1.-To take the bull by the horns: Means to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.
2.-Two heads are better than one: Means that when two people work together they are more likely to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
3.-To keep your head above water: Means you are just managing to survive despite not having much money.
4.-Purging: To make your self vomit.
5.-Long term effects: Things that happend very quickly.
6.-Short term effects: Things that happend very slow.
7.-Follow in your foot steps: Means to want to be like a persons doing exacly the same things an actions.
8.-Full of beans: If someone is full of beans means that he is full of energy.
9.-I haven't got a bean: Means that you don't have mony at all.
10.-Spill the beans: If we want to tell us something secret, we can say to them "spill the beans"
11.-It's a hot potato: If there is a delicate issue and people can't agree we call it a hot potato.
12.-They're like two peas in a pod: If two people look very similar we use this expression.13.-There are plenty more fish in the sea: It means that there are other choices in a situation. It is often said to comfort someone who had a romatic break-up.
14.-The icing on the cake: It's used to refer to something good which is added to an already good thing or sitution.
15.-It's just not cricket: Is used to say that something is unfair or dishonest.
16.-To toy with (somebody or something): Means not to take someone's feelings seriously.
17.-A toyboy: Is the younguer boyfriend of an older person.
18.-Like a ton of briks: It's used to express something that is very heavy. This expression can be used literall (to describe a heavy weight) or idiomatically (to describe a great surprise or someone that is overwetght).
19.-To fly the nest: Means to leave your parents' home for the first time to go and live somewhere else.
20.-A nest egg: Is an amount of money you have saved in the future.
21.-I wasn't born yersterday: If someone is telling you a very obvious lie, you can use this expression.
22.-To have a whale of a time: Means to have a lot of fun while doing something.
23.-Size of a whale: It is an impolite way for saying they are large and overweight.
PIE
1.-It's as easy as pie: If something is very easy.
2.-Pie-eyed: If someone is very drunk.
3.-To have a finger in many pies: It means you are involved in lot of different activities.EGG
1.-A bad egg: In English if we want to say that someone is bad or dishonest we can him/her a bad egg.
2.-Don't pull all your eggs in one basket: You should never rely on only one plan in case ir't goes wrong.
3.-He got egg on his face: If someone makes a mistake which makes him/her looks stupid, we van say this expression.TEA
1.-It's not my cup of tea: If there's something we don't like much (a sport, a type of music, a person...) then, you use this expression.
2.-I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: We use this expression if there's something we would never do it.
3.-It's as good as a chocolate teapot: If something is completely useless we say this expression.
FRUIT
1.-He's gonne bananas: If someone is very emotionaland starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way we can say this expression.
2.-It's a case of sour grapes: If somebody oretends not to be impressed by something because she/he feels jealous we use this expression.
3.-A second bite of the cherry: If we try to do something a second time because we failed at first, we use this expression.
DEBATE
1.-Chairperson: Is the person who controls the debate.
2.-Adjudicator: Is the person who decides the winner.
3.-Time-keeper: Is the person who controls the time.
4.-Speakers: The people who speaks in the group.
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