... 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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A bit much...
... 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...
... 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, idiomsand 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 idiomsand other expressions in sentences 11 – 20 mean,
then...
... /
expressions have a negative connotation and are not very polite, so you should be careful
how you use them!
8
Idioms and other expressions for describing character
and personality
anorak bigmouth bunny ... very
clever and important
)
10
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 ... sentence.
6
Idioms and other expressions using animals
bee bird cat chicken dog donkey duck fish fly goat
goose hen horse monkey pig rat shark whale
1. I always thought Laurence was rather shallow and...
... 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
21
3. Mr Taylor is the ... verbs, idiomsand other expressions using 'give'
25
1. I've finally managed to give off / out / up / in smoking. (
to stop doing something you do regularly
)
2. Ten thousand copies ... be the correct or suitable thing to do
)
Exercise 2
: Look at the idiomsand other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 25, and
choose a suitable definition or expression with a similar meaning...
... section looks at some common idiomsand other expressions that are not included in
the main exercises elsewhere in this book.
Each of the three idiomsand 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 idiomsand other expressions
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1....
... complete the phrasal verbs, idiomsand other expressions using
put in this story. You will need to use some of them more than once.
Phrasal verbs, idiomsand other expressions using 'put'
47
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 idiomsand other expressions in bold in sentences ... phrasal verb, idiom or
other expression using pick. Use between two and four words in each sentence.
46
Phrasal verbs, idiomsand other expressions using 'pick'
1. (a) They spent ages talking...
... 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...
... about something.
Sources: the Internet
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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. ... 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 ... 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...
... Literal and Non-Literal Use
of Idiomatic Expressions
Caroline Sporleder and Linlin Li
Saarland University
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66041 Saarbr
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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...
... 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
118
19. Idioms with Hand
119
20. English Idiomsand Phrases
120
21. Expressions ...
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14. British Idioms
31
15. Expressions with cold
32
16. Way Idioms
33
17. Idioms with come
34
18. Common English Idioms
35
19. Idioms with Hand
36
20. English Idiomsand Phrases
37
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Common English Idioms
Q1 Tom told Andrea that giant turtles had escaped from the city zoo and were eating only left-handed people....
... 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...
... himself
he injured himself
he made a bad mistake for himself
he damaged his body
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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...
...
into safety
away from danger
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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
say...