Idioms are probably one of the most difficult areas in learning a language, partly because most of these idiomatic expressions are not written down making them hard to find. But generally most people just expect speakers of the language to know them, and these are of course a huge reflection of a society and cultures development over a long period of time meaning that the logic behind the expression might be basically non-existent for somebody who hasn’t been taught them from a young age.

However, this blog post is a crash course on the most common ones, to take your language to a completely different level!

We’ll start off with some easy ones about animals, used almost all the time.

Just so you follow the organization of the table above I’ll explain why I have written things the way I did. Either you remember an idiom by the characteristic it is describing or the for example the animal used to describe. But if the animal is used to describe something different in Swedish than in your own language you’re in trouble right!?

Then there are a couple of others, very commonly used idioms in everyday life. Some are similar and others are quite different. Once you have heard them you’ll start hearing them all over the place, in films, books or conversations. Please share ones from you own language too!