Idioms about Earth

Idioms about Earth

HielloEnglish learners.Welcome to a new lesson. Today, we will go through 10 idioms about Earth.

Here is the list:

• Move heaven and earth
• Salt of the earth
• On the face of the earth
• Back/down to Earth
• To earth up
• Go to the ends of the earth
• Cost the earth
• Heaven on earth
• Hell on earth
• Earth-shattering

Move heaven and earth

Meaning: to do whatever it takes to achieve something.

• When his dog got lost, Brian moved heaven and earth to find it.
• Celia moved heaven and earth to get that job.

Salt of the earth

 Meaning: an exceptionally good, kind and honest person.

• Mark is a hard-working, honest man. He’s the salt of the earth.
• Being a great benefactor of a charity, he deserved to be considered the salt of the earth.

On the face of the earth

Meaning: used to describe something as the best, the biggest, etc. in the world.

• When his son won the Olympic medal, he was the proudest man on the face of the earth.
• No man on the face of the earth could explain Maths better than our Maths teacher.

Idioms about Earth

Back/down to Earth

Meaning: to face reality.

• After her holiday in Thailand, Julia had to come back to earth and start working again.
• Kevin came back down to earth when his boss told him he was fired.

To earth up

Meaning: to cover a plant with soil in order to protect it from cold or similar.

• They earthed up the plant gently to protect it from frost.
• You mustn’t forget to earth up the roots firmly when you plant the trees.

Go to the ends of the earth

Meaning: to do everything in your power to achieve something.

• Peter loved his children so much that he would go to the ends of the earth to make them happy.
• She would go to the ends of the earth to be with her husband.

Cost the earth

Meaning: to be very expensive.

• These shoes look nice but they must cost the earth.
• Fresh paint can refresh the room and won’t cost the earth.

Heaven on earth

Meaning: a pleasant and enjoyable place.

• Believe me, if there is heaven on earth then it is the island we spent our honeymoon on.
• Living in the village in the south of Ireland was heaven on earth for Ryan.

Idioms about Earth

Hell on earth

Meaning: an extremely unpleasant situation.

• The time he spent in prison was hell on earth.
• The people who survived the horrors of the nazi camps described it as hell on earth.

Earth-shattering

Meaning: shocking and surprising.

• The diagnosis was earth-shattering news.
• If the video contains some earth-shattering pictures, you may dismiss it.

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