The document discusses idioms and figurative language. It defines idioms as phrases whose meanings cannot be derived from the individual words and provides examples like "barking up the wrong tree" and "being cool as a cucumber." Similes and metaphors are also discussed as types of figurative language that make comparisons using "like", "as" or implied comparisons. The document aims to help the reader understand idioms and common idiomatic phrases through examples and explanations.

1. Everyday
Idioms
A Piece of Cake

2. What is figurative language?
Whenever you describe something by
comparing it with something else,
you are using figurative language.
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3. Simile
a direct comparison between two
unlike things
or
a way of describing something by
comparing it to something else,
usually using the words
“like” or “as”
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4. I am hungry as a horse
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You run like a rabbit
He is sneaky as a
snake

5. METAPHOR
A way of describing something
by
comparing it to something else;
implied comparison between
two unlike things
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The road was a ribbon
wrapped through the
desert.
The clown was a feather
floating away

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What is an idiom?
• refers to a phrase or expression that
cannot be understood by knowing what
the individual words in the phrase
mean.
• An idiom is an expression whose
meaning cannot be understood based
on the definition of its constitutional
elements

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What does that mean?
• words are put together to
make a clever phrase that
means something other
than what the individual
words mean

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Huh?
For example:
Barking up the wrong
tree
To misunderstand a
situation and
complain to a wrong
person or blame a
wrong thing

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Can I see another
example?
Being Cool as a
Cucumber
means being
very calm and
relaxed even in
a difficult
situation

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Oh, I get it…
• This is a humorous expression
that is used when you find out
that someone else was thinking
about the same thing as you
were.

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Try these on your own…
You got it…a couch potato.
It’s usually someone laying
around a lot!!!
Now try this one….

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This is a little more
difficult…
• Did you guess
it? I bet you
did…it’s…
• Go fly a kite.
• It means go
away.

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See if you can figure
these out….
Get off my
back A dog’s
life
Holy
Cow
Proud as a
peacock

15. And this …
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SHE WAS DRESSED
TO KILL…

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idiom presentation because
I…
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