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... Dictionary of Idioms (10)(11)Preface The aim of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is to provide clear definitions of phrases and sayings for those who not know what they mean, but also to ... Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press ... they mean, but also to offer the curious reader interesting facts about the origins of phrases and examples of their use This second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is based on the

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2021, 11:23

... pp. 617- 648 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable /35 86515 . Accessed: 07/06/2011 22 :30 Your use of the JSTOR archive ... technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, ... composition (pp 3- 20) Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachersof English Murray, D.M (1985) A writer teaches writing (2nd ed.) Boston:... (2nd ed.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin Newell, G.E (19 84) Learningfrom

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:20

... ~ I ~ 22 ~ J ~ 24 ~ K ~ 24 ~ L ~ 25 ~ M ~ 27 ~ N ~ 30 ~ O ~ 31 ~ P ~ 33 ~ Q ~ 35 ~ R ~ 36 ~ S ~ 37 ~ T ~ 41 ~ U ~ 45 ~ V ~ 46 ~ W ~ 46 ~ X ~ 48 ~ Y ~ 49 ~ Z ~ 49 An idiom is ... Idioms 1 of 49 Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions 1 ~ A ~ 1 ~ B ~ 3 ~ C ~ 8 ~ D ~ 11 ~ E ~ 14 ~ F ~ 15 ... crazy Off-hand Off-hand means... fall fast asleep Out of pocket If you are out of pocket on a deal, you have lost money Out of sight, out of mind Out of sight, out of mind is used to

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 09:59

... disorganized and chaotic. At the bottom of the totem pole (USA) If someone is at the bottom of the totem pole, they are unimportant. Opposite is at the top of the totem pole. At the coalface If ... the top of the list, it is of highest priority, most important, most urgent, or the next in one's line of attention. At the top of your voice If you talk, shout or sing at the top of your ... have to go back to the drawing board, you have to go back to the beginning and start something again. Back to the salt mine If someone says they have to go back to the salt mine, they have to

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 03:20

... Thornburg, 20 03) . He is a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Linguistics and is on the advisory/referee board of several other journals. He is also a member of the editorial board of Benjamins’s ... (PhD 19 64) is emeritus professor of English linguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He was attracted to Cognitive Linguistics in the early 1990s and has worked mainly in the fields of lexical ... principle of semantic analysis, published in 19 93. Together with Friedrich Ungerer he wrote the first book-sized introductory text to the whole field of Cognitive Linguistics, An Introduction to Cognitive

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 01:20

... payment on a debt It took me ten years to pay off my credit card debt. pay * off + to bribe Don't try to pay the police officer off if you get pulled over for speeding. pick on + to tease, bully ... run * off + make leave The new government is trying to run the drug traffickers off. run * off reproduce (photocopies) Would you mind running off 10 copies of this document for me? run off leave ... before you move. show * off + show to everybody with a lot of pride He always shows off his new things. show off boast, draw attention to oneself Young boys show off in order to impress girls. show

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 11:20

... The age of the earth is 4. 6 ga. See Appendix C, 19 53, Patterson. galactosidase See alpha galactosidase, beta galac- tosidase. gain of function mutation a genetic lesion that causes a gene to be ... factor 9 34 1 .4 7 phenylketonuria phenylalanine hydroxylase 90 2 .4 12 cystic fibrosis CF transmembrane- 250 6.5 26 conductance regulator Duchenne muscular dystrophy dystrophin, plus shorter 230 0 ... formation of new combi- products of the two genes interact. The product of nations of genes in vitro by joining DNA fragments the resistance gene serves as a receptor for a ligand of interest to vectors

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 16:21

... PRINCIPLE OF. [...]... Learning of visceral and glandular responses Science, 1 63, 43 4 -44 5 Powers, W (1973a) Behavior: The control of perception Chicago: Aldine Powers, W (1973b) Feedback ... 206 239 Thorndike, E L (1911) Animal intelligence... Spence, K W (1 937 ) The differential response in animals to stimuli varying within a single dimension Psychological Review, 44 , 43 0 -44 4 Skinner, ... Review of Psychology, 29, 37 3 -40 4... THEORY OF DISTANCE See BERKELEY’S THEORY OF VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION CONTEXT THEORY OF MEANING See MEANING, THEORIES AND ASSESSMENTS OF CONTEXTUAL-CHANGE

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 11:21

... likely to recover failure to thrive failure to thrive /feljə tə θrav/ noun same as marasmus Nursing.fm Page 1 03 Monday, May 14, 2007 4: 47 PM faint 1 04 faint faint /fent/ verb to stop being ... satisfaction from touching objects feto- feto- /fitəυ/ prefix fetus fetoprotein fetoprotein /fitəυ | prəυtin/ noun  alpha- fetoprotein fetor fetor /fitə/ noun a bad smell fetoscope fetoscope /fitəskəυp/ ... May 14, 2007 4: 47 PM [...]... gangli- ganglion Nursing. fm Page 1 14 Monday, May 14, 2007 4: 47 PM ganglionectomy 1 14 taining fluid (NOTE: [all senses] The plural is ganglia.) ganglionectomy

