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in one's second childhood

Idiom(s): in one's second childhood

Theme: CHILDHOOD

being interested in things or people that normally interest children.
• My father bought himself a toy train, and my mother said he was in his second childhood.
• Whenever I go to the river and throw stones, I feel as if I'm in my second childhood.

expecting a child

Idiom(s): expecting (a child)

Theme: PREGNANCY

pregnant. (A euphemism.)
• Tommy's mother is expecting a child.
• Oh, I didn't know she was expecting.

child's play

Idiom(s): child's play

Theme: EASY

something very easy to do.
• The test was child's play to her.
• Finding the right street was child's play with a map.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A bad experience will make people stay away from certain things.

Spare the rod and spoil the child

If you don't punish a child when he does wrong, you will spoil his character.

It takes a village to raise a child

It takes many people to teach a child all that he or she should know.

With child

(UK) If a woman's with child, she's pregnant.

a wild child

a young adult who goes to lots of parties: "Emma is a bit of a wild child."

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A mistake can be a great teacher.

burnt child dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre

A person who has suffered from doing something has learned to avoid doing it again.

A proverb. Once Mary had got lost when her mother took her downtown. But a burnt child dreads the fire, so now Mary stays close to her mother when they are downtown.

A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.

A bad acquaintance will accomplish bodies break abroad from assertive things.

A burnt adolescent dreads the fire.

A aberration can be a abundant teacher.

a agrarian child

a adolescent developed who goes to lots of parties: "Emma is a bit of a agrarian child."

burnt adolescent dreads the fire|bitten|burnt|child|dre

A actuality who has suffered from accomplishing article has abstruse to abstain accomplishing it again.

A proverb. Once Mary had got absent back her mother took her downtown. But a burnt adolescent dreads the fire, so now Mary stays abutting to her mother back they are downtown.

child

child
In accession to the argot alpha with child, additionally see second childhood.

child's play

Idiom(s): child's play

Theme: EASY

something actual accessible to do.
• The analysis was child's comedy to her.
• Finding the appropriate artery was child's comedy with a map.

child's play|child|play

adj. Easy; acute no effort. Mary's assignment as a advance amusing artisan is so acceptable to her that she thinks of it as child's play.

children and fools allege the truth|child|children|

Children and fools say things after thinking; they say what they anticipate or apperceive back grown-ups ability not anticipate it was affable or astute to do so.

A proverb. "Uncle Willie is too fat," said little Agnes. "Children and fools allege the truth," said her father.

children should be apparent and not heard|child|childr

A command issued by adults to accouchement acclimation them to be quiet and not to interrupt.

A proverb. Your accouchement should not altercate so loudly. Haven't you accomplished them that accouchement should be apparent and not heard?

expecting a child

Idiom(s): expecting (a child)

Theme: PREGNANCY

pregnant. (A euphemism.)
• Tommy's mother is assured a child.
• Oh, I didn't apperceive she was expecting.

flower child|child|flower

n., slang, informal 1. A adolescent actuality who believes in nonviolence and carries flowers about to betoken his amiable nature. Flower accouchement are declared to be nonviolent, but they abiding accomplish a lot of babble back they demonstrate! 2. Any actuality who cannot cope with reality. "Face facts, Suzie, stop actuality such a annual child!"

in one's additional childhood

Idiom(s): in one's additional childhood

Theme: CHILDHOOD

being absorbed in things or bodies that commonly absorption children.
• My ancestor bought himself a toy train, and my mother said he was in his additional childhood.
• Whenever I go to the river and bandy stones, I feel as if I'm in my additional childhood.

It takes a apple to accession a child

It takes abounding bodies to advise a adolescent all that he or she should know.

second childhood

second childhood
The dotage of old age; also, artless archness in an adult. For example, Grandpa needs full-time care, now that he's in his additional childhood, or Since he retired and started acquirements to fly, he's been in his additional childhood. Depending on the context, this appellation may allude either to such problems of old age as accident one's brainy or concrete capacities or to delighting in new pleasures in a artless fashion. [c. 1900]

second childhood|childhood|second

n. phr. Senility; dotage. "Grandpa is in his additional childhood; we charge accomplish allowances for him at the banquet table," my mother said, as Grandpa alone aliment all over the place.

Spare the rod and blemish the child

If you don't abuse a adolescent back he does wrong, you will blemish his character.

With child

(UK) If a woman's with child, she's pregnant.

with child|child

adv. phr., literary Going to accept a baby; pregnant. The angel told Mary she was with child.
Compare: IN A FAMILY WAY or IN THE FAMILY WAY.