Descubre el verdadero origen de las expresiones idiomáticas más utilizadas en inglés!

• A cock and bull story
• A dark horse
• A white elephant
• As easy as pie
• As mad as a March hare
• As old as the hills
• At sixes and sevens
• Bag and baggage
• Baker's dozen
• Black Friday
• Boxing Day
• Can't hold a candle
• Close, but no cigar
• Cloud nine
• Crocodile tears
• Dressed to the nines
• Fast asleep
• High and dry
• In the limelight
• It's raining cats and dogs
• Like a red rag to a bull
• Never look a gift-horse in the mouth
• Once in a blue moon
• Over the moon
• Red-letter day
• Red tape
• Shopping days until Christmas
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Tell it to the marines
• The black sheep
• To bark up the wrong tree
• To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
• To be long in the tooth
• To be on the pig's back
• To break the ice
• To bury the hatchet
• To catch someone red-handed
• To cut the mustard
• To cut to the chase
• To fly off the handle
• To get/jump on the bandwagon
• To have bats in the belfry
• To have seen the elephant
• To have seen the lions
• To have somebody over a barrel
• To jump the gun
• To keep up with the Joneses
• To learn the ropes
• To let off steam
• To let the cat out of the bag
• To play ducks and drakes
• To push the envelope
• To push the boat out
• To run out of steam
• To take something with a grain/pinch of salt
• To talk/speak of the devil
• To throw in the towel
• To upset the apple cart
• To win hands down
• Top drawer
• Vis-à-vis

Ver también: The Story behind the Words

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