Late for Final Exam After Studying English Idioms All Night
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Basic knowledge on English idioms
![[object Object],It was the morning of the final exam. I had been in the land of the living very late the night before having my nose on my English books . I woke up late that morning; I was dead on my feet , had butterflies on my stomach and was pressed for time . I had really got up on the wrong side of the bed . My sister was kicking up a fuss at breakfast so I told her to shut up her mouth because if she kept it up she would really get my back up and I wouldn’t take the rough with smooth .](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whatareidioms-110922122904-phpapp02/85/what-are-idioms-1-320.jpg)
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Late for Final Exam After Studying English Idioms All Night
- 2. PRESENTATION PLAY with ENGLISH IDIOMS
- 4. MULTI-WORD CONSTRUCTION EVERYDAY SPEAKING MEANING MUST BE KNOWN AS A WHOLE
- 5. FEATURES Judas’s kiss: a deceitful act of courtesy. (Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss.) (New Testament)
Editor's Notes
- Idioms are phrases or groups of words which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally but we understand what they mean, whose meaning must be known as a whole because it cannot be learned from the meaning of the same words used separately Obviously, there is a problem when you cannot look up individual words in a dictionary and find the meaning, the usual strategy we all employ when we come across a word or words that are unfamiliar. With idioms, however, we must learn the group of words. It is particularly important to recognize idioms when you hear them or read them; when you are able to use them comfortably in your own speech and writing, then you have achieved a higher level of mastery and fluency in the language. In everyday English, idioms are in common use. In fact, idioms are so common that most native speakers do not even realize that they are using idioms. Also, there are a great number and vast variety of idioms in everyday use. While some idioms used approriately can add to the flavour or atmosphere of your writing and provide briefer or more interesting descriptions, too many will detract from it, as is the case here. If you use too many idioms, or use them incorrectly, then you create the wrong impression, so be careful.
- we should consider the following three points: first, the English idiom should have two words to constitute at least; second, the structure of English idioms are relatively fixed, the word-formation of idioms can not be change, can not be reordered It resists reordering of its component parts. Example: let the cat out of the bag *the cat got left out of the bag It has an unusual grammatical structure . Example: by and large It contains unique, fossilized items. Examples: to and fro fro < from = away (Scottish) cobweb cob < cop = spider (Middle English) third, the meaning of English idioms can not be interpreted by the meaning of the words which constitute it litterally carry large amount cultural information such as history, geography, religion, custom, nationality psychology, thinking pattern and so on