Most of the idioms are used in daily life, so we get their meaning during our natural phase of learning. It is not easy to learn all idioms and memorize their meaning in one go. So what is the best way to use idioms in English language? You can’t attain perfection in using idioms overnight. To a beginner English learner, idioms can be quite confusing to remember and memorize. To quote a simple example of an idiom, when we say that, ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’, it doesn’t mean that cats and dogs are actually falling from the sky! The idiom has a different meaning, that is, it is raining heavily. The sentence might have altogether different connotations. So idioms are groups of words, phrases whose meaning can’t be deduced apparently from the words used in the sentence. Idioms have become such an integral part of linguistics that avoiding their usage in English language would only render this funny language dry, dull and pedantic. All idioms have an interesting story behind their origins. Knowing about the history of idiomatic expressions is very interesting, as most of the idioms have been picked from human experiences. Many English language experts presume idioms to be a type of figure of speech or a metaphor, as they convey the same effect, in certain circumstances. Idioms are phrases, expressions that are used very commonly in a language to express something whose meaning can’t be taken literally. In this article, we will restrict out discussion only about English idioms and phrases, with their meaning and usage. That is quite understandable from the fact that there are nearly 25,000 phrases in English language that are deemed to be idioms! In almost all languages, there are hundreds of thousands of idioms.

Many of us use idioms very often in our daily conversations, even without being aware of it. Idioms make English language funny, vibrant and enriching to learn.

Used idioms in swahili