"Monday" idioms

 

Monday morning quarterback

a person who acts like he or she has all the answers to a problem, especially in hindsight, usually without having any experience in that area.

 

It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback when you see the kids' low test scores, but there are no easy answers to improving education.

 

That Monday morning feeling

if you have that Monday morning feeling, you are unhappy that the weekend has finished and you have to go back to work.

 

- You look fed up. What's wrong...

Fine art

something requiring highly developed techniques and skills.

They are good at the fine art of web development.

 

State-of-the-art

using the newest ideas, design, and materials.

State-of-the-art computer graphics show how your kitchen could be transformed.

 

Work of art

a piece of art; a good result of one's efforts.

She purchased a lovely work of art for her living room.

Your report was a real work of art. Very well done.

 
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Off colour

slightly unwell.

"I'm feeling a bit off colour"

synonyms: unwell, ill, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out; More

2.

slightly indecent or obscene.

"off-colour jokes"

synonyms: smutty, dirty, rude, filthy, crude, suggestive, indecent, indelicate, indecorous, risqué, racy, bawdy, naughty, spicy, blue, vulgar, ribald, broad, salacious, coarse, obscene, pornographic;                                                                                                                                                                           Strange idioms in the English language:

"One's goose is cooked"

One is finished; one has been found out and is in trouble. It's over. His goose is cooked! If I get caught, my goose is cooked.

The standard expression is 'Your goose is cooked', meaning that you are in big trouble. I'd understand 'You've cooked your own goose' to be derived from this, meaning 'You have caused big trouble for yourself'.

 

If you want to research 'Your goose is cooked', you might also like to look at the common and somewhat..                                                                                              "Storm in a teacup".