Exercise – 3

🔹 Kick the bucket
🔸 Meaning: To die (informal expression)

✅ The old man kicked the bucket peacefully in his sleep.
✅ He always joked that he’d travel the world before kicking the bucket.

🔹 Piece of cake
🔸 Meaning: Something very easy

✅ The test was a piece of cake for her.
✅ Solving that puzzle was a piece of cake.

🔹 Add fuel to the fire
🔸 Meaning: To make a bad situation worse

✅ His rude comment added fuel to the fire during the argument.
✅ Don’t say anything now — it’ll only add fuel to the fire.

🔹 Under someone’s nose
🔸 Meaning: Right in front of someone without them noticing

✅ The theft happened right under the guard’s nose.
✅ They cheated under the teacher’s nose.

🔹 Cry over spilt milk
🔸 Meaning: To regret something that has already happened

✅ There’s no use crying over spilt milk — move on!
✅ He kept crying over spilt milk after losing the match.

🔹 Let sleeping dogs lie
🔸 Meaning: Don’t restart old conflicts or issues

✅ Don’t bring up that issue again — let sleeping dogs lie.
✅ I didn’t mention the past — I thought it’s better to let sleeping dogs lie.

🔹 Jump the gun
🔸 Meaning: To do something too soon or prematurely

✅ Don’t jump the gun — wait for the official announcement.
✅ He jumped the gun and started answering before the question was complete.

🔹 Hit the sack
🔸 Meaning: To go to bed / to sleep

✅ I’m really tired — I’m going to hit the sack now.
✅ He hit the sack early after a long day at work.

🔹 Bend over backwards
🔸 Meaning: To try very hard to help someone or achieve something

✅ She bent over backwards to help her friend.
✅ They bent over backwards to meet the deadline.

🔹 Burn one’s bridges
🔸 Meaning: To make it impossible to go back to a previous situation

✅ He quit the job angrily and burned his bridges.
✅ Don’t burn your bridges — you might need help later.