Week
04/03/2016
Wicker (mimbre) = made from straw
Loss leader = a product in a supermarket that
makes no profit but attracts customers
Marketing ploy = marketing technique
The icing on the cake = the final thing that
made something perfect
To sweeten the pill = to make something more
appetizing / (opposite) To be a bitter pill to swallow
Put all your eggs in one basket = To only
back/support one possibility/option
Have bigger fish to fry = have more important
things to do
Take something with a pinch of salt = to
understand that what you are hearing is not completely true
Spill the beans = Tell the truth
Sell like hot cakes = sell very well
Get egg on your face = to be proved wrong
Eat humble pie = To be proved wrong
Have a lot on your plate = Have a lot of things
to do
This government is sweetening the pill of
higher taxation by introducing new benefits for employees at the same time.
I’ve put all my eggs in one basket work-wise.
Harry got egg on his face when Professor
Samuels confronted him in the canteen queue.
Valentina isn’t staying on here as a student as
she has bigger fish to fry in the US, with a Harvard scholarship.
After the rugby team’s outstanding performance,
journalists will have to eat humble pie.
I finally got Simon to spill the beans about
his wedding.
Sharon has a lot on her plate at the moment.
Maria’s earrings are selling like hot cakes on
the market stall.
The best thing since sliced bread = the best
thing in a long time.
Allotment = a vegetable patch in a public area.
Bunch of bananas/grapes etc.
Genetically modified crops / GM crops
The outskirts
On a small/medium/large scale.
Mark Zuckerberg got egg on his face, since a
product which he described as useless and ridiculously expensive, in fact sold
like hot cakes after an excellent marketing ploy thought up by the company’s
head.
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