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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx
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... your feet, you are in the process of gaining confidence and experience in something.
Fine and dandy
(UK) If thing's are fine and dandy, then everything is going well.
Fine tuning
Small ... something.
Fingers and thumbs
If you are all fingers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands.
Fire away
If you want to ask someone a question and they tell you ...
Burning question
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... end.
Climb on the bandwagon
When people climb on the bandwagon they do something because it is popular and everyone else is doing it.
Close at hand
If something is close at hand, it is nearby ... This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
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, ... someone red-handed
If someone is caught red-handed, they are found doing something wrong or illegal.
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
(USA) If someone is caught with his or her hand in the...
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Idioms and other expressions using ''time''
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... job
2. Boring and detailed work, such as examining documents for mistakes, can be described as…
(a) hammer and chisel work (b) nut and bolt work (c) bucket and spade work (d) pick
and shovel work
3. ... of phrasal verbs that use turn, and decide
which particle or particles (around, back, on, etc) can be used to complete them.
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'turn'
1. ... example,
present continuous, past simple, etc), and an appropriate particle or particles, to make
phrasal verbs.
Exer
cise 2: Try to decide what the idioms and other expressions in sentences 11 – 20 mean,
then...
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Idioms and other expressions using animals
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... /
expressions have a negative connotation and are not very polite, so you should be careful
how you use them!
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Idioms and other expressions for describing character
and personality
anorak bigmouth bunny ... very
clever and important
)
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Idioms and other expressions using clothes
There are several items of clothing hidden in the box below. You will find these by reading
from left to right and from ... words and expressions in bold with a phrasal verb from the box.
You will need to use some of the phrasal verbs more than once.
Exer
cise 2: Decide if the definitions given for the idioms and other...
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''do''
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... correct or suitable thing to do
)
Exercise 2
: Look at the idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 25, and
choose a suitable definition or expression with a similar meaning from the ... sentences with items of food or drink, and write your answers in the
crossword grid on the next page.
Acr
oss ( ı )
Down
( ij )
Idioms and other expressions using food and drink
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3. Mr Taylor is the ... eight, and within seconds I was _____ asleep.
11. Mike has got loads of money. He's _____ rich.
Choose the word or words in bold to complete the phrasal verbs, idioms and other
expressions...
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''go''
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... section looks at some common idioms and other expressions that are not included in
the main exercises elsewhere in this book.
Each of the three idioms and other expressions in bold in the following ... were
experiencing the feelings, emotions, etc, highlighted in bold?
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Idioms and other expressions to talk about health,
feelings and emotions
1. Amanda is at her wits' end.
☺
/
2. Ian is in a state.
☺
/ ... case, and write it
in the sentence. Make sure that you use it in its correct form. The meaning of each idiom
is explained in italics at the end of each sentence.
Mixed idioms and other expressions
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1....
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''pick''
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... complete the phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using
put in this story. You will need to use some of them more than once.
Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'put'
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across ... wish she would take a _____ and leave me
alone. (
understand what someone wants you to do, even though they do not say it directly
)
Exercise 2
: The idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences ... phrasal verb, idiom or
other expression using pick. Use between two and four words in each sentence.
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'pick'
1. (a) They spent ages talking...
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the big red book of spanish idioms - 4000 idiomatic expressions
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... used
idiomatic and colloquial expressions in Spanish and almost 8,000
English translations. Particular care has been taken to match like with
like, so that Spanish idioms are matched with idiomatic ... RED
BOOK OF
SPANISH IDIOMS
Peter Weibel
12,000
SPANISH AND ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS
Acknowledgments
I wish to convey my special thanks to Kim, my wife, and Ron Nagel. Their
help and support made it ... commonly used Spanish expressions that are often
difficult to find in standard dictionaries. My sources have been as diverse
as the expressions themselves: Nobel Prize–winning authors and Juan
Pérez (the...
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Tài liệu Common Idioms and Expressions pdf
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... about something.
Sources: the Internet
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Common Idioms and Expressions ThaoThy’s
Common Idioms and Expressions
Here is a list of the most common idioms that you could expect to encounter.
1. ... up and running: (for a technological process) be operational; be ready to use .
Sources: the Internet
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Common Idioms and Expressions ThaoThy’s
“Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web has been up and ... Bob. He's a know-it-all and won't pay attention to
anything you say."
126. know something backwards and forwards: know/understand something
completely and thoroughly.
"If you...
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Tài liệu EASY AMERICAN IDIOMS Hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give you an edge in English! ppt
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... here.
Jeff: And here you both are.Well, come on in and shake off
the dust. You can freshen up, and I’ll whip up some of
my famous guacamole and a drink or two. We can
relax on the porch and catch ... and R. Rest and Relaxation.
14. To recharge the batteries. To rest and regain physical and
psychological strength.
15. A weekend getaway. A place to go to for the weekend where you
can rest and ... Carolyn Roth,
and Tom Marshall.
Copyright â 2006 by Living Language, an imprint of Random House, Inc.
Living Language is a member of the Random House Information Group
Living Language and colophon...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions" potx
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... Literal and Non-Literal Use
of Idiomatic Expressions
Caroline Sporleder and Linlin Li
Saarland University
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbr
ă
ucken, Germany
{csporled,linlin}@coli.uni-saarland.de
Abstract
We ... EACL-06.
Afsaneh Fazly, Paul Cook, and Suzanne Stevenson. To
appear. Unsupervised type and token identification
of idiomatic expressions. Computational Linguis-
tics.
M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hasan. 1976. Cohesion ... (Lapata and Keller, 2005). When generat-
ing the queries we made sure that we queried for
all combinations of inflected forms (for example
“fire AND coal” would be expanded to “fire AND
coal”, “fires AND...
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82 english idioms and expressions tests
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... www.english-test.net
15. Expressions with cold
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16. Way Idioms
116
17. Idioms with come
117
18. Common English Idioms
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19. Idioms with Hand
119
20. English Idioms and Phrases
120
21. Expressions ...
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14. British Idioms
31
15. Expressions with cold
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16. Way Idioms
33
17. Idioms with come
34
18. Common English Idioms
35
19. Idioms with Hand
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20. English Idioms and Phrases
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Common English Idioms
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Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx
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... boxing.
Belt and braces
(UK) Someone who wears belt and braces is very cautious and takes no risks.
Belt and suspenders
(USA) Someone who wears belt and suspenders is very cautious and takes ... This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
Go hand in hand
If things go hand in hand, they are associated and go together.
Go nuts
If someone goes nuts, they get excited ... someone red-handed
If someone is caught red-handed, they are found doing something wrong or illegal.
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
(USA) If someone is caught with his or her hand in the...
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English Idioms and Expressions – Intermediate level''''sarchiveSend the right message ppt
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... himself
he injured himself
he made a bad mistake for himself
he damaged his body
English Idioms and Expressions – Intermediate level's
archive
Send the right message
1. This sort of ... sorry I can't follow that, run that past me again.
explain that once more
hurry up
try and catch me up
come across
6. Keep your spirits up, it may not be as bad as you think.
Don't...
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English Idioms and Expressions – Intermediate level''''sarchiveUp to his ears pptx
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...
into safety
away from danger
English Idioms and Expressions – Intermediate level's
archive
Up to his ears
1. He's up to his ears in work and cannot possibly see you
now.
fully ... through her hat and refused
to accept a word of what she said.
talking sense
talking straight
2. If you give me a hand, then I shall be able to finish more
quickly.
take my hand
help me ... facing them
looking at them
seeing them
4. The manager dismissed the new proposal out of hand
and said that it was not at all practical.
quickly
utterly
directly
simply
fall over...
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