MORE IDIOMS ROUND 2....SAME RULES :) 1 ANSWER PER PERSON 1. Why do we say that something is as easy as pie when everyone knows that pies are hard to make? They slide down easily with ice cream though! It refers to the fact that pies are easy to buy. Pie sellers were easy to cheat. The saying refers to the old game of throwing custard pies. It really means as easy as eating a pie because they taste good. 2. In this description of something that is very easy, what are the missing words? Its like taking ___ from a ___. Who would put up the least resistance? Ask any baby. bones, dog chocolate, box bull, china shop candy, baby 3. Which of these is the generally accepted description of an easy task? Cant see the wood for the trees? Its as easy as ___. riding a bicycle falling off a log climbing up a tree swinging from a branch 4. Little children in school might appreciate this easy alphabetical idiom, literally. Which one? as easy as ABC as easy as 123 as easy as XYZ as easy as 999 5. The next idiom, describing an easy task, is of American origin. The American humourist and poet Ogden Nash uses it in a work called The Primrose Path in 1936. What confectionary delight completes the quotation? Her pictures in the papers now And lifes a ___ dry Martini cup of tea piece of cake pain in the neck 6. You might say that preparing these green podded vegetables was as easy as _________ , according to popular idiom. slicing parsnips paring peppers crushing corn shelling peas 7. An almost exclusively British term, this synonym for an easy task may be derived from the word dodder or perhaps Dawdle What is the expression? Its a fiddle. Its a waddle. Its a doddle. Its a moddle. 8. Are you finding this quiz easy ? Yes? Getting there, are you? How would you describe it? A pullover A push over A walk over A fall over 9. Its a cakewalk. An easily accomplished task is often described as a cakewalk. What was the original meaning of the term cakewalk? Take steps towards the answer. A street market A birthday party A beginners cookery class A marching dance with intricate steps 10. Easy peasy,___ ___ A UK washing up liquid advertisement in the 70s showed an immaculately dressed yummy mummy flanked by a pile of used plates on one hand and a squeezy bottle on the other, washing dishes, watched by her small daughter. What product name completes the little girls final excited comment? There a scent of citrus in the air! Bright and Breezy Sparkly Barkly Doubly Bubbly Lemon Squeezy
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