Geography Idioms

"dirt cheap"

• very expensive

• diamonds

• not expensive

• luxury

"down to earth"

• honest, humble, and kind

• underground

• to sink

• Earth, Wind and Fire

"go downhill"

• feeling young

• getting old, getting sick

• energetic

• happy

"the coast is clear"

• now safe, no danger

• to solve a problem

• the beach

• Lake Tahoe

"stick in the mud"

• to happen many times

• normal

• boring, angry, mean

• moonlight

"out of the woods"

• the forest

• to get out of trouble

• firewood

• to cut down trees

"tip of the iceberg"

• a small part of a bigger problem

• really bad

• the Titanic

• not good

"over the hill"

• ant hill

• getting old

• feeling young

• athletic

"hit the road"

• the Titanic

• ice and snow

• to start driving, to go somewhere

• cold and ice

"to win by a landslide"

• mudslide

• rain and flooding

• to easily win an election

• pool slide