Задание

Match the idioms with their definitions.

  • Объекты 1
    • 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
  • Объекты 2
    • 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