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الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:25 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
Welcome to Safwat's  world of idioms , in which you will find new subjects made easier for reading and few minutes to get knowledge .
Imagine who how we will learn together idioms help us in enriching  our knowledge about daily subjects we need ever day and every chance .
Let us start by idioms about ( language )
Hope for you and me a new successful achievement
Would you encourage me to go on ?
In the name of Allah we begin together …

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:33 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
excellent, fluent, good, perfect-
He speaks fluent Japanese.

bad, broken, poor-
I got by with broken Chinese and sign language.
colloquial, idiomatic, non-standard, pidgin,

standard-
The inhabitants speak a kind of pidgin Spanish.

spoken, written-
My spoken Polish is better than my written Polish.

business-
She is doing a course in business English.

original-
The fable is translated from the original French.

know, read, speak, understand, use-
I am more comfortable using Spanish, if you don't
mind.

be fluent in-
She was fluent in German, Urdu and Swahili.

do, learn-
I did German at school but I've forgotten most of it.
I've been learning Arabic for four years.

improve, practice-
I spent a month in Rome to improve my Italian.

master-
I never really mastered Latin.

translate sth into-
He has translated her latest book into Korean.

-class, course, lesson
I'm late for my Russian class.

-interpreter, speaker, a speaker of the
need for Gujarati interpreters.

a command/knowledge of-
He has a poor command of English.

in-
What is 'apple' in French?
He addressed me in his best Portuguese.

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:37 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

swear like a sailor

       use vulgar language, use four-letter words, the air was blue
Grace won't take her boyfriend to church because he swears like a sailor.

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:38 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

call a spade a spade
say it in plain language; the straight goods  Kris will report the facts.
She's not afraid to call a spade a spade.

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:39 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

bafflegab
confusing statements, jargon, political language
There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.

الكاتب:  étoile [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 1:22 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
Safwat,
 
Nice idea, go ahead brother, you are doing great
Thank you so much
May I ALLAH reward you
All the best,

الكاتب:  حلواني [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 7:20 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

thank you alot my brother Safwat:)

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الأربعاء تشرين الأول 12, 2011 12:57 م ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
étoile,   حلواني,  
Thank you too
I will go on tonight ...I prepare a search alot to make something original

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الخميس تشرين الأول 13, 2011 12:24 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
Welcome to Safwat's world of idioms .

I see that it is necessary to add collocations to idioms.
It is really useful for everything .
Say conversation , translation , writing , etc …

Month
the month of-
The bus service will be offered free
of charge to residents for the month
of August.

last, next, that, this the/
this coming the
following/previous-
She'll be 40this coming September.
(of) last/next/that/this year
(of) the/this coming year
(of) the following/previous/same

year
The construction work began in
May of last year.

early, late, mid--
The strike began in late March.

the beginning, end, middle of-
I'm going on holiday at the end
of April.

first/latter/second half of-
The first half of January was
marked by intense diplomatic
activity.

the period-
Throughout the period November
to February flocks of 500or more are
regularly present.

the months/weeks/year to-
In the year to June, sales were
up 12% on a year ago.

spend-
He spent August abroad.

-arrive, come (written)
November came with especially
nasty fog.

-pass (Into-e) (written)
January passed into February
with the crime still a mystery.

a-day/morning/night, etc.
a misty December morning.

-('s) edition/issue
His article will appear in May's
issue of the magazine.

-sales
I picked up lots of bargains in the
January sales.

-coup, demonstration, election,
meeting, referendum, revolution,
riot, summit, etc.
The party is to boycott the June
elections.

about, around-
We will write to you again around
August.

after, before-
We expect to take delivery some time
after June.

Month Noun

• ADJ. last, past The past few months have been hectic. I
preceding. previous, recent I current I coming, following,
next, future Winning stories will be published in the
magazine in future months. I consecutive, successive I
alternate I intervening To occupy the intervening
months she took a temporary job. I early, later the early
months of 2003 I cold, dry, hot, wet I autumn, spring,
summer ,winter hot summer months I lunar I calendar I
record This has been a record month for sales.

• VERB + MONTH spend He spent about a month decorating
the house. I take It took months to find another job.

• MONTH + VERB elapse, go by, pass.

• PREP. by the - paid by the month during/in a/the - of
The festival is always held in the month of May. for a - It
hasn't rained for months. in a - We're getting married in a
month/in a month's time. over/under a - I've been working
on the illustration for over a month. per - What does
the salary work out as per month? I - of The months of
July and August are the hottest.

• PHRASES a time of the month Our money's usually
running low by this time of the month.

a month of Sundays
       a very long time, many days
       It will take a month of Sundays to phone the students in our school


salt away
       save a little money each month, save tiny amounts
       By the time Jake died, he had salted away about $50,000.

الكاتب:  Safwat [ الخميس تشرين الأول 13, 2011 9:23 ص ]
عنوان المشاركة:  Safwat's  world of Idioms

 
not understanding understanding

not have a clue informal: to have no knowledge of or no information about something after practicing it

go over sb's head
can't make head nor/or tail of sth :A to make someone understand something
to not be able
not know the first thing about sth
to not know anything about a particular
subject.

be as clear as mud humorous
to be impossible to understand.

get your lines/wires crossed
if two people get their lines crossed, they
do not understand each other correctly.

get the message informal
to understand what someone is trying to
tell you even though they are not
expressing themselves directly

get the hang of sth informal A.
to succeed in learning how to do.

come/get to grips with sth X
they do not understand with a problem or situation
to make an effort to understand and deal someone's head.

bring sth home to sb:
to understand something much more clearly than they did before,
at all especially something unpleasant.

get your head around sth informal
to be able to understand something

come/get to grips with sth X
if a piece of information goes over
X/ .

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