domingo, 13 de octubre de 2013

GLOSSARY

-To take the bull by the horns: Means to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.
-Two heads are better than one: Means that when two people work together the are more likely to salve a problem that one person doing alone.
-To keep your head above water: Means you are just managing to survive despite not, having much money.
-It's as easy as pie: When something is very easy.
-Pie-eyed: If someone is very drunk.
-To have a finger in many pies: If someone have a lot of activities.
-A bad egg: In english if we want to say that someone is bad or dishonest we call him a bad egg.
-Don't pull all your eggs in one basket: You should never rely on one plan in case it goes wrong.
-He got eggs on his face: If someone makes a mistake which makes him/her look stupid, we can say this expression.
-Breaking point: It's when you need help because someone say to you bad things.
-Dropped (weight): Lost weight.
-Purning: To make yourself vomit.
-Compulsively: When you do something all the time.
-Long (short) term effects: The things that happens after purning.
-Follow in you footsteps: Want to be like other person.
-Full of beans: If someone is full of beans means that he/she is full of energy.
-I haven't  a beans: If someone haven't got money at all.
-Spill the beans: If we want to tell us something secret,we can say to them ''Spill the beans''.
-It's a hot potato: If you have an delicate issue and people can't agree we call it ''a hot potato''.
-They're like to peas in a pod: If two people look very similar.
-It's not my cup of tea: In English if there's something we don't like much.
-I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: We use this expression if there's something we would never do it.
-It's as good as a chocolate teapot: In English if something is completely useless we can say this expression.
-Useless: Stupid.
-He's gone bananas:  In English if someone is very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way we can say this expression.
-It's a case of souR grapes: In English if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something  because he/she feels jealous we use this expression.
-A second bite of the cherry:  In English if we try to do something a second time because we failed at first, we can use this expression.
-To be in a good mood: To be happy.
-Chairperson: The person who control the debate.
-Adjudicator: The person who decides who wins the debate.
-There are pleanty more fish in the sea: It means that there are other choices in a situation. It's often said to confort someone who had a romantic break-up.
-The icing one the cake: It's to refer to something good which is added to an already good thing or situation.
-It's just not cricket: Is used in English to say that something in unfair or dishonest.
-To toy with somebody/something:  Means not to take someone's feeling seriously.
-A toyboy: Is the younger boyfriend of an older person.
-Like a ton of bricks:  It is used to express something that is very heavy. This expression can be used literally (to describe a heavy weight) or idiomatically (To describe  great surprise or someone that is overweight)
-To fly the nest: Means to leave your parent's home for the first time to go and live somewhere else

-A nest egg: Is an amount of money you haved saved in the future.
-I wasn't born yesterday: Is someone is telling you a very obvious lie, you can use this expression.
-To have a whale of a time:  Means to have a lot ot fun while doing something.
-Size of a whale: It's an impolite way of saving they are large and overweight.
-The big cheese: Is the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.
-Chalk and cheese: We use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.
-A little bir told me: If you have some information but you do not want to reveal who told you, then you use this expression.
-To be or to have a big mouth:  It means that you talk too much especially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.
-All the colours of the rainbow: It means it is very colourful.
-Chasing rainbows:  Refers to someone who is always looking for something more exciting and rewanding but is unlikely to find it.
-If you are playing with fire: You are doing something which could be dangerous.
-If you add fuel to the fire:  It means you make a bad situation even worse.
-If you have a flash of inspiration: It means that you get a sudden idea that helps you create or archieve what you were doing hoping to do.
-A big fish in a small pond: If we describe someone with this expression it means that he/she is very important or have a lot of influence but only in a small area or group.
-Coldfish: If someone is described with this expression it means that he/she is unfriendly and doesn't show his/her feelings or emotionals.
-Geneticaly engineered: This food hasn't got a change in their composition.
-Geneticaly modified: This food has a change in their composition.
-Geneticaly modified organisel: Like GM. this food has a change.
-Packed like sardines: To describe people in a very crowded space.
-Like a duck to water: It means that you discover, when you start doing a new activity, that you are very good.
-If you blow your own trumpet: you one boasting about your achievements and abilities.
-If you have a bee in your bonet about something you are obssessed with it and can't stop thinking about it.
-It's in someone's genes when that person has the some personality traits as their parents, or does a similiar job.
-You scratch my back and i'll scratch yours:  means if you do something for me, i'll do something for you specially if it is something you would not have been able to do for yourself.
-If you say someone does not have a hair out of place: It means, their appearance is very, tidy or is perfect.

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