{"id":722,"date":"2015-04-07T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2015-04-07T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T11:23:55","slug":"idiom-109-walk-on-eggshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-109-walk-on-eggshells\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 109 &#8211; Walk on eggshells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The LINGUA FRANCA Spachschule blog hopes you all had a wonderful Easter. To celebrate &#8211; an egg themed idiom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dev-content-normal alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/th08.deviantart.net\/fs70\/PRE\/i\/2009\/362\/5\/0\/Cracked_Eggs_by_AbsurdWordPreferred.jpg\" alt=\"Cracked Eggs by AbsurdWordPreferred\" width=\"159\" height=\"105\" data-embed-type=\"deviation\" data-embed-format=\"thumb\" data-embed-id=\"148380340\" \/>My boss is not an easy person to work with. He can become angry very quickly, even on a good day. But today is not a good day. This morning we found out that our biggest client was moving to our biggest competitor. Everyone in the office has been walking on eggshells (Eiertanz auff\u00fchren).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is just one of many egg-based English idioms. See some more at the links below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-28-dont-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket\/\">You can\u2019t make an omelette without breaking some eggs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-28-dont-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket\/\">Don\u2019t put all your eggs in one basket<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-77-dont-teach-your-grandmother-to-suck-eggs\/\">Don\u2019t teach your grandmother to suck eggs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LINGUA FRANCA Spachschule blog hopes you all had a wonderful Easter. To celebrate &#8211; an egg themed idiom! My boss is not an easy person to work with. He can become angry very quickly, even on a good day. But today is not a good day. This morning we found out that our biggest [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}