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Dictionary ofEnglishIdiomsand Idiomatic Expressions
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Death of a thousand cuts
If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... spend most of their leisure time horizontal in front of
the TV and eats a diet that is mainly junk food.
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Labour of love...
...
Someone who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy.
Full of the joys of spring
If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy.
Full swing
If ... expert in the arts and literature, and often a writer too.
Man of means
A man, or woman, of means is wealthy.
Man of parts
A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas ...
Go hand in hand
If things go hand in hand, they are associated and go together.
Go off on a tangent
If someone goes off on a tangent, they change the subject completely in the middle of a...
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of variation is similar to wild card terms. Here are
examples of the sets of limited sets of verbs.
be ahead of Tom
get ahead of Tom
keep ahead of Tom
remain ahead of Tom
stay ... fairly commonly
known idioms.
GOALS OF THE DICTIONARY
A major goal of this dictionary is to make certain
that each definition of a phrase illustrates the
meaning of the phrase and matches it in syntax.
The ... Tom
stay ahead of Tom
keep clear of the doors
remain clear of the doors
stand clear of the doors
If each of these idiomatic expressions were a sep-
arate entry, it would be repetitious and difficult
for...
... out of a situation,
no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem.
Idioms 1 of 49
Dictionary ofEnglishIdioms & Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary ofEnglishIdioms ... from the
dictionary definitions of the individual words, which can make them hard for ESL students
and learners to understand. Here, we have a dictionaryof 1059 English idiomatic
expressions ... piece of string?
If someone has no idea of the answer to a question, they can ask 'How long is a piece of
string?' as a way of indicating their ignorance.
Hue and cry
Idioms 24 of...
... study on Englishidioms on
natural and geographical phenomena into Vietnamese the equivalent and non-
equivalent between Vietnamese andEnglish idioms.
Being aware of the fact that idioms are extremely ... Explanation…………………………………………………17
CHAPTER 2. TRANSLATION OFENGLISHIDIOMS ON NATURAL
AND GEOGRAPHICAL PHENOMENA INTO
VIETNAMESE………18
2.1 The meanings ofEnglishidioms on natural and geographical
phenomenon………………………………………………………………….1
8 ... is
to make it clear and to get more comprehensive and specific understanding.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
In order to learn Englishidioms on natural and geographical phenomena and
Vietnamese equivalent...
... (regulatory body)
Ofsted Office for Standards in Education (regulatory body)
OFT Office of Fair Trading
Oftel Office of Telecommunications (regulatory body)
Ofwat Office of Water Services (regulatory ... manufacturer
OFFER Office of Electricity Regulation (regulatory body)
Ofgas Office of Gas Supply (regulatory body)
Oflot Office of the National Lottery (regulatory body)
Ofrail Office of the Railway Regulator ... care of
co. company
CO Commanding Officer
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language
COD cash on delivery
C of E Church of England
Comintern Communist International (1919–43)
COI Central Office of...
... about something.
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Common IdiomsandExpressions ThaoThy’s
Common Idiomsand Expressions
Here is a list of the most common idioms that you could expect to encounter.
1. ... mistakes!"
14. be in and out: be at and away from a place during a particular time.
"Could we postpone our meeting until tomorrow? I expect to be in and out of the office most of
the day today."
15. ... up and running: (for a technological process) be operational; be ready to use .
Sources: the Internet
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Common IdiomsandExpressions ThaoThy’s
“Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web has been up and...
... where
/
is the
number
of
rows
in the
table (and therefore
the
number
of
categories
for one of the
variables)
and
/
is the
number
of
columns
(the number
of
categories
for the
... codes, searching
for a
particular
se-
quence
of
codes,
or
counting
the
frequency
of the
occurrence
of
codes.
Programs designed
to
support
theory building permit development
of ... analysis
of
variance,
and
sev-
eral
other traditional analyses.
Wikoff
and
Miller
(1991)
give
an
example
of the use of
canonical cor-
relation
analysis
in a
longitudinal study
of
...
... articles and reviews from newspapers, magazines, and trade
publications; confidential reports from state and national censor boards; and, beginning in
1934, a copy of the official Code certificate ... correspondence and memos, and the left side for censorship reports. The office staff
also clipped and filed film reviews, which were stapled to sheets of paper and added to
the right side of the file ... may have danced to the
tune of the Breen Office at gunpoint, but once the Code Seal proved economically and
culturally profitable, they wore the emblem as a badge of honor.
A typical day at...