Zabawne idiomy/wyrażenia w języku angielskim.

Czy są słowa/wyrażenia w języku angielskim, które wywołują Twój uśmiech na twarzy? Oto moja lista:

1. As cool as a cucumber – very calm (opanowany). “He walked in as cool as a cucumber, as if nothing had happened”.

2. Hold your horses – used to tell someone to stop and consider carefully their decision or opinion about something: (chwila, moment, wyluzuj, spokojnie, hola) “Just hold your horses, John! Let’s think about this for a moment”.

3. Pigs might fly – said when you think that there is no chance at all of something happening ( jak mi kaktus na dłoni wyrośnie (o czymś niemożliwym), prędzej mi kaktus wyrośnie)
“I’ll have finished it by tomorrow.” “And pigs might fly!”

4. Chew the fat – to talk with someone in an informal and friendly way (gadać, prowadzić luźną rozmowę). “We sat in a bar most of the evening just chewing the fat”.

5. Cut the cheese – fart (puścić bąka). “Who cut the cheese?”

6. Elvis has left the building – The show has come to an end. It’s all over (przedstawienie się skończyło). “What are you waiting for now? Elvis has left the building”.

7. Running around like a headless chicken – to be very busy doing a lot of things, but in a way that is not very effective (biegać jak szalony). “He is such a disorganised fellow, always running around like a headless chicken before very major presentation”.

8. Turn turtle –  turn upside down (wywrócić się do góry dnem). “The sail boat turned turtle, but the sailors only got wet. The car ran off the road and turned turtle in the ditch”.

9. Pie in the sky – something that you hope will happen but is very unlikely to happen (zamki na piasku, zamki na lodzie, gruszki na wierzbie). “Their plans to set up their own business are just pie in the sky”.

10. Wet behind the ears – to be young and without experience (mieć mleko pod nosem) “John was just out of university, with a shapely haircut of medium length that failed to hide the fact that he was wet behind the ears”.

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