1)A bed of roses : Life is not
a bed of roses.( full of difficulties )
2)A cry in the wilderness: The
protest against the Sales Tax was a cry in the wilderness(useless cry ).
3)At arm’s length : I keep my
wicked neighbour at arms length (at a sufficient distance).
4)At daggers drawn : Tom and
Harry are always at daggers drawn (openly inimical )
5)At one’s wit’s end : I was at
my wit’s end ( completely puzzled)when I heard of the failure of my bank.
What exactly is accent ?
Where does our accent come from?
Is my accent wrong?
Comparing Articles :
1)Orange - Apple 2)Car
- Bus 3)King
- President 4)Newspaper - Magazine 5)Cow -
Sheep
Joke : There was a
preacher who was trying to sell his horse. A man stopped by to see how the
horse rode. The preacher told the man that instead of saying, “walk", say,
“praise the Lord,” and instead of saying, “whoa,” say, “amen.” So the man got
on the horse and said, “praise the Lord,” and the horse started to walk. The
man then said, “praise the Lord,” again and the horse started to trot. He said
it a few more times, then the horse started galloping. Suddenly a cliff
appeared. The man yelled "Whoa!". The horse didn't stop. He tried
yelling al sorts of things, and he tried to pull the horse up, but it wouldn't
stop. Then suddenly he remembered what to say. The man said, “amen.” The horse
stopped right before they fell off. The man was so releived that he put his
hand on his forehead and then said, ”Praise the Lord.”
to be like peas in a pod
If two people
are like peas in a pod then they are very alike. They might look like each
other(as with identical twins) or just behave like each other.
Peas are very
small green vegetables. They grow in pods - each pod contains a few peas which
are identical. That's where the idiom originates from.
to be out of
the question
If
'something' is out of the question then there is no chance of the 'something'
happening or being done. It won't even be considered (to consider something
means to think about it).
For example,
if you're looking at computers in a shop and ask for a discount (that means, to
pay less than the normal price) the salesperson might say, "I'm sorry, but
a discount is out of the question." That means that they don't give
discounts at all. Their prices are fixed.
to bite off
more than you can chew
If you bite
off more than you can chew then you do something (or agree to do something)
that is bigger or harder than you can manage.
You can use
the idiom to refer to yourself: "I've got too much work to do. I think I
bit off more than I could chew when I agreed to do this project."
Or you can
use it to refer to others:
"David
has agreed to manage the Paris office in addition to the Vienna office. I think
he's biting off more than he can chew. It's just too much work for one
person."
Test
your knowledge
1)
What
is the word that qualifies a verb called ? Adverb
2)
How
can we describe a writing which can be easily read ? Legible
3)
What
is a group of robbers called ? Gang/Band
4)
What
is the home of a horse called ? Stable
5)
What
is a group of flowers called – Bouquet or bunch ? Bouquet
6)
The
baby of the deer is called ---- Fawn
7)
What
do we call a person who betrays his or her own country? Traitor
8)
What
sound does a boot make while we walk - creak or rumble ? Creak
9)
What
is the unit of measure equal to 12 inches called ? A Foot
10) What is the young one of an elephant
called ? Calf
Identify the pairs of homophones from
the following clues.
1) One word means an occasion; the
other is a herb: time/thyme.
2) One word means to hit; the other is
a vegetable: beat/beet.
3)One word means permitted; the other
means audible: allowed/aloud.
4)One word is a singer; the other is a
sum of money. tenor/tenner.
5)One word is an animal; the other is
an undercover fighter: gorilla/guerrilla.
Shapes
1) What shape is a football? A football is a sphere or
spherical in shape.
a sphere a
cube a pyramid a cone
2)’The
Pentagon’ is the US defence building in Washington, but how many sides does the
building have?
3 4 5 6 (The
prefix ‘penta’ means the number 5)
3)Inside
a square there are 4 ____ angles. right wrong
(A
90 degree angle is called a right angle.)
4)Which
of the following shapes has three sides?
Triangle circle square rectangle
(‘Tri’
means three, think of ‘tricycle’ - a bicycle with 3 wheels.)
5)What
do we call the line from the centre to the edge of a circle?
Circumference diameter radius line
(The
radius is a line going from the centre of a circle to the edge.)
6)In
many games we throw a dice (a six sided object), but what shape is it?
a cube a
sphere square a pyramid
(A
cube is a 3-dimensional 6 sided object - think of a sugar cube.)
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