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<div | <div style="font-size:300%;">What are the Funniest English Idioms?</div> | ||
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TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AS IT IS SPOKEN IN REAL LIFE, you have to be familiar with idioms. | |||
They are used so much in everyday English that it is important to be aware of them. | |||
==Hold Your Horses== | ==Hold Your Horses== | ||
*Meaning: used to tell someone to stop and consider carefully their decision or opinion about something. | *Meaning: used to tell someone to stop and consider carefully their decision or opinion | ||
about something. | |||
*Example: Just hold your horses, Bill! Let’s think about this for a moment. | *Example: Just hold your horses, Bill! Let’s think about this for a moment. | ||
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*Example: "Just bite the bullet and rip that band aid off" | *Example: "Just bite the bullet and rip that band aid off" | ||
== | ==are you pulling my leg?== | ||
*Meaning: are you messing with me at my expense? | *Meaning: are you messing with me at my expense? | ||
== | ==There is an elephant in the room== | ||
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[[Category:English/Intermediate]] | [[Category:English/Intermediate]] | ||
[[Category:English/Vocabulary]] | [[Category:English/Vocabulary]] | ||