Задание

Match the idioms with their definitions.

a chicken in every pot

chicken scratch

chicken and egg situation

chicken feed

chicken out

chickens come home to roost

no spring chicken

chicken switch

chicken-brained

chicken-hearted

a symbol of wealth and prosperity

very poor, messy, and illegible handwriting, likened to the marks made in the dirt by a chicken

a situation in which it is difficult or impossible to tell which of two things comes (or should come) first, as each one seems to cause the other to occur

a very small sum of money

to stop doing something because of fear; to decide not to do something after all even though previously having decided to try it

you get the punishment that you deserve

someone who’s no longer young

the emergency eject button used by test pilots in fast and high flying aircraft by means of which they can parachute to safety if the engine fails

stupid; narrow-minded; unimaginative

cowardly; excessively timid