15 Funny English Idioms (make people laugh!) (+ Free PDF & Quiz)

In Poland we say, to kick the calendar

A frog in a coconut shell, Eat air, Hot liver, Fruit liver, (Derived from Malay Language.)

In French, we have "avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre" which literally means "to have eyes bigger than belly" = to be unable to finish what you took to eat ;)

In A Christmas Carol, Dickens expostulate Saint the questionable wisdom of dead as a doornail. He prefers, "dead as a coffin nail".

Can we take those in writing

Thank you teacher

Dislike that take a bill pill one .

Do a runner! I would guess that meant ahoy who waited to long to go to the restroom so he did a runner avoid setting his pants. Now being a senior ale, this is a daily challenge.

I have always lived in the USA . Most of these expressions were used and commonly understood by us as kids, teens, and the. As adults.

Du bist immer süß

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Maybe to take a buffalo to the horns it means as you maybe know to beging do something seriously

Maybe its means thay you can do all except something?

Riddle me this is one of my favs

Lucy , you’re an abundance of joy and happiness…keep showing us all with your good nature and detailed English lessons

"Ridhan agyan rabab wajaende warhiya thi waya"

"It took a lot of years in playing piano toward sheeps"

EVERYTHING BUT A KITCHEN SINK = I THINK THIS IDIOM MEANS THAT IT IS EVERYTHING, BUT NOT EXACTLY WHAT SOMEONE WANTS

Customer service in Paris is nothing to write home about!

Another Swedish idiom:
Du kan inte lugga en flintskallig

Hello Lucy and community😊

Thank you my dear teacher your so funny teaching today so I love the lesson ❤️

Let's assume one goes on holiday. Instead of taking only the necessary stuff, they pack everything & if they could, they would have taken a kitchen sink too!

The kitchen thinks.....i,ll eat everyrhing

Could you also say: " the best thing since choclate milkshake "

A fun way to teach!

For the first one "a storm in a teacup", we have something similar in French : "Une tempête dans un verre d'eau" (a storm in a glass of water)... with the exact same meaning ;)

I love the Snowball joke ☺👍🏻

I think it’s like

I remembered everything but the kitchen sink

Not really sure though 😂

Edit: lol I’m not even close 🤣🤣🤣

Snowballs😆😆😆😆

To do a runner translated into American English is to : Dine and Dash

Great work and great teacher

Pucci

How about keeping a dog but burke yourself

No it was when Richard Harris kicked buckets I can't remember the name film he beat shit out donkey and through basterd over cliff

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Love ur videos as always

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It's easy to beat thornapples with other man's dick (Serbian proberb)

In Viet Nam, we have an idiom called " đầu voi đuôi chuột", to translate directly it means the head of an elephant but the tail ò a mouse. It means the good start but the ending is bad.

in telugu (India)they say (ramayanam antha vini ramudiki sitha emi avuthunthundhi ani adigadata) meaning leasting the whole story they ask if the starting or basic point of the story

Love ur vd can u make vd on science topics ....big fan

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Lucy ...mam...i like ur presenting short videos on learn English . Very attractive n interesting .. Tt hnk u ..

Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch for idioms about dying.

In Portuguese when we say "I kicked the bucket" it actually means that we have given up on something (mainly talking about diets)

actually this is so amazing video.