Did You Know About These Interesting Fruity Idioms ?
By Vidushi Singh
A phrase or expression with an idiomatic meaning is one that cannot be understood by defining the individual words that make up the phrase.
1. CHERRY-PICK
Process of choosing the best or most desirable items from set of options to obtain, advantage.
2. TOP BANANA & SECOND BANANA
Top banana The boss, the leader or a chief person in a group or undertaking. Second banana Any person who plays a secondary role or serves in a subsidiary capacity
3. NOT GIVE A FIG
To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker.
4. SOUR GRAPES
Refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves.
5. COMPARE APPLE & ORANGES
To make a comparison between two things that are not enough alike to merit comparison, Of two different classes, not comparable.
6. PEACHES & CREAM
A very enjoyable, perfect experience usually used to describe something being unrealistically idyllic.
7. LEMON LAW
A law that requires manufacturers to replace, repair, or refund the cost of automobiles that prove to be defective.
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