LANGUAGE

SHAPES PEOPLE
ACTIVITY 5
Suarez Tozal Maria Julia. /03047403
Teacher: Iván Carrillo
21/02/23
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BED OF ROSES
HOLD ALL THE ACES SHORT FUSE
When something is very
When a certain person or When someone is very
easy or luxurious.
group of people are in the propense to getting angry
ORIGIN position to win
“A bed of roses” as an idiom

Comes from the fuse used in
originated in England and is
quite an old expression. One of
the earliest examples can be
found in a poem called “The
Passionate Shepherd to His
Love” written by Christopher
Marlowe (also known as Kit
Marlowe), published in 1599 after
the death of the author.
ORIGIN
ORIGIN
The idiom “holding all the aces” setting off explosions like
became a metaphor used by writers firecrackers and dynamite.
and the general public. This happens
when a phrase is found to be useful,
clever, and/or interesting enough to
eventually become part of the
common vernacular.
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Ça marche

To say that
C’est du gâteau. something works or Être dans la lune
that you
A piece of cake, understood it.

To be daydreaming or
when somthing can to have your head in the
be done in a very moon
easy way.
ORIGIN
ORIGIN ORIGIN
Had its first appareance in This expression had its
This expression was used by
the text of poet Ogdne Nash first appareance with
Bernet et Rézeau, in the novel
"her pictures in the papers writer Mirabeau, in the
of René Fallet from 1947.
now and life´s a íece of cake". 18TH century in Empire
de la Lune.
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