... 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 ... agree with them and argue.
At sea
If things are at sea, or all at sea, they are disorganized and chaotic.
At the coalface
If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, ... negative effect.
Come out of your shell
If someone comes out of their shell, they stop being shy and withdrawn and become more friendly and sociable.
Come rain or shine
If I say I'll be at...
... 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 ... floor, it is their turn to speak at a meeting.
Have your cake and eat it too
If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes ... make a clean break, you break away completely from something.
Clean hands
Someone with clean hands, or who keeps their hands clean, is not involved in illegal or immoral activities.
Clean sheet...
... Try to decide what the idiomsand other expressions in sentences 11 – 20 mean,
then check your answers in the back of the book.
Phrasal verbs, idiomsand other expressions using 'work'
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1. ... me.
Match the first part of each sentence on the left with its second part on the right, using the
idioms in bold to help you.
Idioms and other expressions using 'time'
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1. We've ... 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....
... /
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 ... words andexpressions 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 idiomsand other...
... 0000
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Phrasal verbs, idiomsand other expressions using 'get'
1. He was very rude to the teacher, but got down to / off with / away with it. (
He managed to do
something bad without being ... 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 from the box at the
bottom ... )
Down
( ij )
Idioms and other expressions using food and drink
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3. Mr Taylor is the best computer programmer I've ever met. He certainly knows his _____!
4. Don't _____ me with so many...
... 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.
☺
/ ... ones are wrong and replace them with a correct
particle(s). Each phrasal verb in its context is explained in italics at the end of each sentence.
Exer
cise 2: The idiomsand other expressions in...
... 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'
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across ... the middle and on the right. Match the prompt sentences with
the two parts of the follow-on sentences, and complete these follow-on sentences with a
phrasal verb using 'run' and a particle ... 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...
...
title, aims and objectives, scope, methods and design of the study.
Chapter II introduces an overview of English adjectives with the
definitions of adjectives andtheir semantic and syntactic ... similarities and differences
between English and Vietnamese adjectives in terms of their
functions,usages as well as orders. Both English and Vietnamese,
generally, can function as predicative and ... deeply understand English adjectives, in chapter
II the writer has presented an overview of the English adjectives withtheir
definitions right at the beginning as well as semantic and syntactic...
... about something.
Sources: the Internet
4
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
1
Common IdiomsandExpressions ThaoThy’s
“Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web has been up and ... exhausted.
Sources: the Internet
2
Common IdiomsandExpressions ThaoThy’s
"I'm going to lie down for a while. I'm really bushed."
40. by oneself: alone and without help.
"I can't...
... march in there, and present yourself for the
position.
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12. Low-key. Relaxed and quiet. Simple.
13. Like a chicken with its head cut off. Moving around quickly and
crazily, as if without reason ... 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...
...
Idioms can convey that the current situation being described has a resemblance with past
history, and in that sense they may be similar to analogies or metaphors. Learning some
key idiomsand ...
emphasis and understood the body language and facial expressions. To master idioms
really requires to understand them intellectually (perhaps by first reading) and also to
hear them used properly ... me/us/him(someone) a hand (2) – Def 1 W – (also: lend a hand), to give some
form of assistance with a task. Declarative, persuasive. Could you give these guys a hand
with this shipment?
Def...
... Washington and Taipei do
not put a stop to their ”incendiary gesticulations.”
3
Idioms may, of course, link to the surrounding discourse
with theiridiomatic meaning, i.e., for play with fire one ... Literal and Non-Literal Use
of Idiomatic Expressions
Caroline Sporleder and Linlin Li
Saarland University
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbr
¨
ucken, Germany
{csporled,linlin}@coli.uni-saarland.de
Abstract
We ... relatively sta-
ble, with accuracies above 50% for most idioms.
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In particular, the classifier performs well on both,
expressions with a dominant non-literal meaning
and those with a dominant literal...
... discusses the lexical knowledge of
idioms for idiom recognition. The chal-
lenges are that idioms can be ambiguous
between literal andidiomatic meanings,
and that they can be “transformed” when
expressed ... between literal andidiomaticmeanings
and “transformations” that idioms could un-
dergo.
4
In fact, the mistranslation in (1) is caused
by the inability of disambiguation between the two
meanings. ... in a sentence withtheir ambiguity and trans-
formations taken into account. In fact, most of
them only create catalogs of Japanese idiom: col-
lecting idioms as many as possible and classifying
them...
... quantifiers with frequency f.
Figure 5 shows the posterior probability of the
correct meanings for the quantifiers ‘a’, ‘another’
and ‘any’ over the course of training with 1, 3,
5 and 7 candidate meanings ... sentences onto their mean-
ings, in contrast to the work mentioned above and
that of Gibson and Wexler (1994), Siskind (1992)
Sakas and Fodor (2001), and Yang (2002). These
all evaluate their learners ... both withand without
word-meaning guessing. When a word has never
been seen at training time our parser has the abil-
ity to ‘guess’ a typed logical meaning with place-
holders for constant and...