penguin dictionary of english idioms pdf

... Burning question Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 1 Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions By Dorking School of English ~ 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15

... 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 ... 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 or ways. Man of straw ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 5 At the drop of a hat If you would do something at the drop of a hat, you'd do it immediately. At the end of the day...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21

... out of a situation, no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem. Idioms 1 of 49 Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions Dictionary of English Idioms ... talk of the town. Talk out of the back of your head 9 If someone is talking out of the back of their head, they are talking rubbish. Talk out of your hat 9 If someone is talking out of their ... a lot of money. Make a monkey of someone 9 Idioms 11 of 49 A couch potato is an extremely idle or lazy person who chooses to spend most of their leisure time horizontal in front of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 09:59

... completion. Fall off the back of a lorry (UK) If someone tries to sell you something that has fallen of the back of a lorry, they are trying to sell you stolen goods. Fall off the turnip truck ... out of the woodwork When things come out of the woodwork, they appear unexpectedly. ('Crawl out of the woodwork' is also used.) Come out of your shell If someone comes out of their ... done'. At the end of your rope (USA) If you are at the end of your rope, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance. At the end of your tether (UK) If you are at the end of your tether,...

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... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it contains ... richness of a large natural-language dictionary in providing cues and flagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a finite (albeit large) list of ... that ex- amination of the content of a sense can do no more than build up lists of candidate collocates — a number of which will be genuinely high-scoring collocates, but others of which may be...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... dis- tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on. In any case, “consensus of does not go with “some kind of Mafia involve- ment” (in the third ... description of a market scene in Niger, a book of true adventure contains an ex- ample of the strict use of career: A man trying out a camel careered out of control, much to the amusement of the crowd. The ... reversal of the chronological order of events, often with after, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a special sense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... instead of became or waxed enthusiastic, was disapproved by 76 percent of The American Heritage Dictionary s usage panel. “He was con- siderably less enthused by signs of fac- tionalism,” instead of ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... rare kind of stone.” The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.” 3. Properly used with A or AN Kind of in another sense may go with a. Being a kind of ... fully. “She’s a kind of butterfly.” / “George is a sort of expert.” The same goes for kind of a (or an) or sort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of a tyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of an animal at ... call an average. It is the sum of a set of figures di- vided by the number of figures in the set. The definitions coincide only for a set of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and 34 is 42. A statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... ending. See Plurals and singulars, 2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS, HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3; Prepositions; SUPPORTIVE. OF ANY, OF ANYONE. See ANY, 1, 2. OF COURSE. 1. Benefit. 2. Draw- back. ... been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over can mean “In excess of, above, ... blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur). “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home....

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... thought. Their function of setting off part of a sentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com- mas least interrupt the flow of the sen- tence. When the set-off matter comes ... done without unduly raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all. See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM ... as the subject of its verb (lives or comes). (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI- DENCE and PROOF. PROOF OF THE PUDDING. The proverb about proof and pudding...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... ON, 1.) The derailment of a series ranks high among the most common errors found in print. The main cause of it is the fear of repetition, even the repetition of so in- offensive a word as and. ... save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and for the bettering of our realm, and for the more ready healing of the discord which has ... deprived of liberty without due process of law. The sentence affirms a “right to be de- prived of liberty.” To invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, insert not before “to be deprived.” A court of...

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