This phrase comes from the fact that things that grow on trees are usually easy to pick but money is not in the same league. Parents often say this to their children to make them aware of the issues they face in putting food on the table. The phrase may have originated in the late 19th century although no literary origin could be traced with accuracy.
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1. Listen to your parents and appreciate their hard work because they're right, money doesn't grow on trees. 2. I have been told over and over again as a child that money doesn't grow on trees. 3. His kids probably don't know that money doesn't grow on trees seeing how much he pampers them with expensive toys and gifts.
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A fool and his money are soon parted - 어리석은 이는 돈을 오래 지니고 있지 못하는 법이다.
This phrase refers to the short life span of a fly, and also to the fact that they die in large numbers if someone decides to kill them. The earliest printed occurrence is found in the newspaper The Atlanta Constitution in May 1902.
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1. It was flu season and people in our office were dropping like flies. 2. In the beginning, a lot of people signed up for the health program, but after a few months they started dropping like flies. 3. This summer was excruciating. The heat was unbearable and people were dropping like flies.
It is supposed to be originated in America and the oldest written records of the phrase can be traced from 1870s. For example in a book named 'Western Wilds, and the Men Who Redeem Them' written by John Hanson Beadle which is originally published in the 1877.
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1. Do whatever you can, but don't bite off more than you chew.
2. By accepting two part-time jobs, he is clearly biting off more than he can chew.
3. It feels like I bit off more than I could chew when I promised to complete this worksheet in one day.
It alludes to tiny peas in a pod which, more or less all look the same in size, color. They are also packed into the pod very tightly so; this idiom is also used to suggest two or more people being close or inseparable.
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1. Those boys could be twins. They are like two peas in a pod. 2. Just like their mamas, the two boys hit it off like two peas in a pod. 3. Relationship and compromise are like two peas in a pod.
Taken literally, this idiom means to blow air (oxygen) onto the fire to increase the intensity of the flames. Just as the wind makes forest fires worse. It was used by Dickens in the mid-1800s in The Old Curiosity Shop.
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1. The pandemic has fanned the flames of hate among communities. 2. She had fancied Karl for ages, and when he smiled at her, he fanned the flames even more. 3. I believe the political leader is fanning the flames of racial unrest.
it is quite an old expression. One of the earliest examples can be found in a poem called “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”written by Christopher Marlowe (also known as Kit Marlowe), published in 1599 after the death of the author. “And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle”
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1. The corrupt leaders have made their life a bed of roses with the help of black money. 2. Making money is not a bed of roses, so wake up early and go to work. 3. She found that taking care of old parents was not a bed of roses.
It is believed that this phrase wasinvented in the 1870s during slavery inthe southern states of America. As part ofa dance or celebration organized by slaveowners, black slaves would compete incake walksperforming a dance whichimitated and subtly mocked the elaborateand ostentatious gestures of the whiteslave owners. The most elegantcouple/team would be given a cake as anaward. It seems that the white slaveowners didn't understand that they werebeing mocked in these elaborate cakewalkdances, and took great delight inwatching their slavesemulating their refined behavior. The piece of cake that was awarded as the prize to the best couple/team, came to be known among the blacks as something very easy to obtain.
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1. Don't worry, Sophie. This job interview will be a piece of cake for you. You have all the skills they need and I think you're absolutely the best candidate. 2. They said the test would be difficult, but it was a piece of cake. I'll pass with no problem at all. 3. Don't think that this term's work will be a piece of cake. You'll have to study hard to get good grades.
The concept behind the origination of this idiom is second but rare appearance of the full moon in same month. Blue moon is the full moon that appears second time in same calendar month and this phenomenon happens only once in 32 months. Apart from that, sometime the full moon appears to be different in color especially blue and orange and bigger in size. This idiomatic expression is in use since 1800s.
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1. I don't know why she bought that music system. She uses it once in a blue moon. 2. I think my grandson doesn't love me anymore, he comes to see me only once in a blue moon. 3. Although I trust in God, I visit that famous temple only once in a blue moon.
