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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

... www.dk -english. com Page 19 Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... Full of beans If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who's full of piss and ... arts and literature, and often a writer too Man of means A man, or woman, of means is wealthy Man of parts A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways Man of...

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... making a lot of money Make a monkey of someone Idioms 27 of 49 If you make a monkey of someone, you make them look foolish Make a mountain out of a molehill If somebody makes a mountain out of a molehill, ... have done Off the rails If someone has gone off the rails, they have lost track of reality Off the wall Something that is off the wall is unconventional Off your rocker (UK) Someone who is off their ... are he talk of the town Talk out of the back of your head If someone is talking out of the back of their head, they are talking rubbish Talk out of your hat If someone is talking out of their hat,...

Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx

... way Full of beans If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who's full of piss ... who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy Full of the joys of spring If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy Full swing If a something is ... effect Come out of the woodwork When things come out of the woodwork, they appear unexpectedly ('Crawl out of the woodwork' is also used.) Come out of your shell If someone comes out of their shell,...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

... SILICONE SPAT and SPATE TEMBLOR and TREMBLER TESTAMENT and TESTIMONY THAN [and THEN] TORTUOUS and TORTUROUS WENCH and WINCH WHEREFORE and WHEREOF WITHER and WRITHE WREAK and WRECK WREST and WRESTLE ... [and FORTUNATE or FELICITOUS] FULSOME [and FULL] FUROR and FURY GANTLET and GAUNTLET HARDY and HEARTY HINDI and HINDU HISTORIC and HISTORICAL IMPLY and INFER INCIDENCE and INCIDENT LIGATION and ... PROPHECY and PROPHESY REBUT and REFUTE REMUNERATION and RENUMERATION RESPECTABLE and RESPECTFUL REVOLT and REVOLUTION RUIN and RUINS SCALD and SCOLD 77 SET and SIT SHIMMER and SHIMMY SILICON and SILICONE...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

... pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers Nobody is likely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.” In writing, (1) an opinion of the doctor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’s ... ET CETERA And the rest ET AL And the rest In Latin et means and and cetera means the rest As adapted to English, the phrase et cetera is the equivalent of and so on or and so forth Often it is ... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals Often of follows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

... singularity of kind of goes for class of, sort of, and type of See TYPE See also THEM and THOSE Improperly used with A or AN Another source of criticism is the intrusion of a or an in “That kind of a ... CHECK-OUT EVERY DAY and EVERYDAY EVERY ONE and EVERYONE HOLD INTO, LAY OFF and LAYOFF LOT NEVER MIND ON, (end) PICK UP and PICKUP ROUND UP and ROUNDUP RUN AWAY and RUNAWAY SET UP and SETUP JOKE, ... Multitude.” The Oxford English Dictionary says of the amalgam of kind of and plural: “This is still common colloquially, though considered grammatically incorrect.” The Random House Dictionary, pointing...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

... EVERY ONE and EVERYONE; Pronouns, 2C ONE IN EVERY See ONE OF, ONE OF ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, etc ONE OF THE, IF NOT THE, etc ONE OF THE WHO etc ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, etc “One of every ... should have been at 271 “Off of is a substandard phrase Of is superﬂuous; its sense is included in off The of intrudes often in conversations and at times in broadcasting and print A reporter ... men of science and a news service) Better: invasions of exotic species / discharger of selenium / package of aid 257 winning her concession on a point of English usage In popular use, “No way” often...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

... Belgium”); and (c) introduces that dependent clause, serving as the subject of its verb (lives or comes) (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE See EVIDENCE and PROOF PROOF OF ... raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all 303 See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE”; ... plural and singular matters are these: BACTERIA and BACTERIUM; COHORT; CRITERIA and CRITERION; DATA; EMERITUS; GRAFFITI and GRAFFITO; HEADQUARTERS; KUDOS; MEDIA and MEDIUM; MEMORANDA and MEMORANDUM;...

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