Environmental and Cultural Impacts on Idioms' Formation in English and Arabic Languages

history, and way of life. English and Arabic environments are different from many aspects; history, climate, geography, culture, and lifestyle. This fact undoubtedly left a great impact on formulating the idioms. In the UK and particularly Britain, as it origin of English, the environmental factors have clear impact in the way most English idioms were formed as mentioned bellow. On the other hand, Arabic environment with dessert as dominant component of it actually has an impact, in addition, to Bedouin lifestyle, Arabic culture way in reflecting their values by storytelling. The investigated idioms indicated that, both English and Arabic idioms reflect their environments and cultures in their idioms. Aim: This paper aims to investigate environmental impact on idioms; by focusing on how people form the idioms in their languages. Various factors and values of a concerned community were represented in their idioms. The paper focuses on English and Arabic environments and idioms as examples not a limitation. Methodology:To make the investigation and comparison; the writer collected data from secondary sources. The data and numbers were collected from official and semiofficial sources. The sources described and mentioned the factors that have an impact, and the writer supported them by given examples from both languages.