Idioms!

Trust me, I'm a "Linguist" This one goes out to all language teachers who want to terrify their young L2 learners.

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AmEnglish.com has added a new listening comprehension section to all four volumes of Idioms in English.

Idiom:  To Shop Around; used as a verb. First Example:  Tom had shopped around at several stores before finding the refrigerator he wanted.  After comparing prices at a few places, he found that the appliance store by his house had the cheapest...

Here's the 21st phrase in my Fluency Gym Coach Program American phrase learning mission – “For My Money”

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IBM had to tell her employees that they needed to change. So what did she do? She recorded a video message and posted it on the company blog. Her message to her 434,000 employees: you need to move faster!

American English idioms flourish around money and business. However, international students may find themselves more bewildered than enriched.

What is a "dog-eat-dog" industry, for instance? Or a store that charges "an arm and a leg"?

When do we need to 'break the ice'? Find out with Today's Phrase. Today's Phrase: 26 March 2013 (What does the idiom : " To break the ice mean"??...

This episode is all about forgetting the negative things that happened to us in the past and moving forward with our lives. This is always a good idea, so we’ve got a few expressions to remind us of this.

A Vicious Circle – Idiom. You are here: Home > A Vicious Circle – Idiom. A Vicious Circle. Posted on April 30, 2013 by Stephen Shortt in Blog, Idioms & Phrasal Verbs. About Stephen Shortt. Hi, I'm the Managing Director of Alpha College.

GMAT expert Mike McGarry covers three sophisticated idioms that you'll find on the GMAT. ... They are characteristic of formal language, and thus each is “fair game” for the GMAT Sentence Correction questions.

When someone says something negative or critical about you, sometimes it can bother or upset you. But it’s important not to take things like this too personally, just like this week’s expression: like water off a duck’s back.

Clover's Literary Corner: Put This Idiom in Your Pipe and Smoke It
The Crozet Gazette
By far my favorite lectures have been the two on Slang and Idioms.

Idiom:  To Get Off to a Good Start; used as a verb.
First Example:  Mary’s first day of class got off to a good start because all of her students arrived on time and were excited for the first lesson of the day.

Everyone likes to get good customer service, but we don’t always get it. In this episode, we talk about tipping (where, when, and how much), and about how to handle a situation when the service was not so good.

"Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms"

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and now she's pushing up daisies. If you prefer the French version, eating dandelions from the roots upwards. The 33 word challenge this weekend from Trifecta is to use idiom. Some of the French idioms are hilarious when ...