Idioms | Teacher Claudine https://teacherclaudine.com ESL Help for English Language Learners Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:19:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://teacherclaudine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/0669d082_o_burned-150x150.jpg Idioms | Teacher Claudine https://teacherclaudine.com 32 32 Idiom of the Day: When Pigs Fly https://teacherclaudine.com/2016/01/22/idiom-of-the-day-when-pigs-fly/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss https://teacherclaudine.com/2016/01/22/idiom-of-the-day-when-pigs-fly/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:50:23 +0000 https://teacherclaudine.com/?p=198

 

Example:

I will let you borrow my car when pigs fly!

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Are people around you when you are successful? What about when you are not successful? Do you have many friends around you then.

This quote means that when you are successful, you are popular. When you are not successful, you are unpopular.

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Blow your own horn means that you talk about your own achievements and accomplishments.

 

Example:

She just had to blow her own horn and talk about the awards that she had earned.

 

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This idiom means that you see that good things are ahead. You see that something good is going to happen in the future.

Example:

It was difficult to support my daughter in school, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. She is going to graduate from the university soon.

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If you rule the roost, you are the boss. This idiom is used to mean that a person controls his or her household.

Example:

Mary gets whatever she wants in her home. She definitely rules the roost.

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What does this quote mean to you? Can you explain this quote in English?

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Example:

I don’t know if I want to eat a salad or a sandwich for lunch. I’m really on the fence.

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Not playing with a full deck talks about a person’s intelligence. The idiom refers to a deck of cards like the ones in the picture. A smart person has a full deck of cards. A person who is not intelligent is not playing with a full deck.

Example:

I don’t know why the woman left her little baby alone in the car. She was not playing with a full deck.

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This idiom has to do with telling a secret. When you let the cat out of the bag, you tell something that is not public or something that was not previously.

Example:

I didn’t mean to let the cat out of the bag and tell her about her birthday surprise.

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If something costs an arm and a leg, it’s expensive.

Example:

It looks like that new car that she bought costs and arm and a leg.

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