Oct 15, 2013

Glossary unit 1 We are what we eat

I'm gonna writte some new expressions I had learnt. Some of them are related to the same word use in different contexts.

To take the bull by the hornsTo deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.
To heads are better than one: When two people work together, they are more likely (probably) to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
To keep your head above water: When you are just managing to survive despite not having (money, time, things...)
Self-steem: To feel confident on you.
Breaking point: He/she needs help, because he/she cannot continuous.
Dropped weight: To lose weight.
Purge: To provoke youre self vomit.
Vomit: When you're sick you purg in a involuntaire way.
Follow your footsteps: to be as an other person and do the same.
Powder: levadura.
To be in a good mood: to be happy.
Edible: something you can eat.
Scallion: a soft type of onion.
Tater: a kind of potatoe.
Wasted: something unuse.
Peeling: the sking of a fruit.
Shortcuts: to get the faster way.
Chairperson: a person who manage the debate.
There are plenty more fish in the sea: if someone wants something, he has another choices in a sitution. It is often said to comfort someone who had a romantic break-up.
The icing on the cake: something which is added to an alredy good thing or situation.
It's just not cricket: to say that something is unfair or dishonest.
To toy with: means to take smeone's feeling seriously.
A toyboy: is the younger boyfriend of an older person.
Like a ton of briks: 8you can use it literaly to say that something is very weight
It's a hot potatoe: if there's a delicate issue and people can´t agree.
They're like two beans un a pod: if two people look very similarwe say this expression.
Iwasn't born yesterday: you say this because someone is telling you an obviousli lie.
The big cheese: is the most important or powerful person in a group or organitation.
The chalk and cheese: nothing to do with each other, because they are two people very different to each other.
A little bird told me: if you have an information but you don't want to say who told you.
To be or to have mouth: someone told everybody about things he /she shouldn't say. He she must kept it in secret or avoided.


PIE:
It's as easy as pie: When something is very easy/ too easy
Pie-eyed: Someone very drunk.
To have a finger in many pies: Someone that has a lot of activities / you are involved in lots of things.
It's as easy as pie to be pie: Too easy to be easy.


EGG
A bag egg: if I want to easy that someone is bad as honest, we can call him I her a bad egg.
Don't pull all yur eggs in one basket: bus should never rely an only one plan in case it goes wrong.
He got egg on his face: When someone makes a mistake wich makes him/her look stupid.

BEANS
Full of beans: someone that is full of energy.
I haven´t got a bean: you have not money at all.
Spill the beans: We want to tell us something secret.

TEA
It's not my cup of tea: If there's something we don´t like much (a sport, a person, a type of music...) you can use this expression.
I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: if there's something we wouldn't do it.
It's as good as a chocolate teapot: something completely useless.

FRUIT
He's gone bananas: someone very emotional that starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way.
It's a case of sour graps: if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something  because he/she feels jealous.
A second bite of the cherry: if we try to do something a second time because we fauled at first we say this.

NEST
To fly the nest: to live your parents' home for the first time to go to live somewhere else.
A nest egg: it's an amount of money you have served in the future.

WHALE
To have a whale of time: to have a lot of fun while doing something.
Size of a whale: it is an unpolite way saying they are large or overweight.

RAINBOW
All the colours of the rainbow: it is very colourfull.
Chasing rainbows: refers to someone who is always looking fo something more exciting and rewarding but it's unlikely to find it.

FIRE
You're playing with fire: you are doingsomething which could be dangerous.
If you add fuel to the fire: you make a bad situation even worse.