Give your favorite English expression(s) and explain the meaning

"Bite the bullet" is a good phrase. It means be brave and do something hard. Even if you don't want to, you do it. You are strong and don't complain. Think of it like bad medicine. You have to take it, so you just do it. You "bite the bullet." It's like being tough and facing a problem. Maybe you have a hard job. You don't like it, but you "bite the bullet" and do it. It means be strong when things are not easy.

"No pain, no gain". If you want to achieve results, you need to work hard and be prepared for challenges and even failures on the way to your goal "A penny for your thoughts". Meaning: “Tell me what you are thinking”

“Out of the frying pan, into the fire” – escaping a bad situation only to find yourself in worse one

Wish in one hand and shit in the other, tell me which one fills up first. Action will yield results quicker than wishing, hoping, praying, and planning.

Shit or get off the pot. Either do what you are saying you are going to do or get out of the way for other people.

"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it." The original version is "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." which means not to worry about problems that you MIGHT encounter in the future, deal with what's wrong now. The modified version is similar except it assumes failure.

"Eschew obfuscation." It's ironic humor.

"I'm not here to fuck spiders" Let's get started already. I don't want to waste time.

To be "born on third, and thinking \[you/he/she/they\] hit a triple." It's a baseball metaphor which describes someone who finds themselves in a near-winning position, and believes they got there through skillful play, when in fact they simply started out ahead. It means someone who takes credit for an advantage they didn't actually earn. You can use it to describe, for example, people with trust funds who call themselves self-made, older people who think younger people are poor because they "don't want to work," et cetera.

“Go big or go home”; it’s a kind of a peppy thing to get someone to raise the stakes of something or put in their all.

“It’s raining cats and dogs!”  Rain is pouring down, it’s a super stormy day

“Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket “.

"close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"–it doesn't matter that you got close, it matters whether or not you did it

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -Hamlet Means that the world is bigger and more complex than you can imagine; or, that you don’t know everything.

Texan here... "He's all hat and no cattle!" Means someone is a braggart who is unable to back up their claims. A big talker.

Makes for great theater! 👍

Ain't (be not) < no reason, it looks so cool!

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (William Blake)

Don't let the doorknob hit you where the good lord split you lol. That's always a fun one to see learners try and parse out (it means, don't let the doorknob hot you on the butt. But it's a way of saying "good riddance", in acknowledgement of them leaving or telling someone they better leave)

I like the phrase "let's call a spade a spade" You'll sometimes see it used in arguments or discussions, and it means that you are going to (and you're asking the other person to) speak directly and truthfully about a given topic rather than "beating around the bush," euphemizing, or obscuring your meaning in an attempt to be polite or deceptive.