{"id":18,"date":"2017-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/log.cudoo.com\/2018\/03\/11\/idioms-are-just-a-piece-of-cake\/"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:36:53","slug":"idioms-are-just-a-piece-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/idioms-are-just-a-piece-of-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms Are Just a Piece of Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must be wondering what exactly I am talking about here. Many questions arise in your mind such as, \u2018Are idioms a type of cake? Or what does idiom even mean?\u2019 Here I will explain to you what are idioms and after reading this article you would definitely agree with me saying \u201cIdioms are actually a piece of cake.\u201d<!--more--><br \/>\nTo begin with, the exact meaning of an idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. I will show you some examples of idioms and how each of them is used in a sentence.<\/p>\n<h2>1) Best of both worlds<\/h2>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Meaning:<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> A situation in which you can enjoy the advantages of two very different things at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> She wanted to become a doctor but she wasn\u2019t ready to leave her family and stay in a hostel. She couldn\u2019t get the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<h2>2) Speak of the devil<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> A reference to someone who appears unexpectedly while being talked about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDid you see Diana today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, here she is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, speak of the devil!\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>3) Wing it<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> To do something with no preparation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> I was out last night partying with my friends, so the quiz today, I had to just wing it.<\/p>\n<h2>4) So done with<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Frustrated and bored by something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> I am so done with studying physics all day.<\/p>\n<h2>5) Once in a blue moon<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Very rarely<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> My younger brother would study chemistry only once in a blue moon.<\/p>\n<h2>6) A piece of cake<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Something that is very easily achieved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> \u201cThe exam was a piece of cake.\u201d I told my mom.<\/p>\n<h2>7) See eye to eye<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> To be in full agreement with someone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> My co-workers and I, not always see eye to eye.<\/p>\n<h2>8) To kill two birds with one stone<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Achieve two aims at once<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> Walking to work kills two birds with one stone. Saves cost of traveling and give you some exercise as well.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">9) When pigs fly<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Something that will never happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> I think he might apologize to you when pigs fly.<\/p>\n<h2>10) It beats me<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Is used when you don\u2019t understand a situation or someone\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> It beats me how she passed her exams without even touching her books for the whole year!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"bottom-cta\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must be wondering what exactly I am talking about here. Many questions arise in your mind such as, \u2018Are idioms a type of cake? Or what does idiom even mean?\u2019 Here I will explain to you what are idioms and after reading this article you would definitely agree with me saying \u201cIdioms are actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3076,5204,3075],"yst_prominent_words":[3638,880,3632,1453,3635,173,3428,3631,1434,1449,3637,3074,763,3633,3629,684,268,3630,3636,3634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}