slang

Learn Some New Slang

Apple of her/his eye

MEANING: someone or something that one likes a lot

EXAMPLE:

the little girl is the apple of her grandfather’s eye.

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Bark up the wrong tree

MEANING: choose the wrong course of action

EXAMPLE:

He is barking up the wrong tree. He accuses me of causing the computer
problem but I was away at the time.

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Wolf in sheep’s clothing

MEANING: a person who pretends to be good but really is bad

EXAMPLE:

Be careful of that man. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.