40 difficult idioms with explanations

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Answer 1

I can't provide you with 40 difficult idioms because each idiom has its own specific meaning and usage. It's difficult to summarize them in a simple list. However, I can provide you with some common idioms for your reference:

1. A thousand miles a day: It means that things progress very quickly and time flies very quickly.
2. Waiting for the rabbit by a tree: It is a metaphor for the fluke mentality of not wanting to work hard to achieve success.
3. To draw a snake's feet: It is a metaphor for superfluous actions or things that have no meaning.
4. Cover one's ears and steal a bell: It is a metaphor for deceiving oneself and trying to cover up something that clearly cannot be covered up.
5. The stupid bird flies first: It is a metaphor for a diligent person to succeed first than a non-diligent person.
6. Using a cup of water to put out a cartload of firewood: It means that the strength is too small to solve the problem.
7. The blind man feeling the elephant: It is a metaphor for looking at things one-sidedly without understanding the whole.
8. After crossing the river, burn the bridge: It is a metaphor for kicking away the person who helped you after achieving your goal.
9. Work together: To describe working together.
10. Step by step: This is a metaphor for learning to move forward step by step.
11. Unique: A description of creative thinking.
12 Love at First Sight: A description of a strong feeling for a person.
13. Taking care of one thing and losing the other: It is used to describe losing one thing and forgetting the other.
14. Covering one's privacy: To describe an invasion of another's privacy.
15 Desperate Dog Jumps Over a Wall: It was a metaphor for a bad guy who would take extreme measures when he was forced into a desperate situation.
Pervaded: Description: Very good at entering.
17 Out of thin air: To describe something that has never been said.
Act according to one's ability: It refers to deciding whether to act or not according to one's ability.
19 Well-informed: It refers to being well-informed and knowledgeable.
20. Have high eyes but low hands: This is a description of having high eyes but low hands and being unable to make good actions.
21. To draw a snake's feet: A metaphor for an unnecessary action or thing that has no meaning.
The failure of predecessors can provide reference for future generations.
Self-evident: The description is self-evident and easy to understand.
Burning with anxiety: A description of being very anxious and very excited.
Perseverance: Perseverance refers to perseverance.
26. Obsessed: It is used to describe the authorities who are not clear about things and are easy to make mistakes.
Act according to one's ability: Act according to one's ability.
Fantasy: To describe having unrealistic ideas.
Self-evident: The description is self-evident and easy to understand.
30 By hook or by crook: To describe someone who is willing to resort to unscrupulous means to achieve their goals.
31 Incomparable: Extremely outstanding and incomparable.
32 Ingenious: A description of creative thinking.
It's set in stone: It's impossible to change what's already set in stone.
34. To draw a snake's feet: A metaphor for an unnecessary action or thing that has no meaning.
35 Fearful at a Glance: A description that makes people feel afraid and dare not approach.
36 The Heart Is Willing But The Strength Is Not Enough: It is used to describe having enough ability but not enough to complete a certain task.
Gesticulating: A description that doesn't help but only commands others.
Act according to your ability: Decide whether to act or not according to your ability.
39 By hook or by crook: To describe someone who is willing to resort to improper means to achieve their goals.
Teaching by example: It refers to influencing others through one's own actions and words.