Phrases to remember

This is a new section with interesting phrases to remember, mainly from the BBC Learning English website:

• • To chicken out (spring chicken, spring lamb...)

  • Wise old owl (a night owl)

• A piece of cake

  • Stand tall (tall order)

  • Child's play (a poster child)

  • To dawn on (the crack of dawn)

  • Horse around (from the horse's mouth) Animal idioms: Horse

  • Hold the fort (to be like Fort Knox)

  • Sour grapes (heard something through the grapevine)

  • Chew the fat

  • Turn the page

  • Bread and butter

  • Wash your hands