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 R” in English:
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Race Against Time
Meaning: To rush to meet a deadline, to be forced to do something very quickly
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Rain Cats And Dogs
Meaning: Rain heavily
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Rain Cats and Dogs
Meaning: Rain very heavily
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Rain on Someone’s Parade
Meaning: Spoil someone’s plans
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Raise (Someone’s) Hackles
Meaning: Make someone angry and defensive
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Raise One’s Voice
Meaning: Talk loudly
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Raise Red Flags
Meaning: Warn of trouble ahead
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Raise the Bar
Meaning: Increase standards in a certain competition or area of endeavor
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Raise the Roof
Meaning: Make a great deal of noise (said of a crowd)
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Rake (Someone) Over the Coals
Meaning: To scold someone severely
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Rake Over the Ashes
Meaning: Restart a settled argument; examine a failure
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Rake Someone Over the Coals
Meaning: Scold severely
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Rank and File
Meaning: The ordinary members of an organization
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Read Between the Lines
Meaning: Perceive what is not explicitly stated
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Read the Tea Leaves
Meaning: Predict the future from small signs
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Rear Its Ugly Head (said of a problem or something unpleasant)
Meaning: Appear, be revealed
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Rearrange the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Meaning: Taking superficial actions while ignoring a much larger and perhaps fatal problem
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Red Flag
Meaning: A warning; a sign of trouble ahead
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Red Herring
Meaning: A misleading clue; something intended to mislead
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Red Meat
Meaning: Political appeals designed to excite one’s core supporters; demagoguery
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Red Tape
Meaning: Bureaucracy; difficult bureaucratic or governmental requirements
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Red-Light District
Meaning: A neighborhood with many houses of prostitution
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Reinvent the Wheel
Meaning: Devise a solution to a problem for which a solution already exists
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Riding High
Meaning: Enjoying success
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Right as Rain
Meaning: Absolutely correct
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Right Under (One’s) Nose
Meaning: In an obvious location, yet overlooked
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Right-Hand Man
Meaning: Chief assistant
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Right-Hand Man
Meaning: Chief assistant
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Ring a Bell
Meaning: Sound familiar
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Ring a Bell
Meaning: When something seems familiar
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Rob Peter to Pay Paul
Meaning: Pay off a debt with another loan; solve a problem in such a way that it leads to a new problem
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Rob the Cradle
Meaning: To be sexually or romantically involved with someone who is very young
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Rob the Cradle
Meaning: To be sexually or romantically involved with someone who is very young
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Rock Bottom
Meaning: An absolute low point
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Rock the Boat
Meaning: Cause a disruption in a group. Often used in the negative,don’t rock the boat.
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Roll the Dice On
Meaning: Take a risk
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Roll With the Punches
Meaning: Deal with problems by being flexible
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Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
Meaning: Complex projects take time
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Rookie Mistake
Meaning: An error made by an inexperienced person
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Rotten to the Core
Meaning: Entirely evil
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Rub (Something) in Someone’s Face
Meaning: Humiliate someone by repeating and criticizing his or her mistake
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Rub It In
Meaning: Say something that makes someone feel even worse about a mistake
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Rub Someone’s Nose in (Something)
Meaning: Humiliate someone by repeating and criticizing his or her mistake
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Rubber-Stamp
Meaning: Approve something without consideration, as a formality
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Rule of Thumb
Meaning: A general principle or guideline, not a specific formula
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Run a Tight Ship
Meaning: Manage an organization in a strict, well-regulated way
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Run in the Family
Meaning: Be inherited (as a trait) by multiple members of a family
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Run in the Family
Meaning: To be a common family characteristic
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Run into a Buzz
Meaning: Saw Encounter severe and unexpected problems
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Run into a Buzz
Meaning: Saw Encounter severe and unexpected problems
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Run off at the Mouth
Meaning: Talk a lot about unimportant things, talk incoherently
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Run on Fumes
Meaning: To be in a situation where one’s energy or resources is almost exhausted
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Run Out of Steam
Meaning: Lose momentum, become tired
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Run the Table
Meaning: Win every game or contest