Spring idioms & proverbs




Easter has just passed but we still have wonderful Easter holidays, that's why I'm coming with the newest pack of  spring and Easter English idioms, which are very common and used on a daily basis not only at this time of year. My first post you will find here: Spring & easter idioms part 1 . And here is another selection:



#1

a happy bunny
means
someone who is happy with a situation

osoba zadowolona (z życia/sytuacji)

My sister has broken her leg and she's not a happy bunny because she can't go on a school trip.






#2

busy bee
means
someone who is always busy and hardworking

pracuś/pracowita pszczółka/mróweczka

I have never known such busy bee as Jake is! He is studying, working and helping his older parents.


Quotation from 'Gladiator':




#3


black sheep
means
a person who is not accepted in family or some group because is thought to behave badly

czarna owca


Julian is black sheep of his family - they have never accepted or understood his life choices. They have not even tried...






#4


You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs
means that

it is hard to achieve something important without giving something else up or without unpleasant side effects


Gdzie drwa rąbią, tam wióry lecą


I know that we may lose some of our employees but if we don't cut down salaries we'll go bankrupt. But you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs - we have to rescue our company.






Rhianna's dress looks like a huge omelette 😄

(2015 Met Gala)









#5


A chicken and egg situation
means
a situation where it's extremely hard to decide which of two connected events happened first and caused the other one


sytuacja, w której nie wiemy co stanowi przyczynę a co skutek/co bylo pierwsze:jajko czy kura?


It's a chicken and egg situation. Did he lose his job because he was drinking or he started drinking because he got unemployed?

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#6

To be like a rabbit (or deer) caught in the headlights
means
to look very surprised or frightened that you cannot move or speak


wyglądać jakby się zobaczyło ducha/zamrzeć z przerażenia


Jim was like a rabbit caught in the headlights when he saw his past love, that he hasn't seen for 15 years, standing in front of him.


The burglar was like a deer caught in the headlights when he heard the alarm.


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#7

To pull a rabbit out of the hat
means
to do something surprising - to show some surprising and unexpected solution to a problem or a fact which helps to find a solution


wyciągnąć królika z kapelusza


We were all so tired and disappointed after long meeting that we lost hope to find a solution which would help our company but then, suddenly,  Tom pulled a rabbit out of the hat and surprised us with an excellent idea.


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#8

The grass is always greener on the other side

This proverb is already on my blog 😎
Click the link to go on to this one and some other nice English idioms and proverbs that it's worth to know:


O tym przysłowiu już pisałam kiedyś na moim blogu. Znajdziesz je (a także wiele innych, które warto znać) pod tym linkiem:

The grass is always greener...




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Cheerio!

😘




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    Definition
    An idiom (also called idiomatic expression) is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning conventionally understood by native speakers. This meaning is different from the literal meaning of the idiom's individual elements. In other words, idioms don't mean exactly what the words say. They have, however, hidden meaning.

    Examples:
    "Kick the bucket"
    "Spill the beans"

    The meaning of these expressions is different from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which they are made. Their meaning are however used figuratively. They mean respectively:

    "to die "
    "to tell people secret information"

    Lists of idioms
    English has thousands of idioms. At theidioms.com there are lists of idioms arranged in alphabetical order or in different categories.

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