English Idiom

💡Idiom:
"GARDEN-VARIETY”

🧐Meaning:
Ordinary.

✅Example:
My house isn't fancy. It's just a garden-variety ranch house in the suburbs.

💡Proverb:
“Barking dogs seldom bite”

🧐Meaning:
People who appear threatening rarely do harm.

✅Example:
X: I’m really scared to report delay in the project to the boss. His temper is so over the top. Y: I don’t think you should worry too much about it. Barking dogs seldom bite.

💡Proverb:
“A thing begun is half done”

🧐Meaning:
A good beginning makes it easier to accomplish the rest of the project.

✅Example:
He has already won first set in the match. I think he is on course to take this match. Well begun is half done, after all.

📔 Rags to rags in three generations

🤔Possible meaning
The first generation in a family makes money (goes from rags to riches); the second generation holds or keeps the money; and the third generation squanders or loses the money (and so goes back to rags).

✏️Note
rags (noun) = old, tattered clothes | generation (noun) = all of the people born and living at about the same time; a set of members of a family born and living at about the same time
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💡Proverb:
“An empty vessel makes much noise”

🧐Meaning:
Foolish or stupid people are the most talkative.

✅Example:
The spokesperson of the ruling political party yesterday was shouting at the top of his voice on a TV debate, trying to defend the indefensible. Empty vessel makes much noise.

💡Idiom:
"THE APPLE DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE”

🧐Meaning:
Kids tends to resemble their parents

✅Example:
His father was a thief, and so is he. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.