Blind acceptance

August 26th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in English Idioms

If people accept thing blindly, they accept them without questioning them at all.

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Donkey work

August 19th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in English Idioms

Donkey work is any hard, boring work or task.

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Make a virtue out of necessity

August 17th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in English Idioms

If you make a virtue out of necessity, you make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation.

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Few and far between

August 16th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in English Idioms

If things are few and far between, they happen very occasionally.

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Saying is one thing; doing is another

August 16th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in English Idioms

It’s harder to do something than it is to say that you will do it.

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