idioms by Photograph form the Daily Telegraph ,by Thad and Sarah Lawrence, probably copyright, I don't know.

Idioms by Photograph. The photographers here are genuinely married, she is genuinely pregnant, it's all autobiographical.


 a perfect catch.
This analogy to fishing is at least 250 years old.

Just a puppet on a string














Sparks fly (+ or - between us/ him and me/etc,) Sparks flying+or-between people, can also refer to fights, arguments, and quarrrels.

You turn me on !
Not only between a man and a awoman, could be music, whatever:
many expressions: whatever turns you on/off.
Hippy slogan from late &0s, Berkely, Calif.:
"Tune in, turn on, and drop out."

This sucks !


























I thought the euphemism to "have a bun in the oven "   for being pregnant was little-used and old-fashioned , even offensive, but here it is back again.

"Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!"






You can be catapulted into pretty nearly anything fast and breathlessly unexpected: fame  or  love  or marriage , etc

(You didn't know that the name for this sort of boys' traditional weapon was a catapult, from the latin! And it's nothing like a roman one? Sorry. Not my fault.)