Occasionally dropping an idiom in your conversation will make you sound more fluent.
Here’s the idiom of the day:
Which doens’t only mean someone is on a lunch break…
When someone is out to lunch, it means that he/she is giddy, not alert, not quite there, not in reality….
Example:
Looks like he didn’t really pay attention to what we were saying..He’s out to lunch at the mo..
Here’s the idom of the way
But beware… it means something quite different whether it’s used in the positive form or the negative one…
To hold a candle for someone= to have a crush/to like someone
BUT
To NOT hold a candle to something= means “no way as good as, to compare badly to a known authority”
Eg: The old phone just doesn’t hold a candle to the latest models.
In French it’s much less flattering or comfortable (tenir la chandelle…Means to be alone with a couple, or “to be the gooseberry” in English)
Expression of the day:
When something is not quite up to scratch, it means it is not satisfactory, it doesn’t meet the standards and it could be better…
Example:
We had a look at the presentation and as it is not quite up to scratch, we should work on it a bit more…
Not someone who’s completely round and drunk (rond in French)
An all-rounder is someone who has a many different skills or great versatility.
Example:
So glad she joined the team, she’s such an all-rounder …
