English Idioms

1️⃣. Up for grabs

📎Meaning : available and ready to be won or taken

📝Examples :

✏️There are hundreds of prizes up for grabs.

✏️As in Now that he's resigned, his job is up for grabs.

✏️This last piece of cake is up for grabs, who wants it?

2️⃣. Down_ to_ earth

📎Meaning : practical and realistic

📝Examples :

✏️She's a down-to-earth woman with no pretensions.

✏️Gloria is probably the most down to earth person I've ever met.

✏️Their ideas seem to be far more down to earth and sensible.

3️⃣. Feel / Have the blues

📎 Meaning : to be or feel generally sad or melancholy.

📝Examples :

✏️I don't know what it is, but I find I always have the blues on Sundays.

✏️I have been having the blues ever since I have heard that my daughter will be moving abroad for good.

✏️I have been feeling blue ever since I have heard that my daughter will be moving abroad.