Edited by Vivian Deng
学好英语的重要性你一定知道，熟练掌握一些俚语可以让你更好的和native speakers 交流，下次听到关于植物花朵的俚语再也不用beg pardon 啦。特别整理了50个常用俚语(植物花朵篇),希望对你有帮助。
1. Broken reed
If something or someone fails to give you the support you were hoping for, they're a broken reed.
2. Bouquet of orchids
If someone deserves a bouquet of orchids, they have done something worthy of praise.
3. Beat around the bush
If someone doesn't say clearly what they mean and try to make it hard to understand, they are beating around the bush.
4. Come up roses
If things come up roses, they produce a positive result, especially when things seemed to be going badly at first.
5. Come up smelling of roses
(UK) If someone comes up smelling of roses, they emerge from a situation with their reputation undamaged.
6. Draw the shortest straw
If someone draes the shortest straw, they lose or are chosen to do something unpleasant.
7. Flowery speech
Flowery speech is full of lovely words, but may well lack substance.
8. Forest for the trees
(USA) If someone can't see the forest for the trees, they got so caught up in smal details that they fail to understand the bigger picture.
9. Gild the lily
If you gild the lily, you decorate something that is already ornate.
10. Go to seed
If someone has gone to seed, they have declined in quality or appearance.
11. Grass roots
This idiom is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters. It can be used to mean people at the bottom of a hierarchy.
12. Jungle out there
If someone says that it is a jungle out there, they the situation is dangerous and there are no rules.
13. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined
Things, especially education, that affect and influence us in our childhood shape the kind of adult we turn out to be.
14. Knock the wood
Wish for good luck.
15. Lead someone up the garden path
If someone leads you up the garden path, they deceive you, or give you the false information that causes you to waste your time.
16. Make hay
If you make hay, or may hay while the sun shines, you take advantage of an opportunity as soon as it arises and do not waste time.
17. Needle in a haystack
If trying to find something is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it means that it's very difficult, if not impossible to find among everything around it.
18. No bed of roses
If something isn't a bed of roses, it's difficult.
19. Olive branch
If you hold out or offer an olive branch, you make a gesture to indicate that you want peace.
20. Primrose path
The primrose path is an easy and pleasurable lifestyle, but one that ends in unpleasantness and problems.
21. Pushing up the daisies
If someone is said to be pushing up the daisies, they are dead.
22. Shrinking violet
Shy person who doesn't expeess their views and opinions.
23. The short straw
If you take the short straw, you lose a selection process, which means that you have to do something unpleasant.
24. Thorn in your side
A thron in your side is someone or something that causes trouble or makes life difficult for you.
25. Up a gum tree
If you are up a gum tree, you're in trouble or a big mess.
26. Watch grass grow
If something is like watching grass grow, it is really boring.
27. Wither on the vine
If something withers on the vine, it fails to get the intended result, doesn't come to fruition.
28. Nip something in the bud
To put an end to something before it has the chance to grow out of hand and into a problem.
29. Let the grass grow under your feet
Delay in taking an action/opportunity
30. Rest on your laurels
Rely upon past achievements and success and not continue to work to achieve new things or new success.
31. Put it in a nutshell
To reduce a large, complicated amount of information into a much smaller, easier to understand size.
32. Out on a limb
In a risky or dangerous situation.
33. Hear it on the grapevine
To hear or learn of something informally (and thereby not necessarily accurately or representative of the truth)---usually, though not always, verbally.
34. To root for
To give encouragement and support to someone or something;
To cheer for someone or something.
35. Stick in the mud
A person who dislikes or adapts slowly to new ideas.
36. Out of one's gourd
Crazy, irrational
37. In clover
Benefiting from a positive financial situation.
38. The grass is always greener (on the other side of the fence)
Other people's lives or situations always seem better than us.
39. To cherry-pick
Choose only the best people or things in an unfair manner.
40. Everything in the garden is rosy.
There're no problems in a situation (often used in a negative situation).
41. To have a bee in one's bonnet
Be obsessively preoccupied with something.
42. An old chestnut
A joke, story or idea that's become tedious because of constant repetition.
43. To shake like a leaf
Tremble with fear or nervousness.
44. Make hay while the sun shines
This expression is used as an encouragement to take advantage of a good situation which may not last.
45. Sow wild oats
A person, usually a man, who sowa their wild oats goes through a period of carefree pleasure-seeking while they're young.
46. Small dog, tall weeds
This expression is used to refer to someone who does not have the ability or the resources necessary to perform a task.
47. Root and branch
If an action is performed thoroughly or completely, it's done 'root and branch '.
48. Shake the pagoda tree
To obtain or earn money very quickly and readily.
49. Live in a tree
To be lucky.
50. Dead-tree format
A copy of a written work printed on paper, especially that which is also available in a digital format.
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