... speakers that dealt comprehensively with such Spanish
terms, so I began to jot down words. From these beginnings I developed
this dictionary of commonly used Spanishexpressions that are often
difficult ... and newspapers from
across the Spanish- speaking world.
The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms is a comprehensive reference
designed to open up the world of idiomaticSpanish to English-speaking
learners, ... advanced level of understanding of Spanish. The dic-
tionary contains a broad collection of over 4,000 commonly used
idiomatic and colloquial expressions in Spanish and almost 8,000
English translations....
... the sentences with the appropriate phrasal verb in its correct form.
put something off do without something put up with something / someone
look something up do with something get on with someone ... 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 turned out the light and ... (them) to others.
20. I’m sorry about the mix—up with tour order, Sir. I’ll _______________ (it) at once.
TEST 4:Direction: Complete the sentences with the appropriate phrasal verb in its correct...
... with something that has just been said.
An old flame
An old flame is a person that somebody has had an emotional, usually passionate, relationship with, who is still looked
on fondly and with ... take something with a grain of salt, you shouldn't accept it as true without looking more carefully at it.
Grasp the nettle
(UK) If you grasp the nettle, you deal bravely with a problem. ... loose end, you have spare time but don't know what to do with it.
At odds
If you are at odds with someone, you cannot agree with them and argue.
At sea
If things are at sea, or all at...
... with something that has just been said.
An old flame
An old flame is a person that somebody has had an emotional, usually passionate, relationship with, who is still looked
on fondly and with ... loose end, you have spare time but don't know what to do with it.
At odds
If you are at odds with someone, you cannot agree with them and argue.
At sea
If things are at sea, or all at ... take something with a grain of salt, you shouldn't accept it as true without looking more carefully at it.
Grasp the nettle
(UK) If you grasp the nettle, you deal bravely with a problem....
... morning.
Father: Okay, give me a call with the details and I’ll come and
pick you up at the airport.
Maya: Okay, I will. Bye, Dad.
1. To check in with someone.To talk to or visit with someone for
the purpose ... something with someone.To share the cost or
expense of something with someone.
5. To not have a clue.To not know about something at all.
6. To look around. To move through a place and observe without
the ... . I’m
earning peanuts now, and with the baby, I just can’t
seem to make ends meet. Plus there are some things
that need to be fixed on the house, and problems with
the car that I’ve let sit on...
... literally used expres-
sions 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 ... relatively sta-
ble, with accuracies above 50% for most idioms.
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In particular, the classifier performs well on both,
expressions with a dominant non-literal meaning
and those with a dominant literal ... 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...
... Proceedings of EACL '99
Generating referring expressionswith a unification grammar
Richard
Power
Information Technology Research Institute
University ... base.
1 Introduction
Nominal referring expressions are exceptionally
sensitive to linguistic context. If a discourse men-
tions a book, potential referring expressions in-
clude 'it', ... expression, the
final context of the last daughter can be unified
with that of the parent, so that
F(ug) = f(uo).
For referring expressions, instead,
F(uo)
usually
differs from
F(ug),
because...
... scot-free' is an alternative.)
Get away with murder
If you get away with murder, you do something bad and don't get caught or punished.('Get
away with blue murder' is also used.) ... you will probably fail, but you refuse to give up.
Go down without a fight
If someone goes down without a fight, they surrender without putting up any resistance.
Go Dutch
If you go Dutch ...
AWOL stands for "Absent Without Leave", or "Absent Without Official Leave". Orignially a
military term, it is used when someone has gone missing without telling anyone or asking...
... delighted/pleased/satisfied/contented WITH st
- be disappointed/ let down WITH st
3/ Adj + AT/BY /WITH
- be surprised/ amazed/astonished AT/BY st
- be shocked AT/BY st
- be impressed WITH/ BY st
- be fed up/bored WITH ... relationship/ a connection/ contact WITH st/sb
There is a relationship/ contact
BETWEEN
a connection/ a difference
- have difficulty (IN) doing st
= have trouble (WITH) doing st
- pay attention ... always been nice to me.
Why are you so unfriendly to Tessa?
2/ Adj + ABOUT /WITH
- be angry/annoyed/furious ABOUT st
WITH sb FOR doing st
- be excited ABOUT st/doing st
- be worried ABOUT st...