Question

Write the meaning of given idioms- 02

a. chicken hearted bellow ______________

b. To cost pearls before a swine_____________​

Answer 1

Idioms & Their Meanings:

a) Chicken hearted fellow:

• It is used to refer anyone coward or about someone who gets scared easily i.e. a timid nature.

• 'Chicken' here means a coward bird who starts panicking insanely in small things too$.$

Example:-

• His is a chicken-hearted man; he cannot see down from a height.

b) To cast pearls before a swine:

• The above idiom simply refers wasting time or valuable things on those who totally don't deserve or appreciate these.

• 'Pearls' refer to the valuable and priceless things whereas 'swine' is used as a contradictory referring to a unpleasant person / thing.

Example:-

• Nowadays, Playing classical theme music is like a casting pearls before a swine to the highschoolers.

Answer 2

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Question 1

• 'A chicken hearted fellow' refers to a person who is easily frightened; cowardly.
• It refer to a person who shows lack of courage or confidence;
• Example - My friend Mohan ischicken hearted fellow

Question 2

• It refers something of value of that someone doesn't appreciate it.
• Example - The old professor felt that lecturing on Dante to unruly undergraduates would be casting pearls before swine.

Idioms

Idioms are phrase that detect a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to speak.