pick

stone

See:

CAST THE FIRST STONE,

HEART OF STONE,

KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE,

LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED,

PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES,

ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS.

No categories:

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

'stone' on video

Subscribe to: American Idioms

English Slang

✉

Get site updates @:

See as well

rolling stone gathers no moss

[rolling stone gathers no moss] A person who changes jobs or where he lives often will not be able to save money or things of his own. - A proverb. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

kill two birds with one stone

[kill two birds with one stone] {v. phr.} To succeed in doing two things by only one action; get two results from one effort. * /Mother stopped at the supermarket […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

cast the first stone

[cast the first stone] {v. phr.}, {literary} To be the first to blame someone, lead accusers against a wrongdoer. * /Jesus said that a person who was without sin could […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

leave no stone unturned

[leave no stone unturned] {v. phr.} To try in every way; miss no chance; do everything possible. - Usually used in the negative. * /The police will leave no stone […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

Recent updates

George Jean Nathan

Testament of a Critic, p. 179 There is no such thing as a dirty theme. There are only dirty writers.

Quizzes on idioms starting with C

in luck

[in luck] {adj. phr.} Being lucky; having good luck; finding something good by chance. * /Bill was in luck when he found the […]

sum up

[sum up] {v.} To put something into a few words; shorten into a brief summary; summarize. * /The teacher summed up the […]

Chinese proverb

One dog barks at something; the rest bark at him.

Quizzes on idioms starting with G

ROFLMAOPIMP

[ROFLMAOPIMP] "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off peeing in my pants"

hang-up

[hang-up] {n.}, {informal} (stress on "hang") 1. A delay in some process. * /The mail has been late for several days; there […]