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... language lab. The idioms are presented in reading, writing, speaking, and lis- tening activities because idioms occur in all these aspects of American English. People commonly believe that idioms are ... for FAMILY Reading Selection: Growing Up give birth to tell apart grow up take care of bring up 15 COMMUNICATION Reading Selection: Get in Touch Idioms: call up get in touch...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 22:15

... number of Vietnamese and English idioms can be found in many books, dictionaries of other authors and there have been quite a lot of MA and BA theses on various aspects of English and Vietnamese ... into English and Vietnamese IPOA in terms of their syntactic and semantic features in order to help learners use and practise idioms in general and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... Sayings and Eliza- beth Kirkpatrick in NTC’s English Idioms Dictionary. About This Dictionary xiii xi About This Dictionary NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary is designed for easy use by lifelong speakers ... the dictionary. The compiler has included idiomatic phrases drawn from or suggested by Anne Bertram in NTC’s Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés, NTC’s Dictionary of Eu...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 00:20

... â 2007 by The McGraw- Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of use. blue blood to marry his son. 2. Fig. a person of aristocratic or wealthy ancestry. ᮀ Because his great-grandparents made ... Tom is the apple of Mary’s eye. She thinks he’s the greatest. apple-polisher Fig. a flatterer. ᮀ Doesn’t that wimpy apple-pol- isher know how stupid he looks? *an arm and a leg Fig. a great amou...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 09:07

... Use This Dictionary xii 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 ... collocations, idioms, idiomatic expressions, clichés, proverbs, set phrases, fixed phrases, phrasal verbs, common phrases, prepositional verbs, and phrasal/ prepos...

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Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:50

... fees. Commonly-Used Idioms, Sayings and phrasal verbs - "S" Idioms Mr_doody2004@yahoo.com 750 saved by the bell - to be rescued from a difficult ... sale. show Idioms show -and- tell - to present something interesting to a class (in elementary school) The little boy took a starfish from the ocean to his school f...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 20:20

... sympathy system get something out of one’s system systems all systems (are) go T done to a T NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 588 up wrapped up in someone or something up wrap something up up write ... build up to something to burned to a cinder to burn someone or something to a crisp NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 596 shot (all) shot to hell shot give something a s...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 12:20

... get into a mess into get into an argument (with someone ) into get into full swing NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 522 in not for (anything in) the world in not in the same league with someone ... tight rein on someone or something Keep Keep at it! keep keep at someone or something NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 526 It It never rains but it pours. It It (only) stands...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 12:20

... windmills at tip the scales at something at try one’s hand (at something ) NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 4 58 as happy as a lark as happy as can be as hard as a rock as hard as nails as ... tick as tight as Dick’s hatband as tough as an old boot as true as steel as ugly as a toad NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary 456 with impunity without risk of punish- ment; with immu...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 12:20

... happened at the office, she went stark raving mad. ᮀ You must be stark raving stark raving mad 377 of the economy. ᮀ When he launches forth, I leave the room. take one at one’s word to believe ... morning. ᮀ Mrs. Smith told Mr. Smith that he was too old to be sowing his wild oats. son of a bitch 372 throw oneself at the mercy of the court Go to throw oneself on the mercy of the co...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 12:20

... a wall, etc. ᮀ We’ll put a garage up next month. T The city put up a fence next to our house. 6. [with something] to pro- vide the money for something. ᮀ The government put the money up for ... is a sacred cow in the Smith family. Fred is regarded as a fail- ure because he quit school at 16. ᮀ Don’t talk about eating meat to Pam. Vegetari- anism is one of her sacred cows. sadder but ......

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 12:20

... they were. (Literal in reference to aiming a weapon.) ᮀ Even though you get lower one’s sights 255 Please make a check out to John Jones. T Do you want cash, or should I make out a check? make ... ᮀ We don’t like living here, but we have to make a go of it. make a clean breast of something 258 mad about someone or something Go to crazy about someone or something . mad as a hatter...

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