most commonly used american idiomatic expressions

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Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 11:00

... one to do something. This expression is used to communicate someone’s typical or characteristic behavior. Notice that this expression is most commonly used in the negative. 3. To throw in the ... since, for most of the guys on that team, rowing is old hat. They’ve been at it since they were kids and I’m still green. But LE SS ON 28 EASY AMERI C AN IDIOMS Hundreds of idiomatic expressions ... there . . . She was in a bad mood that day . . . I almost lost my nerve—I thought she was gonna turn me down! Allison: He’s right . . . I almost left him in the park. I had a terrible migraine....

Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 10:33

... _______________ in the country, but I’ve spent most of my life living in cities. 7. Jane plays the piano beautifully. She _______________ her father who used to he a concert pianist. 8. Jeff is over ... soon wears __________ TEST 9:Direction: Supply a correct preposition into the given space. 3 IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TEST 1: Complete the following sentences with one appropriate word. Example: He ... __________ 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...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2013, 01:26

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 15:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21

... several months when he was a young man. at sea (about something) - to be confused about something, to be lost Most members of the class were at sea when the teacher tried to explain the difficult ... distance We tried to keep the dog at bay when we entered the building. at best - under the most favorable circumstances The doctors said that the man had ten months at best to live. at ... something, the value that is printed on a stamp or a bond At face value the old stamp was worth almost nothing. Mr_doody2004@yahoo.com 7 ahead of schedule - before the time on a schedule...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 20:36

... observation that literally used expres- sions typically exhibit cohesive ties with the sur- rounding discourse, while idiomatic expressions do not. Hence idiomatic expressions can be de- tected ... words of a potentially idiomatic expression do not participate in any lexical chain, it is likely that the expression is indeed used idiomatically, otherwise it is prob- ably used literally. For ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... 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 has been taken ... I developed this dictionary of commonly used Spanish expressions that are often difficult to find in standard dictionaries. My sources have been as diverse as the expressions themselves: Nobel Prize–winning ... (fam.) i¡El que venga detrás, que arree! (fig.) Devil take the hindmost. (prov.) Every man for himself [and the devil take the hindmost]. arreglar to arrange iarreglárselas (fam.) to manage, to get...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:37

... 140° 10° 20° 0500 Kilometres 32 31 30 29 28 27 25 26 1 6 1 9 22 15 24 23 21 17 18 14 13 1-12 20 WA NT QLD Clone These trees were propagated by cuttings. Terms Commonly Used in Tree Improvement Khongsak Pinyopusarerk CSIRO/Ensis-Genetics Canberra, Australia Genotype • ... of interbreeding individuals. No degree of relationship is assumed. • The term “Stand” is often used synonymously. ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... lô gic logical (adj) /'lɔdʤikəl/ hợp lý, hợp logic 3000 English Commonly Used words 29 TVN Center 5 th Floor 292 Tay Son, Đong Đa, Ha Noi Tel: (84 4) ... nữa, ngoài ra, vả lại morning (n) /'mɔ:niɳ/ buổi sáng most det., pro (n) (adv) /moust/ lớn nhất, nhiều nhất; nhất, hơn cả mostly (adv) /´moustli/ hầu hết, chủ yếu là mother (n) /'mΔðз/ ... confuse (v) làm lộn xộn, xáo trộn confusing (adj) /kən'fju:ziη/ khó hiểu, gây bối rối confused (adj) /kən'fju:zd/ bối rối, lúng túng, ngượng confusion (n) /kən'fju:ʒn/ sự lộn...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 09:50

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 03:20

... people or things There were all manner of people at the party. Mr_doody2004@yahoo.com 1 Commonly- Used Idioms, Sayings and phrasal verbs What is the meaning of idioms? Words that come together ... something The woman is all for the manager and she never criticizes her. all important - most important, urgent or necessary The meeting is all important and I plan to attend it. all ... point of doing something I was about to leave my house when the phone rang. above all else - most importantly of all Above all else, I plan to go to the Natural History Museum when I visit...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20