Exercise – 22

🔹 Put all your eggs in one basket
🔸 Meaning: Relying entirely on one option / risk everything on one thing
✅ Don’t rely on just one job — it’s like putting all your eggs in one basket.
✅ We should invest in different places — don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

🔹 Bite the hand that feeds you
🔸 Meaning: Turn against someone you depend on / be ungrateful
✅ He bit the hand that fed him by complaining about the boss who hired him.
✅ Fighting with your well-wishers is like biting the hand that feeds you.

🔹 Take something with a pinch of salt
🔸 Meaning: Don’t completely believe / take with skepticism
✅ Take what he says with a pinch of salt.
✅ Take such rumors with a pinch of salt.

🔹 The last straw
🔸 Meaning: The final limit of patience / the last straw that breaks the camel’s back
✅ His rudeness was the last straw — I’ve had enough.
✅ Coming late was okay, but lying was the last straw.

🔹 Out of the frying pan into the fire
🔸 Meaning: Escape one problem only to get into a worse one
✅ He jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
✅ Out of the frying pan into the fire — trouble just doesn’t end.

🔹 Turn a blind eye
🔸 Meaning: Deliberately ignore something
✅ He turned a blind eye to the mistake.
✅ Everyone sees the corruption but chooses to turn a blind eye.

🔹 Spill the beans
🔸 Meaning: Reveal a secret
✅ He spilled the beans about the surprise party!
✅ We thought he’d stay quiet, but he spilled the beans.

🔹 Throw someone under the bus
🔸 Meaning: Sacrifice someone to save oneself
✅ He threw his friend under the bus to save himself.
✅ He threw the team under the bus for his own mistake.

🔹 Not my cup of tea
🔸 Meaning: Not to one’s liking / something one doesn’t enjoy
✅ Dancing is not my cup of tea.
✅ This job is not my cup of tea.

🔹 Cut corners
🔸 Meaning: Do something poorly to save money or time
✅ He cut corners to save money and now regrets it.
✅ He cut corners to finish fast and the work suffered.