Click here to go back to the homepage to learn English...
Please log in!


Remember me
I've lost my password


2 million accounts created!
JOIN our free club and learn English now!

  • Home
  • Print
  • Guestbook
  • Report a bug



    • GREAT!
    Get a free English lesson every week! Almost 2 MILLION subscribers!
    Click here!

         Recommended:
    > Language Resources
    > Sites for teachers
    > Other sites for teachers
    > English translator


    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #77: Idioms: food
    > Other English exercises on the same topics: Idioms | Food [Change theme]
    > Similar tests: - Food and restaurant - Eating out-Vocabulary - Kitchen-vocabulary - Fruits and vegetables - Cooking : Verbs-adjectives - Food and drink - Food - Cooking
    > Double-click on words you don't understand


    Idioms: food



    Learn English

    ENGLISH IDIOMS: FOOD

     

    IDIOM 1: "eat crow"
    -> MEANING: admit one is mistaken or defeated, take back a mistaken statement
    -> EXAMPLE: I was forced to eat crow and had to apologize for the mistake that I made about the restructuring of our company.

     

    IDIOM 2: "hot potato "
    -> MEANING: a question or argument that is controversial and difficult to settle
    -> EXAMPLE: The issue of building the nuclear power plant is a real hot potato for the local town council.

     

    IDIOM 3: "piece of cake"
    -> MEANING: a task that is easily accomplished
    -> EXAMPLE: It was a piece of cake. I had everything done before lunch this morning.

     

    IDIOM 4: "cool as a cucumber"
    -> MEANING: calm, not nervous or anxious
    -> EXAMPLE: He is always as cool as a cucumber and never worries about anything.


    IDIOM 5: "big cheese "
    -> MEANING: an important person, a leader
    -> EXAMPLE: He is a big cheese in his company so you should be very nice to him.





    English exercise "Idioms: food" created by webmaster with The test builder
    Click here to see the current stats of this English test [Save] [Load] [?]


    1. 'Have you met the new ? He said he would change everything in the company!'
    2. 'OK. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I must and tell Peter that he was right.'
    3. 'This exercise is . Even my little sister could do it!'
    4. 'Peter is always . He always solves his problems easily.'
    5. 'Are you for or against the death penalty? It is a difficult problem. It has always been a '.







    End of the free exercise to learn English: Idioms: food
    A free English exercise to learn English.
    Other English exercises on the same topics : Idioms | Food | All our lessons and exercises

    TOP