Picture it 

Preparation

Imagine a "window" in your mind:
What colour is it?
Does the glass reflect?
Is it round, square, rectangular?

You can use your imagination in a similar way to help you learn idioms.

Idioms

a. Imagine you are at the top of a cliff ... you are moving backwards ... coming slowly towards you is ... the devil himself ... you reach the end of the cliff ... . look down ... and see a deep blue sea.
Idiom: Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

b. Picture a dry place ... the sun is hot ... there is someone there who is very frightened ... he is running away as fast as he can ... as he runs he leaves a trail of dust behind ... it's difficult to see where he's gone.
Idiom: You can't see him for dust.

c. You can see a young boy walking along with his father ... look closely at their eyes ... they both have the same colour of eyes ... their hair has the same cut ... they have a similar nose ... they even walk the same  ... the sound of their voices is very alike ...
Idiom : Like father, like son.

d. You are in the street ... suddenly you notice something bright on the other side of the road ... it's a golden colour  ... small and round ... it certainly looks like a valuable gold coin ... perhaps someone has dropped it ... you go across the road to inspect your find. It's a flat chocolate wrapped in bright yellow paper.
Idiom: All that glitters is not gold.

e. You are in a place with a lot of people ... everyone is doing something different ... suddenly one person attracts your attention ... they are doing something which is incorrect ... you pretend not to see ...
Idiom: To turn a blind eye.

Practice

Look up the meaning of some of the following idioms in a dictionary.
Imagine them in a scene.
Write out a description of your scenes and post them. 
 
 

To see eye to eye with	To put two and two together
He's off his head	A drowning man clutches a straw
Put a good face on it	Birds of a feather flock together
Where there's smoke there's a fire	To have your heart in your mouth
Look for a needle in a haystack	To hit the nail on the head
To be up to your eyes in	To blow your own trumpet
To keep your eyes skinned	To beat about the bush
To look down you nose at	To catch someone red handed