.Play into sb's hands
   96.Pot call the kettle black
   97.Pull one's weight
   98.Pull strings
   99.Pull up stakes
   100.Push the boat out
   101.Push the panic button
   102.Put one' s shoulder to the wheel
   103.Rough diamond
   104.Run to earth
   105.Sail under false colours
   106.Set one' s cap at sb.
   107.Set the Thames on fire
   108.Skeleton at the feast
   109.Skeleton in the cupboard
   101.Slap one s back
   111.Square peg in a round hole
   112.Steal one's thunder
   113.Stump up
   l14.Take for a ride
   115.Take off one's hat to someone
   116.The eleventh hour
   117.The first one hundred days
   118.The lion's share thom in the flesh
   l19.Throw in the towel
   120.Throw one' s hat into the ring
   112.Trail one's coat
   113.Tum the comer
   114.Tum thumbs down
   124.Under the cou
   125.Under the hammer
   126.Walk the plank
   127.Wash one s hands of a thing
   128.Wet blanket
   129.While elephant
   130.Zero hour