English Idioms and Sayings

[RonBee]

Re:

• Wild horses couldn't keep me away.

What does that mean?

 

[RonBee]

What is meant by "He is playing a different tune now"?

:?:

 

[Beeuurkes]

What is meant by "He is playing a different tune now"?

:?:

He's made his mind. He adopted a different point of view because he felt he was wrong ?

 

[Tdol]

We would say 'he's changed his tune' in BE.;-)

 

[RonBee]

What is meant by "He is playing a different tune now"?

:?:

He adopted a different point of view because he felt he was wrong ?

Yes, he is of a different opinion now. (But he might not admit it.)

 

[RonBee]

We would say 'he's changed his tune' in BE.;-)

We say that in AE too.

 

[RonBee]

What is a right hand man?

 

[sanny]

How about:

• The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Problems have to be solved??

:roll:

 

[sanny]

Re:

• Wild horses couldn't keep me away.

What does that mean?

I wanted something so very much that nobody could stop me??

:roll:

 

[sanny]

What is meant by "He is playing a different tune now"?

:?:

He has another job or a whole other life?

 

[sanny]

What does it mean to blow your own horn?

To do whatever you want to do?


:roll:

 

[sanny]

What is meant by:

• There is more than one way to skin a cat.

There are more ways to achieve one's aim? There are more ways to get what you want?

:roll:

 

[Beeuurkes]

What is a right hand man?

A person you can rely on ?

 

[sanny]

What is the whole nine yards?

What is the whole shebang?

The whole nine yards, isn't that a home run in a football game?
And the whole shebang, isn't that everything?
To get the whole shebang: to get everything?

:?

 

[sanny]

What is a right hand man?

A person you can rely on ?

I thought about that too! , but I don't know if it's correct...

 

[Beeuurkes]

Yes. That could also be a one-handed man.

 

[sanny]

And that means??

 

[bmo]

How about:

• The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Problems have to be solved??

:roll:

The one who complains the louldest gets the attention.

BMO

 

[bmo]

What does it mean to blow your own horn?

To do whatever you want to do?


:roll:

Bragging about yourself.

BMO

 

[bmo]

What is meant by "He is playing a different tune now"?

:?:

He's made his mind. He adopted a different point of view because he felt he was wrong ?

Do the opposite way. The French and the German governments were playing a different tune when President Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq.

BMO