Swimming Idioms Part 1

(from http://www.business-english.com/swimmingidioms/menu.php with some modifications) If you are ‘out of your depth’, you don’t have the necessary knowledge, experience or skill to deal with a particular situation or subject. In North America, a common replacement is ‘out of your league’, as in major league baseball. • When she started talking about quantum physics, I felt […]

Swimming Idioms Part 2

If you ‘make a splash’, you get a lot of public attention. • We need to make a splash by holding a cocktail party for journalists. • She made quite a splash when she wore such a small dress to the film premiere. If a noise is ‘drowned out’, you cannot hear it because of […]