- 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 animal terms. English loves to use food and animals in the expressions, even when the meaning isn’t actually related to the food.
Many times when you add the letter “y” to the end of a word, you turn a noun into an adjective. The word fish, for example, becomes fishy. Normally, fishy means that something smells, tastes, or looks like a fish. However, there is also an expression when using “fishy.” The expression means that something is odd, weird, or suspicious.
Examples
Mark is acting really fishy today. I think he has a surprise.
This places seems fishy. I think something bad might happen.
