Idioms Exercises – Part 3

:Use your dictionary of idioms to find the meaning of the following idioms

Bread and butter
Out of the blue
Donkey work
In the red
Red-letter day
Chicken-hearted

Answers

Bread and butter
وسیله امرارمعاش

Meaning: providing a livelihood or basic source of income, supplying the basic needs of life
Example 1: a bread-and-butter job
Example 2: the agency’s bread-and-butter account

(expressing thanks for hospitality: a bread-and-butter letter)

Out of the blue
یهویی

Meaning: without warning; unexpectedly
“Example: “she phoned me out of the blue

Donkey work
خرکاری

Meaning: the boring or laborious part of a job; drudgery
“Example: “supervisors who get a research student to do the donkey work

In the red
بدهکار

Meaning: If you or your bank account are in the red, you owe money to the bank

Red-letter day
روز بیادماندنی

Meaning: a day that is pleasantly noteworthy or memorable
“Example: “many a trout angler has had a red-letter day on Loch Awe

Chicken-hearted
بزدل

Meaning: easily frightened; cowardly