Suggest me some idioms, please!

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I wanna idioms which means:1) When something happens that makes a problem even worse2) When you test something to know if it is right thing or not3) Destroying something completely, especially something that people also involved and died during destruction.Thanks.

Sam1947 · Accepted Answer

For number 1 you could say, "That threw a monkey wrench into the works."

The term "take something for a test drive" has been widened to mean more things than cars, for example, if you thought you had a solution to a particular I.T. problem, you might say, "Let's take this baby for a test drive and see if she works." Or, if the meaning is more to get approval from others about whether or not a plan is right, you might say, "Let's run it up the flag pole and see who salutes."

I can't think of anything for the 3rd one.

Bbk_agp · Answer

sam1947 ...
I can't think of anything for the 3rd one.

Thanks.

About 3rd one:
Some idiom to mean: to massacre, to irradicate,...

Sam1947 · Answer

I understand what you are asking, I just can't seem to come up with one for that. I will keep ruminating on it and let you know if I do.

If it happened in an explosion, people do say, "blown to smithereens," as in, "The car in which the ambassador and his staff were travelling hit an I.E.D. and was blown to smithereens."

That would mean that the car and its inhabitants were reduced to such tiny pieces nothing definitive, or only small pieces could be recovered.

"Wiped off the face of the earth" is another expression that is used, as in, "The village and its inhabitants were wiped off the face of the earth by the massive carpet bombing."

Anonymous · Answer

I think for the first one you can also use

out of a frying pan into the fire

Sam1947 · Answer

Out of the frying pan into the fire has a slightly different meaning than what I infer is being looked for in no. 1. It means the person or persons in question are making their own situation worse, and going from an already bad situation to one that is even worse, rather than someone or something unexpected from the outside making it worse. For example, if you knew a girl (let's call her Sally) who had been dating someone who treated her harshly, and you heard that she had married him, you might say, "I'm afraid Sally has just jumped out of the frying pan into the fire."

Another one you hear in the western regions of the U.S. (and maybe elsewhere) that would fit no. 1, is, "That has just put a real hitch in our get along." British Petroleum might well have said that when they were trying to cap the well that was spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico and a hurricane formed and was threatening the sight. It means that something unexpected happening outside one's control has made whatever one is trying to accomplish more difficult.

Suggest me some idioms, please!

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