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... Norse wife of Jarl mother of Konur She and Jarl are regarded as the founders of the class of nobles. Ernmas Irish father of Badb, Macha or Morrigan EABC8972-576D -48 78-8C 33- C9EBD9D6F5A9 34 4 Esaugetuh ... daughter of Riangabair and Finnabair sister of Id and Laeg EABC8972-576D -48 78-8C 33- C9EBD9D6F5A9 34 7 Etana ettin Etana Mesopotamian a Babylonian king of Kish a demi-god He was said to have flown to ... EABC8972-576D -48 78-8C 33- C9EBD9D6F5A9 35 0 Eurynome 2 Euryale 1 Euryale 1 Greek [‘wide-springer’] one of the 3 Gorgons daughter of Phorcos and Ceto sister of Medusa and Stheno Euryale 2 Greek daughter of

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 03:20

... molding of plastics, the ratio of the diameter of the mold cavity to the diameter of the parison 2 In blown tubing, the ratio of the diameter of the finished product to the diameter of ... barrel roof [ BUILD ] 1. A roof of semicylindrical{ barиəswich } 51 [...]... below a basic dimension; for example, 3. 650 Ϯ 0.0 03 centimeters indicates a tolerance of Ϯ 0.0 03 centimeter ... ] The study of the measure- liters). 3. The unit of dry volume equal to 105 quarts (approximately 116 liters). 4. A unit ofment of atmospheric pressure, with particular reference to ascertaining

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MVP/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/2 57 из 2 54 07.11.2006 1: 04 P. 131 P. 135 P. 136 of pHi and overcomes the problematic assumption that arterial [HCO 3 - ] is equivalent to mucosal capillary [HCO 3 - ]. See also: ... othorax, p 30 2; Haem opt ysi s, p3 04; Ac ute coronary syndrome (1), p 32 0; Ac ut e c oronary s yndrome (2), p322; Uppe r g ast roi nt est i nal haem orrhag e, p 34 4 ; Bl eedi ng vari c es, p 34 6 ; Lowe ... achyarrhythmi a s, p316; Pancre ati ti s , p 35 4; G eneral i se d s ei z ure s, p372; Hypom agnesaemi a, p4 24; Hyp erc al c aem i a, p426; Hyp ocalcaemi a, p428; Hypophosphataemi a, p 43 0 ; Pre -ec

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... Blood out of a stone If something is like getting blood out of a stone, it is very difficult indeed Blood out of a stone 'You can't get blood out of a stone' means that it is impossible to get something ... This idiom is a way of telling someone to hurry up or to go faster Step up to the plate www.dk -english. com Page 73 Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand If someone steps up to the plate, they ... difficult to get them to or allow what you want 'Hard nut to crack' is an alternative Tough row to hoe (USA) A tough row to hoe is a situation that is difficult to handle ('A hard row to hoe' is

Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 13:34

... Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms CHRIS BALDICK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chris Baldick is Professor of English ... principal debt I have incurred is to my predecessors in the vexed business of literary definition and distinction, from Aristotle to the editors of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics If ... the authority of Aristotle's Poetics (4th century BCE) The three unities were the unity of time, the unity of place, and the unity of action In fact Aristotle in his discussion of *TRAGEDY insists

Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 16:26

... 3 Verbs to use: to retile to decorate to install to build to sweep to put up to take away to cut to fill to repair to prune to fit to paint to lay to straighten to plant to dig (and to fill) ... Tel / Fax: +44 (0) 130 3 238 880 www.brainfriendly.co.uk Conditions of sale permit the photocopying of these masters for student use It is not permitted to subsequently use photocopies to generate ... Friendly Publications 3 3 www.brainfriendly.co.uk 3 3 PICTURES OF ENGLISH TENSES LEVEL 3 8A •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 3 3 Present Perfect

Ngày tải lên: 02/02/2018, 21:14

... 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 ... black throw sth into the pot POTATO a couch potato a hot potato drop sb/ sth like a hot brick/potato POTATOES small potatoes the meat and potatoes POTS pots of money POUND An ounce of prevention ... rock rock bottom rock-bottom: see rock bottom rock bottom rock the boat rock/shake sth to its foundations rock/shake the foundations of sth ROCKER be off your rocker go off your rocker: see be off your...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:16

... of Electricity Regulation (regulatory body) Ofgas Office of Gas Supply (regulatory body) Oflot Office of the National Lottery (regulatory body) Ofrail Office of the Railway Regulator (regulatory ... body) Ofsted Office for Standards in Education (regulatory body) OFT Office of Fair Trading Oftel Office of Telecommunications (regulatory body) Ofwat Office of Water Services (regulatory body) OHMS ... recognition OD officer of the day; overdose; overdrawn OE Old English OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OED Oxford English Dictionary OEM original equipment manufacturer OFFER Office...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2013, 01:27

... takes action too late, they do this; there is no reason to lock an empty stable. Lock, stock and barrel Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 4 Argue the toss (UK) ... eats a diet that is mainly junk food. Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 44 Labour of love A labour of love is a project or task undertaking for the interest ... makes it impossible to go back from the position you have taken. Burning question Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 1 Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15

... head go to see a man about a dog go to show (sth) go to the country Go to the devil! go to the dogs go to the ends of the earth go to the polls go to the stake go to the wall go to town on sth go to/ take ... sth go to batfor sb go to bed with sb Go to blazes! gotoeartb go to great lengths to do sth go to ground go to hell in a handbasketlhandcart Go to hell! go to pot go to rack/wrack and ruin go to ... oflife It's easy to be smart after the fact. FACTORY a factory farm: see factory farming factory farm: see factory farming factory-farmed: see factory farming factory farming on the factory...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:15