This document discusses various common idioms in English: - "A piece of cake" means something is very easy to do - "As easy as ABC" and "as easy as pie" both describe tasks that are very simple - A "hard/tough nut to crack" refers to a difficult problem or person - A "ball of fire" is a person with great energy - "As busy as a bee" means to be very busy or active - "Have butterflies in your stomach" feels very nervous - "Raining cats and dogs" describes heavy rain - "Cost an arm and a leg" means something is very expensive - "Over the moon" means

1. Idioms

2. What are Idioms?
•Idioms are phrases and
sentences that do not
mean exactly what they
say.

3. • Something
very easy
to do

4. Examples
• The exam was a piece of cake.
• Glad to help. It was a piece of cake.
• Grammar is my specialty. It’s a piece
of cake.

5. "Easy as ABC"
An idiom which means Something that is as
easy as ABC is very easy or simple.

6. Examples
• Learning how to use a computer is as
easy as ABC for the children.
• Our 101 English course is as easy as
ABC.
• That exam was as easy as ABC.
.

8. As easy as pie
• It is used to describe a task or experience as
pleasurable and simple. The idiom does not
refer to the making of a pie, but rather to the
act of consuming a pie ("as easy as eating a
pie")

9. Examples:
• You make everything sound as easy
as pie, Lama.
• Setting up the printer was as easy as
pie.

11. A hard/tough nut (to crack)
• Meaning:
• A difficult problem or person
to deal with.

12. Examples:
• This assignment is a hard nut to
crack.
• It won't be easy getting mom’s
approval; she's a tough nut to
crack.

13. A ball of fire

14. A ball of fire
Meaning:
A person with great energy

15. • Examples:
• The trainer will have to be a ball
of fire to get this football team to
play well.
• I hope Linda joins our group ;
she's a real ball of fire.

17. Meaning:
to be very busy or very active
Example:
• She's as busy as a bee, always going
to meetings and organizing parties.

22. Have butterflies in one’s stomach
• Meaning:
•Feel very nervous

23. • I had butterflies in my stomach
when I went to see the dentist.
• I had butterflies in my stomach
during my first few days at
college.

27. Examples:
• "The weather was horrible on Saturday.
It was raining cats and dogs all day.”
• "It's really awful weather outside.
It's windy and is raining cats and dogs."

29. cost
(somebody)
an arm and
a leg

30. Meaning:
to be very expensive
• Example:
• These opera tickets cost us an
arm and a leg!

31. His new car cost him an arm and a leg.

34. Meaning:
Very happy or delighted.
Examples:
• "He was over the moon when he
heard the news.”
• She was over the moon with her new
mobile.