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1. Unit 5: Using English Idioms with "Cat"
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có chứa , sử dụng từ chỉ màu sắc từ “Cat” . Đó là các thành ngữ: - - A scardy cat
(informal)- Fraidy cat- Cat go your tongue?- Cat's got your tongue.- Cat Got Your
Tongue?- Copy cat.- Cat nap.- Cat's out of the bag.
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communication. They are English Idioms . Such as: A fat cat (informal)
- A scardy cat (informal)- Fraidy cat- Cat go your tongue?- Cat's got your tongue.- Cat
Got Your Tongue?- Copy cat.- Cat nap.- Cat's out of the bag.
- Raining cats and dogs.Unit 5: Using Useful English Idioms with "All" - I think ,
there are many ways to express " cat" word in English Idioms that involve cats. In this
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2. feel lost if someone uses one of these idioms in conversation. You can download this
lesson (file .doc and video) free at http://englishgoonline.com/
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Idiom Meaning Example Sentence
- A fat cat - Someone who is ostentatiously - I like to watch the fat
(informal) and smugly wealthy. cats go by in their BMWs.
- An impolite way of referring to I'm no fat cat. I can't even
someone who may be rich and pay my normal bills
powerful. - An impolite way of
referring to someone who
is very rich and powerful
He's just another fat cat -
a corporate tycoon from
Boston. (informal)
- A scardy cat - a nervous person who appears - Go on you scaredy-cat,
(informal) to be afraid. jump in.
- Someone who is frightened
when there is no reason to be
- Usage notes: This phrase is
used especially by children.
- Fraidy cat - Someone who is frightened of - Don't be such a fraidy
everything. cat.
- Cat go your - Say this to someone when you - What's the matter, cat
tongue? are annoyed that they are not got your tongue?
speaking.
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3. - (Has the) Cat got your tongue? - Grandpa used to terrify
- Cat's got your Why are you not saying me, both because he
tongue. anything? (Often said by adults to was big and fierce-
children.) looking and because he
- Cat Got Your usually greeted me by
Tongue? bellowing, "Cat got your
tongue?"
- Hi, Lisa! How are you?
How's your husband?
- Are you surprised to
see me? What's the
matter, has the cat got
your tongue?
- Copy cat. - A person, esp a child, who - My sister is such a copy
imitates or copies another cat. First she bought the
- A person who does the same same car as me, and
thing as someone else now she's applying to my
school.
- Cat nap. - A short sleep or rest period - I'm exhasted! I think I
during the day. need a little cat nap!
- Cat's out of the - Disclose a secret. - Let the cat out of the
bag. - To reveal a secret or a surprise bag
by accident. - When Bill glanced at
the door, he let the cat
out of the bag. We knew
then that he was
expecting someone to
arrive. It's a secret. Try
not to let the cat out of
the bag.
- I'm exhasted! I think I
need a little cat nap!
- Raining cats - Raining very heavily. - It was raining cats and
and dogs. - to be raining in great amounts dogs by the time I got
home.
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