GLOSSARY UNIT 1 ENGLISH

-TO BE AS EASY AS PIE: if something is very easy.

-TO BE PIE-EYED: if someone is very drunk.

-TO HAVE A FINGER IN MANY PIES: to be involved in lots of different activities.

-TO BE A BAD EGG: if someone bad or dishonest.

-TO PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: to have only one option or plan.

-TO GET EGG ON YOUR FACE: if someone make an embarrassing mistake.

-TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS: to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.

-TO KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER: to manage to survive not having much money, time or things like that.

-TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: Two people working together are more likely to solve a problem than one     person doing it alone.

-TO DROPE WEIGHT: to lose weight.

-TO PURGE: to vomit voluntarily. Normally is relationated with people that have anorexia o bullimia.

-TO DO SOMETHING COMPULSIVELY: to do sth. without thinking and continuously.

-TO FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEPS: to do the same as you.

-TO BE FULL OF BEANS: to be full of energy.

-TO SPILL THE BEANS: to tell someone, something secret.

-TO HAVE NOT GOT A BEAN: to have not got money.

-TO BE A HOT POTATOE: to be a delicate issue.

-TO BE LIKE TWO BEANS IN A POD: to look like very similar.

-TO BE NOT YOU CUP OF TEA: to do not like much a sport, person, type of music or things like that.

-I WOULDN´T DO IT FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA: If you don´t want to do something and you will never do it.

-TO BE AS GOOD AS A CHOCOLATE TEAPOT: to be completely useless.

-TO BE PLENTY MORE FISH IN THE SEA: to be other choices in a situation.

-TO BE THE ICING ON THE CAKE: to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally better.

-TO BE JUST NOT CRICKET: to do something unfair or dishonest.

-TO TOY WITH: to play with somebody´s feelings seriously.

-TO BE A TOYBOY: to be younger than your girlfriend.

-TO BE LIKE A TON OF BRICKS: to be very heavy.

-TO FLY THE NEST: to leave your parent´s home for the first time.

-TO HAVE A NEST EGG: to have an amount of money saved for the future.

- I WASN´T BORN YESTERDAY: if someone knows that you are cheating him or her.

-TO HAVE A WHALE OF TIME: to have a lot of fun.

-TO BE THE SIZE OF A WHALE: to be large and overweight.

-TO BE GONE BANANAS: to act in a crazy way.

-TO HAVE A SECOND BITE OF THE CHERRY: to have a second opportunity.

-TO LIE BY OMISSION: to lie by not telling all the truth.

-TO TAKE SOMETHING WITH A PINCH OF SALT: to be very careful with something.

-TO BE THE BIG CHEESE: to be the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.

-TO BE CHALK AND CHEESE: that two persons are very different to each other.

-A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME: if someone knows something, that you didn´t tell to him or her.

-TO BE OR TO HAVE A BIG MOUTH: to talk too much, specially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.

-TO BE ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW: to be very colourful.

-TO PLAY WITH FIRE: to do something which could be dangerous.

-TO ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE: to make a bad situation even worse.

-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.