Fruity expressions
HAVE you been working hard to improve your English? Do you see your efforts bearing fruit?
Are you familiar with some of these “fruit” expressions which can add colour and richness to your language?
1. Bears fruit: If your effort bears fruit it is successful and produces good results.
Your years of nurturing will bear fruit, and you will be proud parents.
2. Forbidden fruit: A source of pleasure that involves breaking a rule or doing something you are not supposed to do.
They enjoyed the forbidden fruit of an extra-marital affair.
3. First fruit: The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
His good durian harvest is the first fruit of his horticultural projects.
4. Apple of someone’s eye: Someone who is beloved.
John is the apple of his mother’s eye.
5. Apple pie order: Perfect order.
Her house is always in apple pie order.
6. Apple polishing: Doing things to gain the support or favour of someone.
The students in the last class are good in apple polishing.
7. Going bananas: Behaving in a crazy way or becoming extremely angry.
He is going bananas over racing cars.
8. Banana republics: Small, poor countries.
More aid should be given to banana republics.
9. Peaches and cream: If you say a girl has a peaches and cream complexion, you mean she has clear, smooth skin.
Her peaches and cream complexion gives her a healthy glow.
10. Peach or peachy: Something described as peachy is very nice.
Everything is her life is just peachy.
11. Cherry- pick: If you cherry-pick people or things, they choose the best from a group, often in a way considered unfair.
She cherry-picks the smart girls to be prefects.
12. Plum: A plum job is a good one which many people would like.
He got a plum job with a shipping company.
13. Pear-shaped: If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
His project to renovate his factory has gone pear-shaped.
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