Idioms about Eggs
Posted by thecrazyteacher on aprile 3, 2015
(Thanks to english.lingolia.com)
Idiom |
Explanation |
Example |
|---|---|---|
have egg on your face |
look silly |
Are you sure about this? I don’t want to say the wrong thing and have egg on my face in front of the whole class. |
put all your eggs in one basket |
risk everything (money, effort, time) on one thing |
You should apply to more than one college. You don’t want to put your eggs in one basket. What if you don’t get accepted? |
teach your grandmother to suck eggs |
teach somebody something that they already know |
I don’t know why explaining natural selection to me. I got an A+ on that assignment. It’s like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. |
walk on eggshells |
be extremely cautious not to upset somebody |
My sister-in-law is very sensitive and the whole family has to walk on eggshells around her. |