2nd Intense Hour -- Idioms

You can lead a horse to water (but you can't make him/it drink).

something that you say which means you can give someone the opportunity to do something, but you cannot force them to do it if they do not want to I made all the arrangements, bought the ticket, and even took him to the airport, but he just wouldn't get on the plane. Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.-

An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words.  Here's a good place to look up idioms.

There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

These are pretty common:
  The devil is in the details.  I can't keep my head above water.

See the 100 most frequently used American idioms.

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