IdiomDictionary – This fun and handy tool offers the identification, explanation and etymological description of over 5000 idioms found in the English language. Simply type in any word and you’ll be presented with a list of related idioms. Clicking on any of these will propmt a clean page giving a short definition of the idiom, its use in a sentence and a brief etymological explanation (origin history of the word or phrase).

Look at the screen shot below of my search for an idiom many of us can identify with at this time of year: Dog Days.