🗓️ Idiom: Spice Things Up (v)
💬 Meaning
- To make something more interesting, exciting, or creative.
- It means adding energy or variety to improve a product, idea, or process.
🧠 Example Sentences
- We spiced things up by adding fun animations to our app interface.
- The team suggested spicing things up with a bold new logo design.
- To attract more users, they spiced things up with interactive features.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from cooking, where spices add flavour to food. In business or innovation, it means making something more appealing or engaging by adding something new or different.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
They decided to __________ by using bright colors and modern fonts in their presentation.
Answer
spice things up
2. Choose the correct meaning of “spice things up”:
A) Make something more exciting or creative
B) Simplify a process
C) Remove unnecessary features
D) Pause development
Answer
A) Make something more exciting or creative
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“We made our campaign more interesting by adding humor and surprises.” → Change the sentence using: spice things up
Answer
We spiced things up by adding humor and surprises to our campaign.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
