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Easter Idioms – Pascha or Resurrection Sunday Holiday
A happy bunny
Satisfied person or animal
A good egg
Good guy or a kind person
To put all your eggs in one basket
Do not concentrate all efforts and resources in one area
To egg someone on
To encourage someone to do something foolish
To walk or tread on egg shells
To try very hard not to upset someone
A chicken and egg situation
It is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one
Pull a rabbit out of the hat
To solve a problem by doing something very clever and unexpected.
A heavy cross to bear
To have a difficult responsibility that must be handled on one’s own
To be a doubting Thomas
A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience
Funny Christmas Related Idioms
Christmas comes but once a year
Use this opportunity to enjoy yourself to the fullest.
White Christmas
A Christmas day with a snow
Good things come in small packages
Something does not to be big in order to be good
The more the merrier
More people will make something more enjoyable
Thanksgiving Idioms
I’m stuffed.
Eat too much food
Go cold turkey
Fast but unpleasant method of stopping an addictive habit
Count your blessings
To be grateful for the good things in your life
A blessing in disguise
Bad or unlucky but is actually good
Talk turkey
Talk honestly and directly
A Mixed Blessing
A situation that has disadvantages as well as advantages
Gobble Up
To eat something in its entirety very quickly
The Rest Is Gravy
Very easy and straightforward to complete
A gravy train
An easy way of earning a lot of money
Food coma
Feeling of sleepiness experienced after eating too much food
Happy Thanksgiving!
What’s ‘Big fish in a small pond’?
— Satisfying Daily (@SatisfyingDaily) August 30, 2018
The phrases are often used to convey the degree of ambition a person holds.
Those with wider ambitions swim among the more numerous but relatively less influential ‘small fish’.
What does “like herding cats” mean?
The phrase herding cats comes from the common saying that something involving coordination of many different groups or people is as difficult as herding cats.
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— Puppie🐶 (@popularpuppies) August 21, 2018
An idiom denoting a futile attempt to control or organize a class of entities which are inherently uncontrollable – as in the difficulty of attempting to command a large number of cats into a group (herd).
Idiom: Mumbo Jumbo
Nonsense or meaningless speech.
Unnecessarily involved and incomprehensible language.
Idiom: Loose Cannon
Loose Cannon:
Someone who is unpredictable and can cause damage if not kept in check.
