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English idioms about the human body Posted by on Mar 3, 2015

The human body.

Let’s look at some idioms in English that go from head to toe. Here is our first one! “From head to toe” is an idiom that means ‘from the top to the bottom’ or ‘the entirety of something.’ To have a little fun with this I want you to try and guess which body parts…

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Let’s put this one to bed and other English idioms. Posted by on Aug 28, 2014

How are you feeling? Sleepy? If you are, then this probably isn’t the post for you as I’m going introduce a number of expressions and phrases with word ‘bed’ in them. So, reading this might make you even more tired.  But if you are wide awake and ready to learn some new English phrases you…

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Death, dying, and condolences Posted by on Mar 25, 2014

Death is a part of life, but not one we talk about very much. It is important to be able to know what to say to a person when someone close to them has died, which is why we are going to look at this topic today.  In this post I’ll review vocabulary related to…

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Let’s ring in the New Year with idioms using the word ‘new’ Posted by on Dec 31, 2013

Another year is almost upon us, tomorrow is the first day of 2014! To help us ring in the New Year, today I am going to present some English idioms/expressions with the word “new” in them. First though, let me tell you about the expression “ring in the new year.” The expression ‘ring in the…

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Animal Idioms Posted by on Mar 8, 2012

Today we are going to take another look at a group of idioms that are all related around a theme.  This time the theme is: animals. When you look at the phrases below you may ask yourself, “Who created these idioms anyway?”  Well, idioms usually start out as simple metaphors that enter mainstream vocabulary after…

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Knowledge is Light Idioms Posted by on Feb 2, 2012

Idioms are expressions or phrases that have figurative* meaning that is different from the literal** meaning of the words that make up the expression or phrase.  Generally idioms require some foundational information or experience within a culture to understand their meaning.  Most of the time idioms are so culturally dependent that the same idioms do…

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