Chinese new year

Question 1

zodiac

Answer 1

I travelled to downtown Beijing to trackdown how the Chinese zodiac works.

Question 2

series

Answer 2

across the series

Question 3

shard

Answer 3

something related to sharp, Dashuhua is a kind of show throwing flying shards of molten metal in the air.

Question 4

tinsel

Answer 4

If I was to go to my hometown, the shops would be fulll of tinsel and snowmen.

Question 5

oasis

Answer 5

compared to the bustle outside, the railway bureau center is a oasis of calm.

Question 6

your bark is worse than your bite

Answer 6

Don’t worry about John’s threats. His bark is worse than his bite

Question 7

in my blood

Answer 7

When something is in your blood, that means you really enjoy it and it is a part of your life

Question 8

take it to heart

Answer 8

When we lose, I take it to heart.

Question 9

bite my lip

Answer 9

When I saw his ugly haircut, I bit my lip.

Question 10

falls on

Answer 10

but chinese new year falls on a different date each, dictated by Chinese lunar calendar.

Question 11

dictate

Answer 11

according to the lunar calendar, it’s dictated by the first new moon closest to the beginning of spring.

Question 12

rooster

Answer 12

Favored in the U.S. originally as a puritan alternative to cock (n.) after it had acquired the secondary sense “penis”