526 idioms with names

... English idioms as black as ebony as black as coal as black as chimney as black as sweep as black as soot as black as ink as black as a raven as thin as bone as thin as a rail as thin as a lath as ... as cold as acorpse as cold as ice as sweet as honey as sweet as sugar as agile as a cat as nimble as a squirrel as quick s a...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2013, 10:39

... To have your fingers in a lot of pies  Example:   He’s always so stressed because he has his  fingers in a lot of pies To hit the nail on the head  Example:  You´re so smart. You always hit the nail on the head ... B. play it by ear  C. give a hand  Now write a small conversation with a partner  using 4 of the idioms See!!  Learning idioms is a piece of cake… ... Did you see her rin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2014, 10:44

... Hanoi College of foreign languages Department of post study ĐẶNG THỦY TRINH AN ENGLISH- VIETNAMESE CROSS- CULTURAL STUDY OF IDIOMS WITH COLORS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO ELT Nghiên cứu giao văn hóa ... Study of Idioms With Colors and Its Implications to ELT with Vietnamese learners of English and a small comparison between...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:25

... for yourself - with an eye to something/to doing something with the intention of doing something He bought the warehouse with an eye to converting it into a hotel - with your eyes open fully ... giving you the eye! - my eye! (British English, old-fashioned, informal)used to show that you not believe somebody/something ‘It's an antique.’ ‘An antique, my eye! ’ - not see eye to...

Ngày tải lên: 30/12/2015, 03:07

... gobbledegook means? gobbledegook (see page 46) Help with Idioms helps you to enrich your language and understand native speakers more easily Saying She was angry with me will communicate your meaning ... but to say She tore me o ff a strip is far more evocative and exciting Help with Idioms explains and practises a selection of idioms commonly used in everyday English There ar...

Ngày tải lên: 16/08/2013, 08:46

... A Contrastive Analysis of Proverbs Denoting Humans with Dispraising Implications in English and Vietnamese An Investigation into Idioms Denoting Humans with Praising Implications in English and ... origins and avoid the translating idioms a) English 3.8 SUMMARY [4] Adv + A + Prep (As cunning as a fox) [5] A + and + A (Meek and mild)...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:31

... occurrence of the word "Head" in English and Vietnamese language in general and in idioms in particular 15 Chapter structural and semantic features of English and Vietnamese idioms referring to head ... for learning and teaching English idioms The aim of the thesis in to make learners of English understand the semantic and structural fe...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:33

... general information on language, and culture and an overview of idioms and proverbs In chapter and chapter 3, we have "Idioms and proverbs relating to insects names in English and Vietnamese" and" ... .26 Idioms and proverbs relating to worms 28 Idioms and proverbs relating to mosquitos .31 Idioms and proverbs relating to grasshoppe...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 10:15