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English idioms: Food

IDIOM 1: 'bad egg '

-> MEANING: a bad person

-> EXAMPLE: That man is a bad egg so you should try and avoid him if you can.




IDIOM 2: 'cut the mustard'

-> MEANING: succeed, do adequately what
needs to be done

-> EXAMPLE: He wasn`t able to cut the mustard so he had to leave the army after only one year.




IDIOM 3: 'duck soup '

-> MEANING: a task that doesn't require much effort

-> EXAMPLE: It was duck soup.
I was able to finish everything early last night.





IDIOM 4: 'in the soup'

-> MEANING: in serious trouble, in disorder

-> EXAMPLE: She is really in the soup now. She told her boss that she was sick but he saw her downtown
shopping.






IDIOM 5: 'full of beans'

-> MEANING: feel energetic, in high spirits

-> EXAMPLE: She is full of beans tonight and doesn`t want to stop talking.

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bad egg 。。。

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