Idioms | List of Idioms

Wear one's heart on one's sleeve

Meaning:

Show emotions or feelings openly.

If you wear your heart on your sleeve, you openly express your feelings or emotions to others.


Example:

A: How did the interview go? Did he tell you what problems he has?
B: No, it was very difficult to make him open his heart and tell me his true feelings.
He's not a kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Be careful when you talk to her. Never wear your heart on your sleeve.

When it rains, it pours.

Meaning:

When one thing goes wrong, many other things also go wrong.

You say, "When it rains, it pours" when several similar, especially bad or annoying things happen at the same time.

Example:

I can't believe what happened to me last week! My dog ate my homework, and my computer crashed. Even worse, I got sick that night! When it rains, it pours!

A: No one in my family had been sick for many years, but everyone caught the flu last month at the same time.
B: When it rains, it pours.

When pigs fly

Meaning:

Never.

If you you say when pigs fly, you mean something will never happen.

People sometimes say, "And pigs might fly" to mean something a person just said will never happen or is impossible.

Example:

A: Do you think she'll ever come back and work with us again?
B: When pigs fly she will. (She will never come back again.)

A: We might get a raise when another person becomes the president (of this company).
B: And pigs might fly. (It'll never happen.)