{"id":76225,"date":"2022-12-24T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=76225"},"modified":"2022-12-24T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T09:36:24","slug":"christmas-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/christmas-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A white Christmas<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It refers to the snow on the ground on Christmas day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Australians can never have a white Christmas. (= It almost never snows in Australia.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christmas came early this year<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an expression used to say that something really good happened earlier than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, if you have already received your gifts, Christmas has come early for you.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Good things come in small packages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This expression is used to mean that gifts are valuable regardless of the size of their package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Puppies and kittens always remind me that good things do come in small packages.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deck the halls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To deck the halls is to decorate your home for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I decked the halls well in advance because all my children were coming home for Christmas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lit up \/ done up like a Christmas tree<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas trees are full of colorful and bright decorative items. When a person is lit up like a Christmas tree, they are overly dressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether it is a Sunday or Monday, she is always lit up like a Christmas tree.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The proof is in the pudding \/ the proof of the pudding is in the eating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an expression used to mean that in order to judge the quality of something you have to test it or use it first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Critics might think that he is a bad actor but his movies are all blockbusters. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eat, drink and be merry<\/strong> (enjoy yourself)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Now that all the guests have arrived, let&#8217;s eat, drink and be merry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/manjushanambiar79\/\">Follow us on Instagram<\/a> for English grammar and writing lessons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white Christmas It refers to the snow on the ground on Christmas day. Australians can never have a white Christmas. (= It almost never snows in Australia.) Christmas came early this year This&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3599,393],"class_list":["post-76225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-christmas-idioms","tag-english-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76226,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76225\/revisions\/76226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}