| List of Idioms beginning with D
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| Drive a wedge between | to break relationship between the two
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| Dances to the tune | to always do what someone tells you to do
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| Dressed up to the nines | wearing fancy clothes
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| Dragging its feet | delaying in decision, not showing enthusiasm |
| Davey Jones' locker | Davey Jones' locker is the bottom of the sea or resting place of drowned sailors. ('Davy Jones' locker' is an alternative spelling.)
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| Dancing on someone's grave | If you will dance on someone's grave, you will outlive orOutlast them and will celebrate their demise |
| Dog in the manger | If someone acts like a dog in the manger, they don't want other people to have or enjoy things that are useless to them
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| Don't cry over spilt milk | When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, 'Don't cry over spilt milk'
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| Don't wash your dirty laundry in public | People, especially couples, who argue in front of others or involve others in their personal problems and crises, are said to be washing their dirty laundry in public; making public things that are best left private.
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| Donkey work | Donkey work is any hard, boring work or task.
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| Don't throw bricks when you live in a glass house | Don't call others out on actions that you, yourself do. Don't be a hypocrite.TOP
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| List of Idioms beginning with E
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| Entering the 80th orbit | celebrating the 80th birthday
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| Eleventh hour decision | decision that is made at the last possible minute
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| End in smoke | to bear no result
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| Earth shattering | not at all surprising
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| Eat humble pie | to apologize humbly |
| Elephant in the room | An elephant in the room is a problem that everyone knows very well but no one talks about because it is taboo, embarrassing, etc.
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| Egg on your face | If someone has egg on their face; they are made to look foolish or embarrassed |
| Eye for an eye | This is an expression for retributive justice, where the punishment equals the crime.
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| Eyes are bigger than one's stomach | If someone's eyes are bigger than their stomach, they are greedy and take on more than they can consume or manage.TOP
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| List of Idioms beginning with F
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| From cradle to grave | during the whole span of your life. |
| Face the music | to accept punishment for something you have done. |
| Feel the pinch | to have problems with money. |
| Fall on your own sword | to be cheated by someone you trust.
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| Feather in one's cap | something that you achieve and proud of.
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| Firing on all cylinders | work every possible way to succeed.
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| French leave | absent without permission, to take French leave is to leave a gathering without saying goodbye or without permission. |
| Fall on our feet | If you fall on your feet, you succeed in doing something where there was a risk of failure.
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| Fall on your sword If | someone falls on their sword, they resign or accept the consequences of what they have done wrong.
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| Fingers and thumbs | If you are all fingers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands.
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| Finger in the pie | If you have a finger in the pie, you have an interest in something.
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| Flash in the pan | If something is a flash in the pan; it is very noticeable but doesn't last long, like most singers, who are very successful for a while, then forgotten.
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| Follow your nose | When giving directions, telling someone to follow their nose means that they should go straight ahead.
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| Fool'sparadise | A fool's paradise is a false sense of happiness or success
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| Foot in mouth This | is used to describe someone who has just said somethingEmbarrassing, inappropriate, wrong or stupid
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| For a song | If you buy or sell something for a song, it is very cheap
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| For donkey's years | If people have done something, usually without much if any change, for an awfully long time, they can be said to have done it for donkey's yearsTOP
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