Game for learners of English - Idioms
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Cat got your tongue?
¿Te ha comido la lengua el gato?
This expression is used when you assume that someone should say something and he/she doesn't, either because of shyness or for not daring to. It's an ironic way to invite someone to talk by asking "Why don't you say a word now? Perhaps you don't have a tongue to speak?"
Next idiom:
To go off on one
To rob the cradle
I'm not certain about this, but if it has the same meaning as ' a cradle snatcher' it refers to an amorous or sexual interest in a much younger person.
Next:
My fingers are all thumbs
Penny for your thoughts
Expression used to show one's interest in another's thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc.
Expresión usada para mostrar su interés en los pensamientos, las ideas, las opiniones, etc., del otro.
... "¿De qué piensas?"
Next:
To rob the cradle 
He's out of my league
This is used to refer to somebody who is far superior in wealth, skill, appearance, or other context, so as to be unapproachable and incomparable.
Esto se usa para referirse a alguien que es muy superior.
Next: Cat got your tongue?
to be easy on the eye:
to have an attractive appearance. For example - that girl is very easy on the eye 
New phrase:
A doubting Thomas.
To have a chip on your shoulder = to have a sense of inferiority, because you feel that something has been unfair to you.
Estar resentido
Next idiom to describe:
to be easy on the eye
A doubting Thomas - from the Biblical reference to the New Testament Thomas who doubted that Christ arose unless he could see the nailprints in His hands and side. It refers to anyone who won't believe hardly anything at the first hearing.
Next idiom: He's out of my league.
To give a thumbs up = to approve
supposedly with roots to the Roman arena when the loser in combat was to be either slain or spared, the emperor (or his representative) gave a thumbs up to sparing the potential victim (and might change his decree if enough of the audience disagreed)
What is a wooden nickel? (Other than something you do not want?)
To go off on one= to lose your temper, for example I went off on one last night when I phoned home and found my 10 year old was still up at 11.10pm!
Next idiom To put things on the long finger.
through thick and thin
Means to do something no matter what is required to achieve it.
My parents stayed together through thick and thin (through the good times and the bad)
New idiom = to be over the moon
A chip off the old block - It is an expression about a parent and child or could even include a grandparent, meaning that they are very similar in the way they act, work, look, etc.
New idiom: A penny for your thoughts
To be at one's wits end = to be overwhelmed. For example: I was overwhelmed at work last night because 6 people wanted attention at the same time.
I have loads of assignments to do for my course, I am at my wits end.
Full of beans
To hit the sack
To go to bed
Planchar oreja, irse al sobre
The last straw
My fingers are all thumbs
I am very clumsy, can't get anything right.
New Idiom (not really an idiom but good to know )
I need to go to the john.
A no brainer
...is someone who is not exactly clever, who needs a big mental effort to understand things that are pretty simple for the rest of the world.
I don't think this can be used this way .
I have heard it used like this, actually
jejeje really that was easy you retire and sit around and drink, a no brainer
We were talking about what you do when you are retired...something like, hey, we don't have to squeeze our brain on this one: this is an easy one, it is very easy to know..
