Learning English — Idioms and Proverbs

A quick idioms and proverbs introductory video-lesson

What is an idiom? How should I use idioms? The following example idioms have been discussed:

- pot calling the cattle black;

- don't beat about the bush;

- all that glitters is not gold;

- easier said than done;

- waste not want not;

- the more you save the more you gain;

- look before you leap;

- don't judje the book by the cover;

- once bitten twice shy;

- back to the drawing board;

- his bark is worse than his bite;

- don't count your chicken before they have hatched;

- laugh all the way to the bank;

- through the baby out with the bathwater;

- there are no flies on smb.;

- a penny saved is a panny gained