idioms and fixed expressions in english

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... success. Find your feet When you are finding your feet, you are in the process of gaining confidence and experience in something. Fine and dandy (UK) If thing's are fine and dandy, then ... something. In the swing If things are in the swing, they are progressing well. In the twinkling of an eye If something happens in the twinkling of an eye, it happens very quickly. In turn ... of being made. In the offing If something is in the offing, it is very likely to happen soon. In the pink If you are in very good health, you are in the pink. In the pipeline If something's...

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... something positive, it's a blessing in disguise. Blind as a bat If you are in total darkness and can't see anything at all, you are as blind as a bat. Blind leading the blind When ... mind their own business and not interfere in other people's affairs. Mind Your P's and Q's If you are careful about the way you behave and are polite, you mind Your P's and ... rather than sitting in a office discussing things in a detached way. Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 31 Gone pear-shaped (UK) If things have gone pear-shaped...

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Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:54

... pretends to work is said to be… (a) swinging a cat (b) swinging both ways (c) swinging the lead (d) swinging the balance 15. Someone who is out of work and claiming money from the government can ... who call in sick on Monday are pulling a fast one. (a) Working too hard the rest of the week, and not relaxing enough during their free time. (b) Pretending something that is not true in order ... these sentences. Idioms and other expressions used for talking about work 63 1. Sue has always been a high-flier. (a) Someone who has achieved a lot and is determined to continue being successful. (b)...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 10:20

... 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 ... definitions given for the idioms and other expressions in bold are true or false. Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'cut' 15 cut across cut back on cut down on cut in ... of clothing to complete the idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 20. You will need to use some of the items more than once, and you may need to change the form from singular...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 10:20

... verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'give' 25 1. I've finally managed to give off / out / up / in smoking. ( to stop doing something you do regularly ) 2. Ten thousand copies ... ( something that is needed in order to achieve something, in this case to get the printer to start working ) 11. We spent a week in Paris, and __________. ( to visit all the most important and famous ... or suitable thing to do ) Exercise 2 : Look at the idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 25, and choose a suitable definition or expression with a similar meaning from the box...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 10:20

... some common idioms and other expressions that are not included in the main exercises elsewhere in this book. Each of the three idioms and other expressions in bold in the following sentence ... were experiencing the feelings, emotions, etc, highlighted in bold? 28 Idioms and other expressions to talk about health, feelings and emotions 1. Amanda is at her wits' end. ☺ /  2. Ian is in a ... According to this story in the paper, a child in the USA is divorcing his parents. Huh! Now I've ________ everything! ( a spoken expression used for saying that you find something very shocking...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 10:20

... understand and remember something that you hear or read ) 11. Could you take me _____ the rules again, please? ( to explain to someone in detail how something should be done, what something is ... making her angry. ( to do something that may have a bad result ) 2. I've been working hard all day, and I'm beginning to run out of _____. ( to become too tired to finish something ) 3. ... running a very high _____. ( to be very hot because you are ill ) 5. I must hurry. I'm running a bit _____ this morning. ( doing things or arriving in places later than planned ) 6. I think...

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... Laboratoires and the Information Sciences Institute. 1 The analysis is based on a higher order intansional logic described in detail in Hinrichs, Ayuso and Scha (1987). Tem- poral expressions of English ... arrive in Hawaii? The person asking (39b) is not interested in being informed about all ships that at some time in the fu- ture will go to Hawaii. Instead, the user is interested in a much ... time t s in the Indian Ocean and whose members y at some time t have the property of being a ship and which are in addition distinguished by some contextually salient property R. POW stands for...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... the training data and thus missing unlikely but good candidates. 4 Work in Progress 4.1 Datasets A common set of 1,423 source English names and their transliterations 2 in Mandarin Chinese ... consid- ered in addition to grapheme mapping for han- dling Cantonese data. 5 Future Work and Conclusion Thus we have compared E2C between Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, and discussed work in progress ... syl- lable initial /d/ may surface as in Baghdad 巴格 達 ba1-ge2-da2, but the syllable final /d/ is not represented. This is true for Mandarin Chinese, but since ending stops like –p, –t and –k are...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... types. They contain to-infinitive which is introduced by WH – word, ing clause and bare infinitive. + To – infinitive: [142] To climb mountains requires courage ( To infinitive clause) ... 3. Indefinite pronoun The indefinite pronouns are so named because they refer to things or people in a vague or general way. The indefinite pronoun is classified into indefinite person of thing ... person of thing and indefinite quantities. - Indefinite person or things such as: Somebody Someone Something Everybody Anybody Anyone Anything Everyone Nobody No one Nothing [174]...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:09

... Instructing writing and reading numeral exactly. 3. Scope of the study Numeral in English is a wide category including: mathematic, technology, business….therefore I only collect numbers used in ... and with the help of my friends the experience gained at the training time , I have put my mind on theme : ―writing and reading numeral in English for my graduation paper . Documents for ... in our everyday world but remain mysterious in our imaginations. Numbers in Life, Life in Numbers. The Numbers within Our Lives: Early conceptual underpinnings of numbers were used to express...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:14

... textbooks on English writing in Korea, however, few textbooks explain sentence punctuation in English. → There are many textbooks on English writing in Korea; however, few textbooks explain sentence ... Clause Subordinate Clause Main Clause + Main Clause + Main Clause + Subordinate Clause Main Clause + 25 English Writing Lab http://www.hanyangowl.org 2009 HYU Center for Teaching and Learning and Adam Turner These ... (WSI) increased when both temperature and chlorine concentration increased. No abbreviations in subheadings 3.3 Abbreviations: Don’t introduce abbreviations in subheadings 8 Abbreviations in body...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 08:20

... Skimming and scanning an email message instead of reading every word can help you to find the keywords and understand the message much quicker. Read less and understand more! Skimming: this ... Friday) 14 www.kaojaienglishschool.com info@kaojaienglishschool.com THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO READING AND WRITING EMAILS IN ENGLISH By Brian McCarthy Brian McCarthy is a leading expert in English language ... to writing emails in English that are easy to write, easy to read and easy to understand. Intermediate Intermediate is for students and professionals that have more experience using English...

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