... wears __________
TEST 9:Direction: Supply a correct preposition into the given space.
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IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
TEST 1: Complete the following sentences with one appropriate word.
Example: He ... Here comes a bus. Before you _______________, ask the driver if he stops near the library.
20. Tom used to he a professional football player, hut he had to _______________ (it) because of a knee ... __________ her mother’s lap.
9. Shall I make the cheque (19) __________ (20) __________ you?
10. She accused her husband of setting the children ____________ her.
TEST 8:Direction: Fill in the blank with...
...
If something is completely disorganised or confused, it is all over the place.
All over the shop
If something is completely disorganised or confused, it is all over the shop.
All roads lead ... spread the risk. (This is often used
as a negative imperative- 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket'. 'Have your eggs in one basket' is also used. )
All's fair in ... bravely with a problem.
Grass roots
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters. It can be used to mean people at
the bottom of a hierarchy.
Grass...
...
If something is completely disorganised or confused, it is all over the place.
All over the shop
If something is completely disorganised or confused, it is all over the shop.
All roads lead ... spread the risk. (This is often used
as a negative imperative- 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket'. 'Have your eggs in one basket' is also used. )
All's fair in ... strategy or option that could be used to achieve your objective.
As a rule
If you do something as a rule, then you usually do it.
As cold as ice
This idiom can be used to describe a person who...
... one to do something. This expression is used to
communicate someone’s typical or characteristic behavior.
Notice that this expression is most commonlyused in the
negative.
3. To throw in the ... since they were kids and I’m still green. But
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Edited by Christopher Warnasch
... greatly
resemble one of their parents in personality or behavior.
5. You don’t say. An expression used to show mild surprise, like
saying “really?”This can also be a sarcastic expression, to show
that...
... becoming on my girlfriend.
(no) bed of roses
- a situation that is happy and comfortable (usually used in the negative)
The new job was very difficult and certainly no bed of roses.
(have a) ... feels bad to feel worse, to make a bad situation worse
Our boss added insult to injury when she refused to let us use the telephone and
computers during lunch.
add up
- to total up to a certain ... was the black sheep of the family and nobody liked him.
blast off
- to shoot into the sky (used for a rocket)
The rocket blasted off at noon.
blaze a trail (in something)
- to create...
... observation that literally used expres-
sions typically exhibit cohesive ties with the sur-
rounding discourse, while idiomatic expressions
do not. Hence idiomaticexpressions can be de-
tected ... form expressions as this is pre-
cisely the set of expressions that would be classi-
fied as idiomatic by the unsupervised CForm clas-
sifier (Cook et al. (2007), Fazly et al. (To appear)).
While expressions ... 2007;
Katz and Giesbrecht, 2006), we focused mainly on
expressions of the form V+NP or V+PP as this is
a fairly large group and many of these expressions
can be used literally as well, making them...
... I developed
this dictionary of commonlyused Spanish expressions that are often
difficult to find in standard dictionaries. My sources have been as diverse
as the expressions themselves: Nobel Prize–winning ... understanding of Spanish. The dic-
tionary contains a broad collection of over 4,000 commonly used
idiomatic and colloquial expressions in Spanish and almost 8,000
English translations. Particular care ... del toro y caer en el ~)
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Acknowledgments vi
Introduction vii
Spanish-English Idiomatic Dictionary 1
English-Spanish Dictionary and Index 209
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Clone
These trees were propagated by cuttings.
Terms Commonly
Used in Tree Improvement
Khongsak Pinyopusarerk
CSIRO/Ensis-Genetics
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Genotype
ã ... of interbreeding individuals.
No degree of relationship is assumed.
ã The term Stand is often used
synonymously.
...
...
If something is completely disorganized or confused, it is all over the place.
All over the shop
If something is completely disorganized or confused, it is all over the shop.
All over the show ... spread
the risk. (This is often used as a negative imperative- 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket'.
'Have your eggs in one basket' is also used. )
All's fair in ... don't go into debt.
Bottom line
In accountancy, the bottom line is net income, and is used idiomatically to mean the
conclusion.
Bounce off the walls
If someone's bouncing off...
... or things
There were all manner of people at the party.
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Commonly- Used Idioms, Sayings and phrasal verbs
What is the meaning of idioms?
Words that come together ... something has happened
The man said that he was sorry but it was after the fact. He had already caused many
problems.
.
against one's will
- to be without a person's consent...
... girls walked arm in arm to school.
armed and dangerous
- to have a weapon that may be used (usually used for a criminal)
The criminal was armed and dangerous when the police arrested him. ... sweetness and light after she does something bad.
all systems go
- everything is ready (often used when a rocket is launched)
It was all systems go so we began the installation of the new computer...