IDIOMS

What does it mean to say: "It's raining cats and dogs!"?

• Cats and dogs are falling from the sky.

  
  

• It's raining very heavily.

  
  

• We are having a tornado.

  
  

• Animals have learned to fly.

  
  

What is an idiom?

• A language

• A device used to confuse the reader.

• A word or phrase that does not mean what it says.

• A group of words that begin with the same sound.

What does it really mean? "It's a piece of cake."

• Something is easy.

• Something is delicious.

• Something is soft and warm. 

• Don't eat more than one piece!

What does it really mean: "There are butterflies in my stomach!"

• I'm sad.

• I'm loving.

• I'm happy.

• I'm nervous.

What does it really mean? "A leopard can't change its spots." 

• Leopards don't like their spots. 

• Leopards can't move around. 

• All leopards look the same.

• You can't change who you are. 

When my friend won the lottery, she was on cloud nine.  "On cloud nine" means...

• Flying in a plane

• Very happy

• Not satisfied with the amount

• Sitting on a cloud

"Carla put her foot in her mouth" really means...

• Carla takes yoga classes.

• She said something embarrassing.

• Carla ate a snack.

• She is very flexible.

In the heat of the moment.

• Na hora e no lugar certo.

• No calor do momento.

• Na mosca!

Filho de peixe, peixinho é.

• Fish's son, fish is.

• No doubt about being the father's son.

• The apple never falls far from the three.

Não fica de enrolação.

• Don't stay enrolation.

• Don't beat around the bush.

• Go for what matters.