ENGLISH GOLSSARY

Glossary
Unit one

 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 or more people work together, they’re more likely to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.

 To keep your head above water: Means that you are just trying to survive despite not, having much money.

To shit: To make your physical necessities.

 It’s as easy as pie: If something is very easy.

  Pie-eyed: If someone is very drunk.

To have a finger in many eyes: It means you are involved in lots of different activities.

 Junk food: Fast food.

 A bad egg: If we want to say that someone is bad or dishonest.

Don’t pull all your eggs in one basket: You should never rely on only one plan it goes wrong.

 He got eggs on his face: If someone makes a mistake, which makes him/her look stupid, we use this expression.

 Self-esteem: When you’re self-confident.

  Dropped (Weight): When you have lost weight.

  Purging: When you make yourself vomit.

   Compulsively: When you do a thing, and you can’t help it.

  Long term effects: Consequences in a long period of time.

 Short term effects: Consequences in a short period of time.

Follow in your footsteps: Want to be like someone.

 Full of beans: If someone is full of beans means that he is full of energy.

 I don’t have a bean: Means that you have no money at all.

Spill the beans: If someone wants to tell us something secret, we can say to them “spill the beans”.

 It’s a hot potato: If there’s a delicate issue and people can’t agree, we call it “a hot potato”.

They are like two peas in a pod: If two people look very similar, we use this expression.

 It’s not my cup of tea: If there’s something we don’t like too 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 chocolate teapot: If something is complete useless we use this expression.

He’s gone bananas: If someone gets very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way we can say this expression.

It’s a case of sour grapes: If somebody pretends not to be impressed by something because she/he feels jealous.

A second bite of the cherry: If we try to do something a second time because we failed out first, we use this expression.

To be in a good mood: When you are happy.

Raw: Food that isn’t done, like sushi.

 There are plenty more fish in the sea: It means that there are other choices in a situation. It’s often said to comfort someone who had a romantic break up.

The icing in the cake: It is used 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 is unfair or dishonest.

To toy with (Somebody or something): Means no to take someone’s feelings seriously.

A toyboy: Is the younger 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 a great surprise or someone that is overweight)

To fly the nest: Means to leave your parents’ home for the first time to go and live somewhere else.

A nest egg: Is an amount of money you have saved in the future.

I wasn’t born yesterday: If someone is telling you a very obvious lie, you can use this expression.

To have a whale of time: Means to have a lot of fun while doing something.

Size of a whale: It is an impolite way of saying they are large and overweight.

GE: Genetically engineered (Food natural and organic)

GM: Genetically modified (Food changed)

GMO: Genetically modified organism (Organism of food change)

 Mug: Like a cuppa.

Factual: Realistic.

Tarots readers: Someone who reads the future.

 Omission: When you are not telling all the truth.

 Banned: Not allow.

Take it with a pinch of salt: Doing something slowly and carefully. 
       
    UNit two

The big cheese: Is the most important or powerful person in a group of organization.

Chalk and cheese: We use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.

A little bird 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 you talk too much especially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.

All the colors of the rainbow: It means it’s very colorful.

Chasing rainbows: Refers to someone who is always looking for something more exciting rewarding but it is unlike to find it.

If you are playing with fire: You are doing something which could be dangerous.

If you add field to the fire: If you make a bad situation even worse.

Blow your own trumpet: You are bursting about your achievements and abilities.

Have a bee in your bonnet: You are obsessed with something and you can’t stop thinking about it.

It’s in someone’s genes: When that person has the same personality traits as their parents, or does a similar job.

You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours: Means if you do something for me, I’ll do something for you especially if it’s something you wouldn’t 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.

Per capita: Per person.

Cattle station: Where the cattle resides.

Methane: a colorless odorless flammable gas, the simplest alkane and the main constituent of natural gas.

Smog: a mixture of smoke, fog, and chemical fumes.

Lost for words: You cannot speak because you are shocked.

Coal: a combustible compact black or dark-brown carbonaceous rock formed from compaction of layers of partially decomposed vegetation.

Sail: Like sand.

If you have a flash of inspiration: It means that you get a sudden idea that helps you create or achieve what you were 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 has a lot of influence but only in a small area or group.

Cold fish: If someone is described with this expression it means that he/she is unfriendly and doesn’t show his/her feelings or emotions.

Cans: Tins.

Packed like sardines: To describe people in a crowed space.

Chock a block: The streets are chock a block with cars.

Like a duck to water: It means that you discover when you start doing something new, that you are very good at it.