fruit Идиома

nutty as a fruit cake

funny, kooky, mad as a hatter Do I know Karl? Yes, I do. He's nutty as a fruit cake!

nutty as a fruitcake

very crazy The woman who lives next door to us is as nutty as a fruitcake.

angry fruit salad

computer slang for a bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours

forbidden fruit

Idiom(s): forbidden fruit

Theme: TABOO

someone or something that one finds attractive or desirable partly because having the person or thing is immoral or illegal. (From the apple in the Garden of Eden that was forbidden to Adam by God.)
• Jim flirts with his sister-in-law only because she's forbidden fruit.
• The boy watches that program only when his parents are out. It's forbidden fruit.

bear fruit

Idiom(s): bear fruit

Theme: RESULTS

to yield results; to give (literal or figurative) fruit.
• Our apple tree didn't bear fruit this year.
• I hope your new plan bears fruit. • We've had many good ideas, but none of them has borne fruit.

A tree is known by its fruit.

A man is judged by his actions.

Stolen fruit is the sweetest.

What is forbidden is the most tempting.

Low-hanging fruit

Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved.

bear fruit|bear|fruit

v. phr. To yield results. We hope that the company's new investment policy will bear fruit.

nutty as a fruitcake|fruitcake|nutty

adj. phr., slang Very crazy; entirely mad. He looked all right, as we watched him approach, but when he began to talk, we saw that he was as nutty as a fruitcake.

fruit

fruit
see bear fruit; forbidden fruit.

fruitcake

fruitcake
see nutty as a fruitcake.