Fruit Idioms
9. Plum
1. A plum job
- Meaning: Very good job
- E.g. He got a plum job in an insurance company.
2. Speak with a plum in (one's) mouth
- Meaning: To speak in a manner that is indicative of a high social class. Primarily heard in UK.
- E.g. He spoke with such a plum in his mouth that none of us working-class sods could stand to listen to him.
3. Like a ripe plum
- Meaning: Easily; with very little resistance.
- E.g. After a few months of being cut off from supplies, the city will fall into our hands like a ripe plum.
