12 Idioms you should learn.... Everyday Conversations 3

Hi guys,

The wait is over! Here is my 3rd session of idioms for you. Let's get started.

• Tie the knot: If you tie the knot, you get married.
  Usage: Bob and Jenny decide to tie the knot because they loved one another.
  
• The die is cast: We can say the die is cast after a decision has been made that will strongly affect a situation, and it can't be reversed.
  Usage: The die was cast when the band signed a contract with EMI. They were going to be famous.
  
• Show your true colors:You show your true colors if you show what you're really like, or you reveal your true character.
  Usage: The players showed their true colors when they came back from three goals down to win the match.
  
• Save the day: If you save the day, you do something to ensure success or to solve a serious problem.
  Usage: The character is the movie who saves the day is the hero.
  
• Pick somebody's brain: If you pick somebody's brain, you ask them for detailed information or ideas about something.
  Usage: The marketing manager picked my brains today and I think I gave him some good ideas.
  
• On the record: If you say something "on the record", you say it on the understanding that it will be a part of public record, and can be reported in the media.
  Usage: The newspaper's editor has to make sure all quotes are on the record before they are included.
  
• Middle-of-the-road: If something is middle-of-the-road, it'll appeal to the majority of people and not be radical or changing.
  Usage: A newspaper that takes a middle-of-the-road position in relation to politics tries to be balanced.
  
• Leave no stone unturned: If you leave no stone unturned, you look everywhere, in order to find something, or try everything in order to achieve something.
  Usage: Ashna has left no stone unturned in her search for a job in television, but so far she hasn't had any luck.
  
• Keep it under your hat: If someone tells you a secret and you keep it under your hat, you don't tell anyone.
  Usage: I agreed to keep it under my hat and never tell anyone.
  
• Join the ranks of: If someone joins the ranks of a group or a class of people, they become the part of that group.
  Usage: Lauren's goal in life is to join the ranks of the idle rich, but first he has to become rich.
  
• In a row: If something happened several times in a row, it happened several times in an unbroken sequence.
  Usage: We got behind schedule because of weather. It's rained for the last four days in a row.
  
• Hard to swallow: Something that someone said is hard to swallow if its difficult to believe.
  Usage: His excuse for coming late was a bit hard to swallow, don't you think?

The link to previous lesson is here: 12 Idioms you should learn.... Everyday Conversations 2

So keep up your conversations and keep learning.

Happy conversations :)

Love,

Surbhi :)