Idioms - advice

easy as pie

• a person's special burden

• refers to the idea of a person who has no idea what they are doing guiding another

• something that is really easy to complete

Break a leg

• Used to wish someone, such as an actor, success in a performance

• a person's special burden

• something that is really easy to complete

It’s raining cats and dogs

• for a person who gives advice and instructions about what he or she is not responsible for

• To rain very heavily

• something that is really easy to complete

Don’t be a back seat driver

• for a person who gives advice and instructions about what he or she is not responsible for

• to be unhappy

• Used to wish someone, such as an actor, success in a performance

Don’t be in the dumps

• to be unhappy

•  very clumsy creature in a delicate situation

• a bad day in general

That boy is in the dog house

• In trouble for an action that that person has done that is wrong

•  refers to the idea of a person who has no idea what they are doing guiding another

• To be in great shape

That athlete is as fit as a fiddle

•  for a person who gives advice and instructions about what he or she is not responsible for

•  to be unhappy about what cannot be undone

• To be in great shape

 Don’t cry over spilled milk

• to be irritating and a general annoyance to people around

•  to be unhappy about what cannot be undone

• to be unhappy

My friend is a pain in the neck

• to be irritating and a general annoyance to people around

• refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image

• very clumsy creature in a delicate situation

A picture paints a thousand words

• for a person who gives advice and instructions about what he or she is not responsible for

• refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image

•  refers to something or someone that one cherishes above all others