Monday, January 13, 2020

5 popular idioms You can use

As you learn more and more about English, you may feel confused when you see odd phrases that just don’t make sense. One of your friends may say, “It’s raining cats and dogs!”. When you look up at the sky, however, you can’t see any domesticated pets, only water!

These phrases are called “idioms”. Idioms are phrases (groups of words) that have a hidden meaning which isn't clear when reading the words literally. They might seem baffling or random to you, but most idioms were born hundreds of years ago, and have slowly become part of everyday English speech.


1. Break a Leg

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When I first heard about the sentence, I literally don't have a clue what does the sentence mean. But when I find out the meaning of the sentence, the sentence does not literally mean ask you to break a leg. The sentence means good luck, at first I was also wondering why does it have to be "break a leg"??! People say it because the term "break the leg appears to come from the belief that one ought not to utter the words 'good luck' to an actor. by wishing someone bad luck, it is supposed that the opposite will occur.

2. Raining cats and dogs

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When I first heard about this I'm confused about what the sentence means, but when I find out the meaning of the idiom its literally not raining cats and dogs in the sky. The idiom means Heavy rain I was also wondering about why the sentence has to be raining cats and dogs?! But also maybe your thinking cats and dogs isn't that heavy why can we name it "its raining elephants"? Well it's stated that in the 17th Century people throw their waste in the streets just like that so the big cities were a mess between all that waste there were animals living and don't get scared they die there as well, unfortunately, there was no one to clean up the waste so when it started to rain, no-no like rain a lot. Everything would wash away including those dead animals and many of them are cats and dogs. So when people see heavy rain they would say "its raining cats and dogs".

3.  Piece of cake 

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Well, I think this idiom everybody knows and pretty easy to understand. My prediction of the idiom is also right. The idiom "piece of cake" means something that's simple to accomplish. if a school assignment is a piece of cake, it's so easy that you will barely have to think about it. ... The Americanism Cakewalk used to mean "something easy," came first, in the 1860's - piece of cake wasn't use until 1936.

4. Hit the hay 

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At first, it seems like the person saying this really wants to punch some hay. but it really just means that they're really tired and want to go to sleep.


5. Kill two birds with one stone

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Don't worry, we're not actually killing any innocent birds here! It actually means when you kill two birds with one stone, a single action knocks out two task or responsibilities--accomplish two different things at the same time.

1 comment:

  1. Nice Rakha, keep it up... May be you can add up next time so your readers also can learn more idioms from you. Good job Rakha!

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