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Vocabulary: idioms-a few vegetals 1/2

Here are some more idioms: they will all deal with vegetals (different fruits, grass and lawn, ill weeds and hay!

1) First, apples!


The apple of my eye = a very precious thing	It's as easy as apple-pie = extremely easy

A room in apple-pie order = Very tidy	The Big Apple = New York City

A rotten apple= a black sheep= somebody different	There's a bad apple in every basket = Not everyone is good...

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!


She's a peach!= She's a very beautiful girl!	It's a peach!= Wow! It's GREAT!

He has a plum in his mouth = He speaks in a snobbish way.	A plum job= An exceptional job

They're sour grapes, as the fox says= These grapes are bad, said the fox! (not big enough to catch them!)	The grapevine= gossip


... 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

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

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

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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1. Tidy up your room, Lucy! Until it is , you won't be allowed to play.

2. Of course the girl is stubborn.... When you know her father, you understand she couldn't be different.

3. Yes, I knew about it , took some tests and got the job.

4. I warmly recommend spending time in this place! Really, !

5. No! I won't hang out with the two of you! You're kidding! Who'd wish to ?

6. No illusions for me. This success is for me, so unreachable just now...

7. Oh dear! My allergies again... I wish I didn't have ... It's so annoying.

8. You shouldn't have in such a way... He's mad at you!

9. Of course, I like , but I much prefer the Windy City.

10. He's so snobbish... When he speaks, you'd think he in his mouth, but he doesn't.

11. I knew you could do without me. , just now.

12. Lucy, it's really time you , now... Wake up time is 7 tomorrow!

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