Best idiomatic dictionary for free, A to z

Fast and furious: This idiom is used for something that happens very quickly or for someone who is very restless quick.

Fat cat: A rich and influential person.

Fat chance: No chance at all.

Fat head: A dull and stupid person.

Fat hits the fire: When trouble breaks out.

Fat of the land: To live off the fat of the land is to have the best of everything in life.

Fate worse than death: Something very unpleasant and grim.

Feather your own nest: To use one’s position for personal gain.

Feathers are fling: When people are arguing or fighting.

Fed up to the back teeth: Very fed up and irritated.

Feel at home: To be very comfortable and relax somewhere.

Feel like a million: To be very happy and healthy.

Feet of clay: To have feet of clay is to have a few flaws that make the person more like normal human being.

Feet on the ground: To be practical and realistic.

Fence sitter: To maintain a neutral position without fully taking anyone’s side.

Fever pitch: To be very excited or restless.

Few and far between: Occasionally.

Find your feet: The process of gaining confidence and experience in something.

Finders keepers, losers weepers: Whoever finds something can keep it.

Fine and dandy: Well and good.

Fine tuning: A little bit of adjustments and modification to improve something.

Finger in the pie: To be involved or interested in something.

Fingers and thumbs: To be very clumsy and unskilled.

Fire away: When someone tells you to fire away, they mean that you are free to ask whatever you want.

First out of the gate: To be the first to do something which others were also trying to do.

First port of call: The first stop.

Fish in troubled waters: To take advantage of an unstable condition and get or do what they want.

Fish or cut bait: It is time to take action about something.

Fishy: Something suspicious.

Fit to be tied: To be very angry.

Flat out: To work flat out is to work as hard as one can.

Fly the flag: To show support for one’s country or represent it.