10 English Idioms Using Fruit
Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. Idioms and expressions give your English a natural note. All other aspects of language learning such as listening, reading and writing will improve a lot if you understand and use a variety of idioms and expressions. So, let’s jump to it! Here are 10 English idioms using fruit.
- Apple of my eye
- Apples and oranges
- Apple of discord
- Bad apple
- Bowl of cherries
- Go bananas
- Lemon
- Not give a fig
- Peach
- Sour grapes
English idioms using fruit
Apple of my eye
If you say that someone is the apple of your eye, you mean that they are particularly valuable and important to you and that you love them very much.
Molly was a single mother who brought her son up like the apple of her eye.
Apples and oranges
We use the idioms to say that two items or people are too different and there is no use comparing them.
If you compare the standard of living in the 18th century and today, you are talking about apples and oranges. The density of the population was way smaller and technology was not developed back then.
Apple of discord
The expression apple of discord refers to a small argument or dispute which can eventually lead to a big problem.
Their father’s will was an apple of discord among the two brothers. He left everything to his elder son and nothing to the younger one.
English idioms using fruit
Bad apple
The expression bad apple usually refers to a person who is immoral or dishonest and has a bad influence on other people.
Simon has always been a bad apple. I remember him stealing cars as a teenager.
I don’t like that football player. He lacks focus. I’m afraid he could have a bad influence on the team’s play. You know what they say – a bad apple can spoil the barrel.
Bowl of cherries
People usually say that life is just a bowl of cherries when they want to say that their life is pleasurable. It is often used to express the opposite situation.
James is retiring next month. From now on, life is just a bowl of cherries.
After her husband died, Jane’s life wasn’t really a bowl of cherries.
Go bananas
When someone goes bananas, he gets very angry or excited.
Peter went bananas when he saw his electricity bill.
Lemon
We say that a piece of machine or device is a lemon when it does not work well.
The car I bought from Jack turned out to be a lemon. Its brakes don’t work and the front seat is collapsing.
English idioms using fruit
Not give a fig
If you say that you don’t give a fig about something, you mean that you do not care about anything.
Jill and her husband live as if there is no tomorrow – they spend too much money and don’t care about what their relatives and friends think. They don’t give a fig about anything.
Peach
If we tell someone that they are a peach, we mean that they are very kind and helpful.
You mended my shirt. You are a peach!
Sour grapes
Saying that something is sour grapes means that we have developed a negative attitude toward something because we cannot have it.
It may sound like sour grapes but I wouldn’t like to have a big house. It’s too much cleaning and expensive to maintain.
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English idioms using fruit
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