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the penguin dictionary of english idioms new york 1989

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

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... unpopular at the moment. In the doghouse If someone is in the doghouse, they are in disgrace because they have done something wrong. In the face of If people act in the face of something, they do ... activity. In the making When something is in the making, it means it is in the process of being made. In the offing If something is in the offing, it is very likely to happen soon. In the pink ... square, they follow the rules and win conclusively. Fair crack of the whip (UK) If everybody has a fair crack of the whip, they all have equal opportunities to do something. Fair shake of the...
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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx

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... 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, ... from the beginning right to the very end. From the bottom of your heart If someone does something from the bottom of their heart, then they do it with genuine emotion and feeling. From the ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 5At 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 This...
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Dictionary of english idioms

Dictionary of english idioms

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... greener on the other side of the fence'. The more the merrier 99 The more the merrier means that the greater the quantity or the bigger the number of something, the happier the speaker ... Talk of the town 99 When everybody is talking about particular people and events, they are he talk of the town. Talk out of the back of your head 9 If someone is talking out of the back of their ... depressed, you are out of sorts. Out of the blue 99 If something happens out of the blue, it happens suddenly and unexpectedly. Out of the frying pan, into the fire 99 If you get out of one problem,...
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Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx

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... 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 you work at the coalface, ... position At the top of my lungs If you shout at the top of your lungs, you shout as loudly as you possibly can. At the top of the list If something is at the top of the list, it is of highest ... 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...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx

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... the utility of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework of the Alvey Programme of ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal of the toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition of the ... source of lexical information. Therefore, rather than batch process the MRD source, the lexicon development software is based around the concept of semi-automatic and rapid construction of entries,...
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, Volume One: The CSEC Population in New York City: Size, Characteristics, and Needs doc

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, Volume One: The CSEC Population in New York City: Size, Characteristics, and Needs doc

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... the population. The discovered offerings (di) were the actual number of offerings seed (i) received in the period prior to the end of the study. The post-seed sample (Ai) is the number of ... Self–Concept, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, vol. 818. New York: New York Academy of Science, pp. 145–161. Alexa, Melina and Cornelia Zuell (2000) “Text Analysis Software: Commonalities, ... if they were offered any coupons, and if so, to report the number(s) of those coupons. Five of the seven special seeds reported any coupons offered to them for three months, until the end of...
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The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn potx

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn potx

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... "cannon."] THE CAMPAIGN OF 1776AROUND NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN.INCLUDING A NEW AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND AND THE LOSS OF NEW YORK, WITH AREVIEW OF EVENTS TO THE CLOSE OF THE ... Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1870,p. 884. The maps in the early London editions of Gordon's and Stedman's histories of the war, each put fivefortifications on the ... as a sacrifice to the cause; Colonels Crary and Angell and the Olneys served with the highest credit; and the men of the regiments,many of them, fought through the war to the Yorktown surrender.Part...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

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... Currently she is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Magic Years Day Care. . . .Correction: the chairman of the judiciarycommittee, membership chairman, andchairman of the board of directors.Although ... melon is the largest of the three” but “This melon is the larger of the two.”It is a common mistake to use the su-perlative instead of the comparative; forinstance, to say that someone is the “tallest” ... 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...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

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... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is mostfar in a figurative sense: Of the paint-ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur-thest from reality.”Those cool to the idea of distinguish-ing the ... 58-year-old New York womanwho died of the disorder in Septemberis the first confirmed fatality in the outbreak, and several other deaths arestill under investigation. . . . The driver of the Mercury ... at the Zoo.” The program included Carnival of the Animals, Tiger Rag, Under the DoubleEagle, and Prelude to the Afternoon of aFaun. That last selection seemed out of harmony with the zoo theme....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

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... figuremidway in a set of figures arranged in or-der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the middle.) ... similar.Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the first edition of Pravda, the newspaper of the SovietCommunist Party. The ... 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, and34 is 42.A statistical term in which the...
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