All about cookies

Cookie is the American word for the British word biscuit. A cookie is a flat, thin, dry cake, sweetened or unsweetened, usually sold in packets or tins.



In English, there are some expressions with the word cookie:

-To be a smart cookie: to be very clever (slang).
-To be a tough cookie: to be a hard type, a hard person (slang).
-That´s the way the cookie crumbles: that´s how things are and you must accept them (used when something unfortunate or unpleasant has happened).
-Toss your cookies: to vomit (slang).
-To be caught with one´s hand in the cookie jar: to catch someone when he or she is doing something bad. For example: He was caught with his hand in the cookie jar when he was stealing the money.

THE COOKIE MONSTER:

The Cookie Monster is a character in the US television programme Sesame Street who loves to eat cookies. He always appears when anyone has cookies and he eats all of them very quickly and wildly.