Idiom:
1.He always goes around the when I ask him something
Beat around the bush
Definitions:
• Avoid an important topic
• Avoid conversation.
Idiom:
Drown in a glass of water
Definitions:
 have difficulty solving
problems
 Give a lot of importance
to a very small problem.
Examples:
2. fredy always beats around the bush when I ask him
where he was.
In Colombian spanish:
Irse por las ramas
Examples:
1. You always drowning in a glass of water. Better not tell
him anything.
2. you drown in a glass of water, you attach great importance
to a very small problem.
In Colombian spanish:
Ahogarse en un vaso de agua
Idiom: Examples:
1. the topics on the exam are a piece of cake
Beat around the bush
2. Driving this car is not difficult, it is a piece of cake

Definitions:
In Colombian spanish:
• when something is very
easy to do Es pan comido

• it doesn't take much effort

to perform the task.

Idiom: Examples:
1. I'm not going back to you don't make castles in the air
build castles in the air
Definitions: 2. but if we meet other than to make castles in the air

• hope for something without

having a foundation for it. In Colombian spanish:

• dreaming of things that are Hacer castillos en el aire

out of reality
Idiom: Examples:
1. You already did a lot of damage to the family. do not try
Cover the sun with a finger. to cover the sun with a finger

2. You are trying to cover it with a finger, if you think that

Definitions: everything is already solved, returning what is left.

• remedy or hide the

seriousness of an issue by In Colombian spanish:
minimizing it,
Tapar el sol con un dedo.
• avoid a problem with a
small solution.

Idiom: Examples:
1. I was wrong, we can make a clean slate
blur and new account
2. Let's make a clean slate, let's not fight anymore

Definitions:
In Colombian spanish:
• the problem is
forgotten and you start Borron t cuenta nueva
over as if nothing had
happened.
Idiom: Examples:
The drop that spilled the 1. He was late again, it was the straw that broke the glass
glass. and they fired him

2. This is the drop that spilled the glass. I will no longer

allow deception.
Definitions:
In Colombian spanish:
• it ends with someone's
patience. La gota que derramo el vaso

• last problem allowed