|
idiom |
meaning |
example sentence |
| apple of one’s eye | valakinek a szeme fénye | Baby Jessica is the apple of her father’s eye. |
| (have a) bun in the oven | terhes, várandós | I don’t think Jan will come to the bar because she has a bun in the oven. |
| bad egg | olyan személy, aki gyakran kerül bajba | I don’t want my little brother hanging around with the bad eggs on the street. |
| bread and butter | alapszükségletek | Just explain the bread and butter of your report. You don’t have to go into details. |
| bring home the bacon | pénzt keresni (a családban) | My husband has had to bring home the bacon ever since I broke my leg. |
| butter someone up | valakihez nagyon kedvesnek lenni, lekenyerezni | We’ll have to butter Angie up before we tell her the news about the broken vase. |
| cool as a cucumber | nagyon nyugodt, cool | I thought I was afraid of flying, but I was cool as a cucumber all the way to England. |
| cream of the crop | a krémje valaminek, a legjobbja | We hired the cream of the crop to entertain us at the Christmas party. |
| (not my) cup of tea | nem az én világom | Opera isn’t exactly my cup of tea. |
| egg someone on | sürgetni valakit | The gang tried to egg us on but we didn’t want to fight. |
| freeze one’s buns off | szétfagyni | I froze my buns off at the ice rink. |
| full of beans | tele van energiával | The kids were full of beans after the circus. |
| gravy train | sok pénz kevés munkáért | The unionized grocers have been enjoying the gravy train for twenty years. |
| hard nut to crack | kemény dió, nehéz megérteni | Angelo is a hard nut to crack when something is bothering him like this. |
| hot potato | nehéz ügy | Choosing a location for our new store is a hot potato right now. |
| in a nutshell | dióhéjban, röviden | In a nutshell, I’m having a bad day. |
| peach fuzz | egy kis pihe | Except for a bit of peach fuzz, the baby came out bald. |
| piece of cake | nagyon könnyű | The exam was a piece of cake. |
| put all of ones eggs in one basket | mindent egy lapra tenni fel | Even though I’m majoring in Art, I’m taking a maths course because my Dad says I shouldn’t put all of my eggs in one basket. |
| souped up | felturbózva lenni | The car was souped up with shiny rims and a loud stereo. |
| sell like hot cakes | veszik, mint a cukrot | The new Harry Potter books sold like hot cakes. |
| spice things up | feldobni, jobbá, izgalmasabbá tenni valamit | I wanted to spice things up in the office, so I bought some red and gold paint. |
| take something with a pinch (grain) of salt | nem venni készpénznek valamit | Take Mandy’s advice with a pinch of salt. She doesn’t always do her research. |
