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Vocabulary: idioms-a few vegetals 1/2 - English lesson
Here are some more idioms: they will all deal with vegetals (different fruits, grass and lawn, ill weeds and hay!
1) First, apples!
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The apple of my eye = a very precious thing | It's as easy as apple-pie = extremely easy |
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A room in apple-pie order = Very tidy | The Big Apple = New York City |
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A rotten apple= a black sheep= somebody different | There's a bad apple in every basket = Not everyone is good... |
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree = You take after your parents... | An apple a day keeps the doctor away = an apple is the token of good health |
2) Peaches, plums, grapes, gooseberrie (Yuk! ), grass and lawn, ill weeds... and hay!
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She's a peach!= She's a very beautiful girl! | It's a peach!= Wow! It's GREAT! |
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He has a plum in his mouth = He speaks in a snobbish way. | A plum job= An exceptional job |
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They're sour grapes, as the fox says= These grapes are bad, said the fox! (not big enough to catch them!) | The grapevine= gossip |
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... found under a gooseberry bush = babies are supposed to be found there. | To feel like a gooseberry = to feel useless | To play gooseberry= to be the third wheel |
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To lead someone up/down the garden path= To pull somebody's leg
| He's green as grass = To be inexperienced, pure and non corrupt. | You could hear the grass grow = There was no noise at all |
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To grow like a weed = to grow very fast | Ill weeds grow apace = Weeds row faster than grass! | To pull weeds = to throw weeds away |
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Hay fever = an allergy to pollens | To hit the hay= To go to bed | To find a needle in a haystack= a difficult thing to find |
There you are! You have many expressions to learn, and they're not always what we'd have expected. Good luck for a wonderful success.

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