...
Burning question
Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand
www.dk -english. com
Page 1
Dictionary ofEnglishIdiomsand Idiomatic Expressions
By Dorking School ofEnglish
~ A ~
A bit much
If ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand
www.dk -english. com
Page 20
Death of a thousand cuts
If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... spend most of their leisure time horizontal in front of
the TV and eats a diet that is mainly junk food.
Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand
www.dk -english. com
Page 44
Labour of love...
...
Someone who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy.
Full of the joys of spring
If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy.
Full swing
If ... expert in the arts and literature, and often a writer too.
Man of means
A man, or woman, of means is wealthy.
Man of parts
A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas ...
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, they change the subject completely in the middle of a...
... 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 ... fairly commonly
known idioms.
GOALS OF THE DICTIONARY
A major goal of this dictionary is to make certain
that each definition of a phrase illustrates the
meaning of the phrase and matches it in syntax.
The ... idiomatic. This dictionary is a
collection of the idiomatic phrasesand sentences
that occur frequently in American English. Many
of them occur in some fashion in other varieties
of English also.
Many...
... out of a situation,
no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem.
Idioms 1 of 49
Dictionary ofEnglishIdioms & Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary ofEnglishIdioms ... piece of string?
If someone has no idea of the answer to a question, they can ask 'How long is a piece of
string?' as a way of indicating their ignorance.
Hue and cry
Idioms 24 of ... different from the
dictionary definitions of the individual words, which can make them hard for ESL students
and learners to understand. Here, we have a dictionaryof 1059 English idiomatic
expressions...
... eye and Peggy Martin
(UK) An idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north
Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the ... John
letter.
Death of a thousand cuts
If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of
small bad things are happening, none of which are fatal in ...
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 over something.
Go off on a tangent
If someone goes off on...
... xe hạng Nặng trên xa lộ
28482848
2848
PowerPower
Power
ofof
of
AttorneyAttorney
Attorney
andand
and
DeclarationDeclaration
Declaration
ofof
of
RepresentativeRepresentative
Representative
Mẫu đơn ...
-
22
2
WageWage
Wage
andand
and
TaxTax
Tax
StatementStatement
Statement
Mẫu đơn W-2 để khai Lương và
Thuế
WW
W
-
33
3
TransmittalTransmittal
Transmittal
ofof
of
WageWage
Wage
andand
and
TaxTax
Tax
StatementsStatements
Statements
Mẫu ... 850 (EN/VN) 21
EnglishEnglish
English
toto
to
VietnameseVietnamese
Vietnamese
AA
A
abandonedabandoned
abandoned
spousespouse
spouse
vợ/chồng bị bỏ rơi
abandonmentabandonment
abandonment
sự bỏ...
...
first candidate parse is the only correct parse, because it
has all of the bracket labels and parts -of- speech of the
treebank parse. The second candidate parse is incorrect,
since two of its ...
broad but not unrestricted range of sentence types and
the availability of large corpora of computer manuals. We
amassed a corpus of 40 million words, consisting of several
hundred computer manuals. ... mappings from the terminals and non-
terminals of our grammar to those of the Lancaster tree-
bank are provided in Table 5. For ease of understanding,
we use the version of our grammar in which...
... study on Englishidioms on
natural and geographical phenomena into Vietnamese the equivalent and non-
equivalent between Vietnamese andEnglish idioms.
Being aware of the fact that idioms are extremely ... Explanation…………………………………………………17
CHAPTER 2. TRANSLATION OFENGLISHIDIOMS ON NATURAL
AND GEOGRAPHICAL PHENOMENA INTO
VIETNAMESE………18
2.1 The meanings ofEnglishidioms on natural and geographical
phenomenon………………………………………………………………….1
8 ... is
to make it clear and to get more comprehensive and specific understanding.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
In order to learn Englishidioms on natural and geographical phenomena and
Vietnamese equivalent...
... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal of the project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford DictionaryofEnglish
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New Oxford Dictionary of
English)
so that it contains ...
Oxford DictionaryofEnglish (ODE)
is a
high-level dictionary intended for fluent English
speakers (especially native speakers) rather than
for learners. Hence its coverage is very extensive,
and ... structure and defining style, while mostly
conforming broadly to a small set of basic patterns
and formulae, may often be more concerned with
detail and accuracy than with simplicity of expla-
nation....
... carefully and remember about ST
- Set of golf clubs: gậy đánh golf
- Imposing view of: cảnh tượng bệ vệ oai nghiêm
- Put more effort into ST
- Be discouraged from doing ST:
- Get a taste of expedition ... attention to ST
- Be in the right frame of mind: ở tâm trạng thoải mái, tốt
- Take ST in one’s stride: vượt qua cái gì một cách dễ dàng
SOME USEFUL IDIOMSANDPHRASES (part1)
1/
- be on probation ... ST/to do ST: khao khát, không ngừng mong muốn làm j
- The course of history: tiến trình lịch sử
- A slump of sugar
- A clove of garlic: 1 nhánh tỏi
- Have s slump in one’s/ the throat: nghẹn...