Why I collect idioms - alphabetical list

 I started collecting idioms at the request of a Chinese speaker who had trouble understanding everyday English. I was compiling a book to help him, including a list of idioms. 

I see a lot of idioms in the Daily Mail online. I also read the BBC news and the English newspaper the  Times. I get directed by Google or AI to other overseas sources such as Singapore's Sunday Times, Indian newspapers. I hear spoken idioms at meetings. I look at websites of quotations. I have hardback books of idioms.

Here is my ongoing list.

Alhabetically. Not updated in date order but alphabetically.

blindsided - surprised A car used to have a blind side, where drivers could not see vehicles or poeple on the side, before improvements to mirrors and windows. Why is blindsided one word made from two, not hyphenated, not left as two words? When two nouns are linked to become an adjective, instead of having three separate words, the two linked nouns are joined to form an adjective, or compound noun. This makes the link more obvious. 

Grammar and Spelling Notes

Doorknob is one word, but door key is left as two words or hyphenated as door-key.

Useful Websites On Grammar

On the day when I create a blog post I add the word websites as a heading and save my blog post even though there is only one website. I used to get annoyed when I saw other people do this. Now I tolerate it because I can see there is a good reason. The list may be updated later. No need to change the subj-heading. Urgent need to save after the first website noted, to be sure of not losing your work.

My husband says, you should write your blog post in word and load it up only when you have it compleely correct. He did that, but only wrote a blog post once a month. I am running three daily blogs, plus updating this one and others.

My daily blogs are on travel, dress, comic poetry. I have others on songs, landlords and tenants, how to get out of the mess. 

https://knowadays.com/blog/common-homophone-errors-and-how-to-avoid-them/