ACTIVIDAD: EXPRESIONES IDIOMTICAS

IDIOM

1. Cool as a cucumber
Martha is always as cool as a cucumber and
never worries about anything.
2. Cream of the crop
The hospital is well known as a good place to
work and is always able to hire the cream of
the crop of international doctors.
3. Cry over spilt milk
They cry over spilt milk. The past is past and
they cant do anything to change it.
4. Bring home the bacon
Recently Daniel has been working very hard
trying to bring home the bacon.
5. Piece of cake
This activity is piece of cake. We are about to
finish.

MEANING

_____ Feel energetic, in high spirits.

_____ Cry or complain about something that

has already happened.

_____ Someone or something that one likes a

lot.
_____ Best of a group, the top choice.

_____ Tell a secret to someone who is not

supposed to know about it.

6. Apple of ones eye.

_____ A bad person, bum.
The
little boy
is
the
apple
of
his grandfathers eye.
7. Full of beans
_____ Earn your family's living.
Ricardo and Ernesto are full of beans tonight
and dont want to stop exercising.
8. Spill the beans
_____ Sell quickly or rapidly.
Please dont spill the beans about his plans
for next year.
9. Bad egg
_1_ Calm, not nervous or anxious.
That man is not a bad egg. You can talk to
him.
10. Sell like hotcakes
_____ A task that is easily accomplished.
The new James Bond movie has only been
released for about two days, and the movie
theaters are selling tickets like hotcakes!
11. Take with a grain of
salt _____ Accept or believe only part of
You should take everything that he says with something
a grain of salt as everyone knows that he
likes to exaggerate things when he is
speaking.

ACTIVIDAD: EXPRESIONES IDIOMTICAS

IDIOM

1. Cool as a cucumber
Martha is always as cool as a cucumber and
never worries about anything.
2. Cream of the crop
The hospital is well known as a good place to
work and is always able to hire the cream of
the crop of international doctors.
3. Cry over spilt milk
They cry over spilt milk. The past is past and
they cant do anything to change it.
4. Bring home the bacon
Recently Daniel has been working very hard
trying to bring home the bacon.
5. Piece of cake
This activity is piece of cake. We are about to
finish.

MEANING

_____ Feel energetic, in high spirits.

_____ Cry or complain about something that

has already happened.

_____ Someone or something that one likes a

lot.
_____ Best of a group, the top choice.

_____ Tell a secret to someone who is not

supposed to know about it.

6. Apple of ones eye.

_____ A bad person, bum.
The
little boy
is
the
apple
of
his grandfathers eye.
7. Full of beans
_____ Earn your family's living.
Ricardo and Ernesto are full of beans tonight
and dont want to stop exercising.
8. Spill the beans
_____ Sell quickly or rapidly.
Please dont spill the beans about his plans
for next year.
9. Bad egg
_1_ Calm, not nervous or anxious.
That man is not a bad egg. You can talk to
him.
10. Sell like hotcakes
_____ A task that is easily accomplished.
The new James Bond movie has only been
released for about two days, and the movie
theaters are selling tickets like hotcakes!
11. Take with a grain of
salt _____ Accept or believe only part of
You should take everything that he says with something
a grain of salt as everyone knows that he
likes to exaggerate things when he is
speaking.