An idiom is a set combination of words that has a specific meaning, which usually cannot be inferred from the meanings of the individual words.
Study the following idioms.
- Anabel thought he had lost her sunglasses. He racked his brains trying to remember where she had left them. (Rack your brain is to make a great mental effort to remember or think of something.)
- Raditya is the most tactless person I know. He cannot open his lips without putting his foot in it. (As you put your foot in it, you unintentionally say something that offends or upsets someone.)
Dion : I’ve just bought a new electric bike. It’s a green bike, the latest model. :
Reza : You’re pulling my leg! You can’t afford an electric bike. It’s expensive.
Dion : I’m telling the truth. Come and look at it.
(When you pull someone’s leg you try to make the person believe something that is not true.)
