Idiom: Grass is always greener

[golf]

Again!!!

Alan I 'm foolish with idiom again.. please tell me what 's does it mean

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Correct answer: (c) greener

I don't get it why grass have to be greener.

what does it mean and how I can use this word

Poor Mary was a bit of a wallflower at the dance.

Correct answer: (c) wallflower

Is this one discribing dance by silly moving ?

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Correct answer: (c) trees

Why have to be grow on tree ...

please give me the reason why too ?

Thank you very much
Golf

[Torsten]

Hi Golf,

You have probably experienced this: It seems to you that your colleague's or neighbour's job, house or personal situation is better than yours. That's when we say «the grass is always greener on the other side» — we always want what we don't have.

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[Guest]

Sorry .. the aphorism "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence" doesn't mean that other people have it better. It means that other places or situations always look better than where you are now. And by extension, once you get to the other place that looked greener, you'll find it's the same dreary brown grass and your original spot will now look to be the "greener."

[Alan]

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[Guest]

>Poor Mary was a bit of a wallflower at the dance.

A "wallflower" is a person too shy to participate. For example, a woman at a dance might stand against the WALL looking pretty as a FLOWER but doesn't dance - either because she is shy or because no one asks her. It could apply to other situations also, for example, a person at a business meeting who doesn't speak but just sits there.

>Money doesn't grow on trees.

No reason for "trees" instead of other sources, like a flower garden. "Trees" is just the term commonly used in this idiom. NOTE: The phrase is often used to scold children about the value of money, that Mommy and Daddy are not rich: we must spend money wisely. Is simillar to the phrase of "I'm not made of money." You might appear rude if you say it to peers or your boss.