English idioms, proverbs, and expressions are an important part of everyday English. They come up all the time in both written and spoken English. Because idioms don’t always make sense literally, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the meaning and usage of each idiom. That may seem like a lot of work, but learning idioms is fun, especially when you compare English idioms to the idioms in your own language.
Here’s a list of “Idioms Beginning With G” in English:
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Game of Chicken
Meaning: A conflict situation in which neither side will back down for fear of seeming cowardly (chicken)
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Get A Charley Horse
Meaning: To develop a cramp in the arm or the leg
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Get A Word In Edgewise
Meaning: Be able to say something while someone else is talking a lot
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Get Along (with Someone)
Meaning: To have a satisfactory relationship
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Get Bent Out of Shape
Meaning: Become angry, upset
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Get Carried Away
Meaning: Become overly enthusiastic
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Get In on the Ground Floor
Meaning: Invest in or join something while it is still small
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Get in Shape
Meaning: Undertake a program of physical conditioning; exercise regularly
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Get Off Scot Free
Meaning: Be accused of wrongdoing but pay no penalty at all
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Get Off Scot Free
Meaning: Be accused of wrongdoing but pay no penalty at all
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Get One’s Ducks in a Row
Meaning: Have everything organized; get oneself organized
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Get One’s Hands Dirty
Meaning: To do the unpleasant parts of a job
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Get Someone’s Goat
Meaning: To irritate someone deeply
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Get To Grips With
Meaning: To begin to understand and deal with something
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Get the Ball Rolling
Meaning: Do something to begin a process
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Get the Picture
Meaning: Understand what’s happening
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Get the Runaround
Meaning: Be given an unclear or evasive answer to a question
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Get the Sack, Be Sacked
Meaning: To be fired
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Get the Third Degree
Meaning: To be questioned in great detail about something
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Get Wind of
Meaning: Hear about
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Get With the Program
Meaning: Figure out what everyone else already knows. Often used sarcastically, as a command
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Go Along (With)
Meaning: Agree to something, often provisionally
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Go Ape
Meaning: Express wild excitement or anger
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Go Ballistic
Meaning: Fly into a rage
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Go Bananas
Meaning: To become irrational or crazy
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Go Bananas
Meaning: To become irrational or crazy
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Go Belly Up
Meaning: To go bankrupt
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Go Berserk
Meaning: To go crazy
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Go Bonkers
Meaning: To be or become wild, restless, irrational, or crazy; to act in such a way
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Go Cold Turkey
Meaning: Stop using an addictive substance suddenly, without tapering off
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Go Down in Flames
Meaning: Fail in a spectacular way
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Go Mental
Meaning: To suddenly become extremely angry
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Go Nuclear
Meaning: Use an extreme measure; because extremely angry
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Go Nuts
Meaning: To become crazy
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Go Off Half-Cocked
Meaning: To say or something prematurely, with a negative effect
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Go Off the Deep End
Meaning: To unexpectedly become very angry, especially without a good reason
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Go Off The Rails
Meaning: To go wrong, to begin acting strangely or badly
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Go Out on a Limb
Meaning: Assert something that may not be true; put oneself in a vulnerable position
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Go Pear-Shaped
Meaning: To fail; to go wrong
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Go See a Man About a Dog
Meaning: Go to the bathroom (said as a euphemism)
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Go to the Dogs
Meaning: To become disordered, to decay
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Go to the Mattresses
Meaning: To go to into battle
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Go the Extra Mile
Meaning: Put forth greater-than-expected effort
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Go Under the Knife
Meaning: Undergo surgery
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Go Viral
Meaning: Begin To spread rapidly on the Internet
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Go with the Flow
Meaning: To accept the way things naturally seem to be going
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Grab (Take) the Bull by the Horns
Meaning: To begin forthrightly to deal with a problem
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Grasp (Grab) at Straws
Meaning: To take desperate actions with little hope of success
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Grease Monkey
Meaning: A mechanic, especially an auto mechanic
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Grease the Wheels
Meaning: Do something to make an operation run smoothly
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Greasy Spoon
Meaning: An inexpensive restaurant that fries foods on a grill
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Green Around the Gills
Meaning: To look sick
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Green as Grass
Meaning: Lacking training, naive; often said of young people in new jobs
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Grind One’s Teeth
Meaning: Be very annoyed or angry about something without being able to say anything about it.
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Guilty Pleasure
Meaning: Enjoying something which is not generally held in high regard, while at the same time feeling a bit guilty about it, is called a guilty pleasure.
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Guinea Pig
Meaning: A test subject, a person who is used as a test to see if something will work
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Give and Take
Meaning: Negotiations, the process of compromise
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Give ’em Hell (often excl.)
Meaning: Express something passionately to a group
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Give Lip Service to
Meaning: Talk about supporting something without taking any concrete action
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Give Lip Service
Meaning: to Talk about supporting something without taking any concrete action
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Give One’s Two Cents (That’s My Two Cents)
Meaning: Offer an opinion, suggest something
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Give Someone a Holler
Meaning: Contact someone
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Give Someone a Piece of Your Mind
Meaning: Angrily tell someone what you think
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Give Someone a Run for Their Money
Meaning: Compete effectively with the leader in a particular field
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Give Someone an Earful
Meaning: angrily express an opinion to someone
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Give Someone the Cold Shoulder
Meaning: act hostile toward someone; to ignore, snub
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Give Someone The Old Heave-Ho
Meaning: Fire someone, remove someone from a group or team
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Give Something a Whirl
Meaning: Attempt something without being totally familiar with it
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Give the Green Light
Meaning: Approve something; allow something to proceed