... wears __________
TEST 9:Direction: Supply a correct preposition into the given space.
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IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
TEST 1: Complete the following sentences with one appropriate word.
Example: He...
... of English, Bangkok Thailand
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Dictionary of English Idioms and IdiomaticExpressions
By Dorking School of English
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A bit much
If something is excessive or ...
Comfort zone
It is the temperature range in which the body doesn't shiver or sweat, but has an idiomatic sense of a place where
people feel comfortable, where they can avoid the worries of the ... train, they have found and easy way to make lots of money.
Grease monkey
A grease monkey is an idiomatic term for a mechanic.
Grease someone's palm
If you grease someone's palm, you...
... train, they have found and easy way to make lots of money.
Grease monkey
A grease monkey is an idiomatic term for a mechanic.
Grease someone's palm
If you grease someone's palm, you ... four-square behind someone, they give that person their full support.
Fourth estate
This is an idiomatic way of describing the media, especially the newspapers.
Free rein
If someone has a free ... on the Clapham omnibus is the ordinary person in the street.
Man's best friend
This is an idiomatic term for dogs.
Man's man
A man's man is a man who does things enjoyed by men...
... since they were kids and I’m still green. But
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EASY AMERI C AN IDIOMS
Hundreds of idiomaticexpressions to give you an edge in English!
by Rachel Varra
Edited by Christopher Warnasch
... about something.
15. To be spinning your wheels. To be putting forth an effort that is
having no useful effect.To be working in vain.
16. To have a good mind to do something.To be inclined to do
something....
... form expressions as this is pre-
cisely the set of expressions that would be classi-
fied as idiomatic by the unsupervised CForm clas-
sifier (Cook et al. (2007), Fazly et al. (To appear)).
While expressions ... typically exhibit cohesive ties with the sur-
rounding discourse, while idiomatic expressions
do not. Hence idiomaticexpressions can be de-
tected by the absence of such ties. We propose two
methods ... classifier.
3 Using Lexical Cohesion to Identify
Idiomatic Expressions
3.1 Lexical Cohesion
In this paper we exploit lexical cohesion to detect
idiomatic expressions. Lexical cohesion is a prop-
erty...
... mind: ở tâm trạng thoải mái, tốt
- Take ST in one’s stride: vượt qua cái gì một cách dễ dàng
SOME USEFUL IDIOMS AND PHRASES (part1)
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- be on probation for: thời gian quản chế
- yield to SO/ST:...
... Publisher. All rights reserved
A Randomized Study of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Is
Chemotherapy Useful after Complete Remission?
Research paper
Received: 2004.3.23
Accepted: 2004.5.17
Published:2004.6.1 ... number of patients with absent disease or residuum <2cm (table 1) would seem to
confirm the usefulness of radiotherapy or of chemoradiotherapy as consolidation [23].
2. Patients and Methods ... Cooperativo Clinico del Nord-Est, consisting of 20 centers in
North-east Italy) designed to evaluate the usefulness of consolidation chemotherapy in patients with
pathologic complete remission. First-line...