Holiday Idioms
The more the merrier
The more people that are here, the better it will be!
Break a Leg
Good luck
Better late than never
It's better you arrived late than you not come at all
The secret has been revealed
Piece of cake
Something was easy
You are lit up like a Christmas tree!
You look super happy
Cut me some slack
Don't give me a hard time; don't be so critical or mean to me about this
Miss the boat
It's too late
Wild goose chase
A pointless search for something
To have something "handed to someone on a silver platter" (the phrase silver platter is the idiom.)
To receive something without working hard for it at all. It was just given to them. They didn't earn it.
Christmas came early
To give someone a present or make someone really excited when it isn't Christmas yet
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it
We will solve that problem later
Wrap your head around something
Understand something complicated
Barking up the wrong tree
Looking for an answer or solution to a problem in the wrong place.
Take it with a grain of salt
Don't take the advice literally- it doesn't mean much.
Trim the tree
Decorate the Christmas tree
Haste makes waste
If you rush, you'll make mistakes
A penny for your thoughts
Tell me what you are thinking
Lion's share
(ex: The birthday kid gets the lion's share of their birthday cake.)
The biggest or best part of something
Bring home the bacon
To be the one to earn money when someone else can't.
Deck the halls
(My favorite part about Christmastime is decking the halls with my family. I like to hang up the lights!)
Decorate the house for Christmas
It is always darkest before dawn
(ex: if you're going through a bad time right now, just know that it is always darkest before the dawn.)
Things are going to get better.
You have bigger fish to fry
(ex: when a student tells me they can't do their work because they're tired and have to take a nap, I'd tell them that they have bigger fish to fry.)
You have more important problems to worry about right now
Dark horse
(When we play Blooket, it's often the dark horse in the room that ends up winning.)
A competitor who is not known or popular, but wins unexpectedly
You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
(ex: if you want to save your raffle tickets but also want to get Takis, I'll tell you that you can't have your cake and eat it, too.)
You must choose between the two options; you can't have both. You can't have 2 good things at once.