英语成语故事PDF电子书下载

1.Add insult to injury 1

2.A dog in the manger 2

3.Apple of one's eye 3

4.Apple of Sodom 4

5.(An)apple polisher 5

6.Ask for the moon 6

7.Asleep at the switch 7

8.Ass in lion's skin 8

9.At the drop of a hat 9

10.Ax to grind 10

11.Back-seat driver 11

12.Baker's dozen 12

13.Before one can say Jack Robinson 13

14.Bell the cat 14

15.Be someone's cup of tea 16

16.Bite the bullet 17

17.Bring home the bacon 18

18.Bury/hide one's head in the sand 19

19.Bury the hatchet 20

20.Carry too much canvas 22

21.Cart before the horse 23

22.Cat get one's tongue 24

23.Cold shoulder 26

24.Cool one's heels 27

25.Couch potato 28

26.Cry aim 29

27.Dead as a door-nail 30

28.Dead duck 31

29.Dead soldier/dead man 32

30.Die in one's boots/die with one's boots on 33

31.Easy money 34

32.Eat crow 35

33.Eat humble pie 36

34.Egg-head 37

35.Egg on 38

36.Face the music 39

37.Fair-weather friend 40

38.Feather in one's cap 41

39.Feather one's nest 42

40.Fight fire with fire 43

41.Fight like kilkenny cats 44

42.Fine feathers make fine birds 45

43.Fingers were made before forks 46

44.Follow the nose 47

45.Forget-me-not 48

46.Get into a rut 49

47.Get off on the wrong foot 50

48.Get out of bed on the wrong side 51

49.Get the sack 52

50.Get wind of 53

51.Give the shirt off one's back 54

52.Give the third degree 55

53.Go against the grain 56

54.Grease the wheels 57

55.Handwriting on the wall 58

56.Have a yen for 60

57.Have other fish to fry 61

58.In a circle 62

59.Ins and outs 63

60.In the wake of 64

61.It's a dog-eat-dog world 65

62.Keep up with the Joneses 66

63.Kick the bucket 67

64.Kill the goose that laid the golden egg 69

65.Knock for six 70

66.Knock on wood 71

67.Lame duck 72

68.Lay one's cards on the table 73

69.Let off steam 74

70.Let sleeping dogs lie 75

71.Like water off a duck's back 77

72.(the)lion's share 78

73.Look a gift horse in the mouth 79

74.Look like the cat that ate canary 80

75.Look to one's laurels 81

76.Lump in one's throat 82

77.Make a beeline for 83

78.Make bricks without straw 84

79.Make one's mark 85

80.Meet one's Waterloo 86

81.Mind one's p's and q's 87

82.Nail down 88

83.Nail one's colours to the mast 89

84.Naked truth 90

85.Neck and neck 91

86.News 92

87.Nip in the bud 93

88.Off the cuff 94

89.On the Q.T. 94

90.Paint oneself into a corner 96

91.Paint the lily 98

92.Paint the town red 99

93.Palm off 101

94.Pay through the nose 102

95.Play into sb's hands 104

96.Pot call the kettle black 105

97.Pull one's weight 107

98.Pull strings 108

99.Pull up stakes 109

100.Push the boat out 110

101.Push the panic button 111

102.Put one's shoulder to the wheel 112

103.Rough diamond 113

104.Run to earth 115

105.Sail under false colours 116

106.Set one's cap at sb. 118

107.Set the Thames on fire 120

108.Skeleton at the feast 122

109.Skeleton in the cupboard 123

110.Slap one's back 125

111.Square peg in a round hole 127

112.Steal one's thunder 128

113.Stump up 130

114.Take for a ride 132

115.Take off one's hat to someone 133

116.The eleventh hour 134

117.The first one hundred days 135

118.The lion's share thorn in the flesh 136

119.Throw in the towel 138

120.Throw one's hat into the ring 140

121.Trail one's coat 141

122.Turn the corner 142

123.Turn thumbs down 143

124.Under the counter 144

125.Under the hammer 145

126.Walk the plank 146

127.Wash one's hands of a thing 147

128.Wet blanket 148

129.White elephant 150

130.Zero hour 151