介绍:
1）CHILD'S PLAY
-Compared to David's last job, his new job is child's play.
-Thomas is good with computers that he makes coding software looking like child's play.
-It is child's play for James to been John at chess.
MEANING:
If something is child's play, it is very easy and simple. Something particularly simple or easy.
ETYMOLOGY:
young children do not have difficult lives. it is not difficult for children to play. so the origin of the phrase is to associate the subject in question with being so easy that it's as easy as a child playing.
2）BABY BOOMER
-My grandparents are baby boomers. The baby boomers are all retired now.
-The baby boomers will be the last generation in america to collect their full social security checks.
MEANING:
(USA) A baby boomer is someone born in the years after the end of the Second World War, a period when the population was growing very fast. A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the USA and other Allied countries as between 1945 and the early 1960s), when there was an increase in the birth rate following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
ETYMOLOGY:
After World War 2 ended in 1945, vast numbers of military personnel were released from service and began to rebuild their lives and start families. By early 1946, it became clear that America was going to experience a "Baby Boom," a surge in the number of children born over a two- or three-year period. The term was used at the time, and Americans of that generation have been known ever since as the Baby Boomers.
3）BIRTHDAY SUIT
-George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit. On a nude beach, everyone is wearing their birthday suit.
-Thomas saw a crazy man walking down the street wearing his birthday suit and talking to himself.
MEANING:
If you are in your birthday suit, you are naked. Nakedness; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing
ETYMOLOGY:
It comes from the lack of clothes worn when one is born.
