Москва, 717 школа, 8 класс, spotlight-8, module 2d "idioms"

Учим идиомы

Москва, школа 717, 8 класс

Tatyana ChitlovaEkaterina Petrova

Anna KulikovaEkaterina Ignatova

Idioms

Spill the beans -- to tell someone a secret

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Examples Somebody spilled the beans about the surprise party.

Please don't spill the beans and tell my secret to anyone.

We are organizing a surprise party for him so we don’t spill the beans.

Come on, spill the beans! We are sure you know real reasons why she’s so upset.

(not) be one’s cup of tea -something you (don’t) like very much

(не) то, что нужно

То, что нужно!

Well, juzz isn’t really my cup of tea, but I’ll come to your consert.

I can’t do without shopping. It is my cup of tea.

Thanks for inviting me, but opera isn’t my cup of tea.

Take everything with a pinch of salt --to doubt the truth or value of something

Не принимать всерьёз, ставить под сомнение

Examples

- А piece of cake -something that is very easy

Легко, пустяк

The exam was so easy. It was a piece of cake.

That job was a piece of cake.

After running a hotel, looking after a family is a piece of cake.

The interview was a piece of cake.

-It’s no use crying over spilt milk - you should not worry about something bad that has already

happend. To waste time feeling upset about something bad that has happened and cannot be changed.

Сожалеть о непоправимом

ExamplesIt is a shame you lost the match, but it is no use crying over spilt milk.

Don`t cry over spilt milk, it does not fix anything.

‘No use crying over spilt milk,’ she said.

You have wrecked the computer, but it’s no use crying over spilt milk. At least it was insured.