... is meant in a
good natured way of expressing both sympathy and having a bit of a laugh at their expense.
Raw deal
If you get a raw deal, you are treated unfairly.
Read from the same page
When ... it's a blessing in disguise.
Blind as a bat
If you are in total darkness and can't see anything at all, you are as blind as a bat.
Blind leading the blind
Whe...
...
achieve it.
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Call a spade a spade
A person who calls a spade a spade is one speaks frankly and makes little or no attempt ... it is a bit much.
A day late and a dollar short
(USA) If something is a day late and a dollar short, it is too little, too late.
A fool and his money are soon pa...
... sets of verbs.
be ahead of Tom
get ahead of Tom
keep ahead of Tom
remain ahead of Tom
stay ahead of Tom
keep clear of the doors
remain clear of the doors
stand clear of the doors
If each of these ... it and use its vari-
ants in a far greater number of contexts.
Grammatical Variation
In idioms in general, nouns can be plural or sin-
gular and verbs can occur in...
... of Changes’) is the best-known of the Chinese oracle books.
About two thousand years ago it acquired canonical status and was used as a sort of
handbook in the identification and interpretation ... times when a person
of high rank died a painter was brought in to provide an image of the deceased.
The painter arrived with a readymade picture of a man in official ga...
... “intralingua translation “often prolix and pretentious and
not translation at all
The advantage of this type of translation is that the text in TL sound more
natural .On the contrary, the disadvantage ... chance very little chance (as much chance as a snowball
has in hell)
"We don't have a snowball's chance of winning that contract!"
E.g.72: a storm i...
... all of the University of
Texas at Austin. Again, we wish to thank Joe Gonzalez, Chris Braun, Ken
McFarland, Kathryn Kenefick, Gabriel Alvarado, Janice Duff, Rennison
Lalgee, Deidra Allen, Brian ... lives, but
only a ghastly sack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network
of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
Letter to the Alta Californian
San Francisco,...
... Laboratory, Karaman State Hospital, Karaman, Turkey
3. Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Batman State Hospital, Batman,Turkey
4. Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Konya Education and Research ... for a long time, immuncapture
agglutination test has been recently introduced and used in serological diagnosis. The
aim of this study was to compare diagnostic values of ELISA Ig M and...
... websites
of companies… or in foreign and Vietnamese newspapers, magazines. In
addition, the data analysis was based on the qualitative and quantitative
methods. The samples of company slogans collected ...
both languages. The analysis will help them have a view about
lexicon, syntax as well as pragmatics of company slogans. Moreover,
it can give learners the way how to unders...