His new job pays chicken feed so that’s why he’s looking for another one.. Today I am happy as a lark because summer vacation starts today!. He’s such a bird brain!. A bird in the hand…i
Trang 1His new job pays chicken feed so that’s why he’s looking for another one You can’t live on so little money.
They say: Birds of a feather
flock together The same people
hang out with the same kind of people.
My summer is going to be a
great one I’m as free as a
bird- I can do whatever I
want.
Oh you lucky duck! You get to go
to Euro Disney this summer Jason was going to ask out the
most popular girl in the school, but he chickened out What a coward!
I’m going to buy a Ferrari and then a villa with the money I win from the lottery Oh you better wait Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
Today I am happy as a lark
because summer vacation starts today!
I never go to bed before
midnight I’m a real night
owl I love staying up late.
He’s such a bird brain! He can never remember to bring his English book to school.
When you’re in a plane, you
get a bird’s eye view of
the land.
Boy, are you a dead duck! You’ve failed all your history tests and now you won’t pass the course,
Maybe you should take that job A bird in the hand…is worth 2 in the bush You might not get another offer.
His father is an early bird He gets up before sunrise every morning
Even on weekends.
Don’t be such a
chicken! Go ahead jump
off the high diving
when his daughter won an Olympic medal.
My math test was duck soup !
I got an A+!
He’s such an odd duck
He does and says very strange things.
How did you know I got into trouble at
school, Mom? A little bird told
me
She’s so skinny! That’s because she eats like a bird.
That new Shrek movie was really for the birds So boring!
Trang 2List of Idioms and Definitions
1 Duck soup- something that is really easy
2 A little bird told me Usually this is what a mother tells a child when she is
speaking about something naughty that he/she has done.
3 A bird’s eye view- a view from up high- like from an airplane- how a bird
would see the earth.
4 A bird brain- a total idiot
5 Chicken feed- very little money
6 Eat like a bird- eat very little
7 Dead duck- you’re a goner or in big trouble
8 An odd duck- a very eccentric person
9 Happy as a lark- very happy
10 Free as a bird- no responsibilities- can really enjoy life
11 For the birds- no good, awful
12 Birds of a feather flock together A saying Like people hang out together or
do the same things.
13 Proud as a peacock- extremely proud
14 A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush Parable If you have something be
satisfied with that and don’t look for more- you might lose what you have.
15 A chicken- a coward
16 A night owl- someone who loves to stay up late.
17 An early bird- someone who is an early riser.
18 Don’t count your chickens before they hatch Don’t expect things to work
out the way you have planned or be a certain way before they even happen.
19 To chicken out- to be so afraid of doing something that at the last minute you
don’t do it.
20 Lucky duck- someone who is very lucky.