Tài liệu CAMBRIGDE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS CHƯƠNG 1 pptx

... Street, New York, NY 10 011 -4 211 , USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarc6n 13 , 28 014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 80 01, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © ... groups of idioms which all usethe samefigurative meaning of the keyword. In such cases,a note explains the figurative meaning and all the idioms which fol...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 13:15

... snook the cock of the walk COCKLES warm the cockles of your heart COFFEE a coffee table book Wake up and smell the coffee! COFFIN another nail in the coffin the fmal nail in the coffin COG a cog ... act ACTION a piece/slice of the action be all talk (and no action) be out of action fight a rearguard action put sb out of action: see be out of action put sth out of action: see be...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:16

... Key 468 0 0 0 1 d 1 over the moon 1 c 2 a 2 got the message 2 d 3 e 3 was on 3 a 4 b tenterhooks 4e 5 c 4 take your hat 5 b off to 5 try my hand at • • et 1 be left holding 1 nose 1 houses the ... own horn • • • 1 at 1 cried 1 fat cats 2 from 2 eats 2 dark horse 3 for 3 log/top 3 Achilles heel 4 about 4 trooper 4 sour grapes 5 with 5 went down 5 red tape Cl» • • 1 pressure...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15

... Most of the music they play is pretty middle -of- the-road. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. mask make a martyr of him from the point of view of the international ... mother lode of sth American a large collection of a particular type of thing. His collectionof lettersand papers is a mother lodeof information for writers and journali...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15

... the cockles of your heart. coffee a coffee table book a large, expensive book with a lot of pictures, that is often kept on a table for people to look at • A glossy coffee table bookof his art ... in the clutches of a religiousfanatic. C-note a C-note American, informal a piece of paper American money that is worth 10 0dollars. Joe took a wad of bills out of his pocket, peeled of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15

... native go off at a tangent go off at half-cock go off half-cocked: see go off at half-cock go off on a tangent go off the boil go off the deep end go off the rails go off your rocker: see be off your ... this watermark. FULLNESS be full of beans be full of bull be full of crap/ shit be full of holes be full of piss and vinegar be full of ihe joys of spring be full of yourself...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15

... schemes. the pick of sth the best of a group of things or people • Send inyour poems and wewillprint the pick of the bunch. have your pick of sth if you can have your pick of a group of things, you ... watermark. off-chance off-chance off·colour be off-colour British & Australian be off-col or American &Australian to not be feeling as well as usual' He had flu a cou...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15

... pat: see learn sth off pat learn sth off pat off and on off-calor: see off-colour off-colour off limits off sb's hands off-the-cuff off the cuff: see off-the-cuff off the hook off the peg off the record off ... sb OF be (all) of a piece be of the essence OFF a mile off be off base be off beam be off-color: see be off-colour be off-colour be off the hook be off the hook: see get/let...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:16

... once the raison d'etre of the festival but it has now been replacedby comedyand cabaretshows. rake-off a rake-off informal a share of the profits of something, often taken in a way that is ... roof a roof over your head somewhere to live. We didn't have any money, but at least we had a roof over our heads andfood in our stomachs. the roof caves/falls in American if the roof c...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:16

... the Romans do). ROOF a roof over your head be like a cat on a hot tin roof go through the roof hit the ceiling/roof raise the roof the roof caves/falls in ROOFTOPS shout sth from the roof tops ROOM elbowroom not ... conversation piece a piece/ slice of the action be a nasty piece of work be a piece of cake be a piece of piss be (all) of a piece give sb a piece of your mind How lon...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:16