- To be
as easy as a pie = to be very easy.
- To be
pie-eyed = to be very drunk.
- To have
a finger in many pies = to be involved in lots of different activities.
- To be a
bad egg = to be bad or dishonest.
- To pull
all your eggs in one basket = to rely on only one plan.
- To get
egg on your face = to make an embarrassing mistake.
- To take
the bull by the horns = to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and
firm way.
- To keep
your head above water = to manage to survive despite not having much money,
time or things.
- “Two
heads are better than one” = “Two people working together are more likely
to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
- To drop
weight = to lose weight.
- To
purge = to vomit voluntarily.
- To do
sth. compulsively = to do sth. without thinking and continuously.
- To
follow your footsteps = to do the same as you.
- To be
full of beans = to be full of energy.
- To
spill the beans = to tell sb. sth. secret.
- To have
not got a bean = to have not got money.
- To be a
hot potato = to be a delicate issue.
- To be
like two peas in a pod = to look like very similar with sb.
- To be
not you cup of tea = to do not like much a sport, person, type of music...
- "I
wouldn`t do it for all the tea in China" = "I wouldn`t do it
once in a blue moon".
- To be
as good as a chocolate teapot = to be completely useless.
- To be
plenty more fish in the sea = to be other choices in a situation.
- To be
the icing on the cake = to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally
better.
- To be just
not cricket = to be sth. unfair or dishonest.
- To toy
with sb. = to play with somebody´s feelings seriously.
- To be a
toyboy = to be younger than your girlfriend.
- To be
like a ton of bricks = to be very heavy/ to be a really fat person/ to be
a great surprise.
- To fly
the nest = to leave your parent´s home for the first time.
- To have
a nest egg = to have an amount of money saved for the future.
- "I
wasn`t born yesterday" = "I know you`re cheating me".
- To
have a whale of a time = to have a lot of fun.
- To be
the size of a whale = to be large and overweight.
- To be
gone bananas = to act in a crazy way.
- "It`s
a case of sour grapes" = "He/ she is pretending not to be
impressed by sth. because he/ she feels jealous.
- To have
a second bite of the cherry = to have a second opportunity.
- To lie by omission = to lie by not telling all the truth.
- To take sth. with a pinch of salt = to be very careful with sth.
- To be the big cheese = to be the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.
- To be chalk and cheese = to be (two people) very different to each other.
- "A little bird told me" = " I know sth. about you, but I don`t want to reveal who said it to me".
- To be or to have a big mouth = to talk too much, specially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.
- To be all the colours of the rainbow = to be very colourful.
- To be sth. chasing rainbow = to be sth. very difficult and unlikely to achieve it.
- To play with fire = to do sth. which could be dangerous.
- To add fuel to the fire = to make a bad situation even worse.
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- Self-esteem = self-respect/ self-confidence/ amour-propre/ pride.
- Earl = nobleman/
aristocrat.
- Bland =
insipid.
- Breaking
point = the moment of truth in which you normally fall down.
- Term effects = all those bad end results that happen as time goes by.
- To omit = to skip.
- Factual = realistic.
- Mug = vessel/ cup.
- Wheat = grain.
- To ban = to forbid.
- Crop = harvest/ yield.
- Plot of land = smallholding.
- Fortune teller = diviner
- Tarot reader = mystic person who "guess" your future by a card game.
- GE = genetically engineered
- GM = genetically modified
- GMO =genetically modified organism
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