{"id":71852,"date":"2019-08-29T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71852"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:29:50","slug":"arm-idioms-idioms-with-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/arm-idioms-idioms-with-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm Idioms | Idioms With Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms derived from the word <strong>arm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost an arm and a leg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something costs an arm and a leg, it is very pricey. This is an informal idiom.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That laptop cost me an arm and a leg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A shot in the arm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you receive a shot in the arm, you get a sudden encouragement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This industry needs a shot in the arm in the form of foreign investment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The long arm of the law <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one can escape the long arm of the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twist somebody\u2019s arm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you twist somebody\u2019s arm you persuade them to do something they don\u2019t want to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t want to go to the party, but Jane twisted my arm. (= Jane persuaded me to go.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keep somebody at arm&#8217;s length<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you keep somebody at arm\u2019s length, you don\u2019t allow them to be too friendly with you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t know why she is keeping me at arm\u2019s length.<\/li>\n<li>I always keep strangers at arm\u2019s length.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idioms derived from the word arm. Cost an arm and a leg When something costs an arm and a leg, it is very pricey. This is an informal idiom.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[947,948],"class_list":["post-71852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-arm-idioms","tag-idioms-with-arm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71853,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852\/revisions\/71853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}