- Expressions (expressões) – Call it quits
- Expressions (expressões) – Get over it
- Expressions (Expressões) – Knock off
- Expressions (expressões) – Go Bananas
- Expressions (expressões) – Spill the Beans
- Expressions (expressões) – Ants in Your Pants
- Expressions (expressões) – Fishy
- Expressions (expressões) – Kill Two Birds with One Stone
- Expressions (expressões) – Piece of Cake
- Expressions (expressões) – Dog Eat Dog
(English, like most other languages, is full of expressions that don’t really make sense when translated. This series will explore some of the different, popular expressions used in English to help any speaker improve their vocabulary.)
The next few expressions are all going to deal with food terms. English loves to use food and animals in the expressions, even when the meaning isn’t actually related to the food.
Do you like cake? Is it difficult to eat a piece of cake? No! It’s very easy to eat cake. In fact, it’s a piece of cake to eat a piece of cake! That’s a weird sentence, isn’t it? The English phrase piece of cake means that something is very easy to do. The literal English to Portuguese translation is “pedaço de bolo,” but the figurative translation is “muito facil.”
Examples
After training for a year, running 5 kilometers is now a piece of cake!
That practice test was a piece of cake. I hope the real test is so easy.
