English Idioms / Chinese Common Expressions/ Famous Sayings

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English Idioms /Chinese Common
Expressions/Famous Sayings
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0921- Idioms

• 1. Add insult to injury
• To make a bad situation worse to hurt the
  feelings of a person who has already been hurt
• First, the basement flooded, and then, to add
  insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen.
• My car barely started this morning, and to add
  insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the
  driveway.

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0921- Idioms

• 2. As a duck takes to water
• easily and naturally
• ?She enjoys singing, as a duck takes to water.

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0921- Idioms

• 3. Ask for the moon
• to ask for too much to make great demands to
  ask for something that is difficult or impossible
  to obtain
• ? When you are trying to get a job, it seems
  unwise to ask for the moon.

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0921- Idioms

• 4. At sea about something
• ? When it comes to higher math, Peter is totally
  at sea.

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0921- Chinese Common Expressions

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0921- Famous Sayings

• 1. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is
  the attribute of the strong. 
• ---
  Mahatma Gandhi

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0921- Famous Sayings

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0921- Famous Sayings

• 1. A home run yesterday doesnt guarantee your
  win today.   
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  ---Babe Ruths

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0928 English Idioms

• 1. At the eleventh hour
• At the last possible moment
• She always turned her papers in at the eleventh
  hour, so her teacher always punishes her.
• The workers were about to go on strike, but at
  the eleventh hour they reached an agreement with
  the company.

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0928 English Idioms

• 2. Babe in the woods
• A naive or innocent person an inexperienced
  person
• Bill is a babe in the woods when it comes to
  dealing with plumbers.
• As a painter, Mary is fine but she is a babe in
  the woods as a musician.

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0928 English Idioms

• 3. Bag and baggage
• with ones luggage with all ones possessions
• After having a ferocious quarrel with her
  husband, Shelly showed up at our door bag and
  baggage late on Sunday night
• All right, if you wont pay the rent, out with
  you, bad and baggage.

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0928 English Idioms

• 4. Be a copycat
• To be a person who copies or mimics what
  someone else does
• Sally wore a pink dress just like Marys. Mary
  called Sally a copycat.

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0928 English Idioms

• 5. Beggars cant be choosers
• a proverb meaning that a person should not
  criticize something he gets for free.
• I dont like the old hat that you gave me, but
  beggars cant be choosers.

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0928 English Idioms

• 6. Be poles apart
• to be very different
• George and Mary finish their relationship ten
  years after their marriage, because they are
  poles apart in terms of personality.

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0928 English Idioms

• 7. cant carry a tune
• Unable to sing a single melody
• Singing lessons are always a pain in the neck for
  Peter because he really cant carry a tune.

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0928 Famous saying

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• Beauty is only skin deep. What counts lies in
  how you are touched by it.
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• A great home run in time is more trustworthy
  than two base hits in a row.
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1005 English Idioms

• 1. bite the dust
• to fall to defeat to die
• ? The team won several games before biting the
  dust in the final competition

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1005 English Idioms

• 2. boggle someones mind
• to overwhelm someone to mix up someones
  thinking to astound someone
• ?The size of the room boggles my mind. I never
  expect such large space.

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1005 English Idioms

• 3. cash-and-carry
• having to do with a sales of goods or a way
  of selling that requires that the buyers par for
  the goods and take them at the same time
• ? I am sorry. We dont deliver. Its strictly
  cash-and-carry.

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1005 English Idioms

• 4. cross a bridge before one comes to it
• to worry excessively about something before it
  happens
• ?Shes always crossing the bridge before coming
  to them. She needs to learn to relax.

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1005 English Idioms

• 5. a diamond in the rough
• a valuable or potentially excellent person or
  thing hidden by an unpolished or rough exterior
• ? Jenny looks quiet and unsociable, but she is a
  fine persona real diamond in the rough.

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1005 English Idioms

• 6. doubting Thomas
• someone who will not easily believe something
  without strong proof or evidence
• ?This school is full of doubting Thomas they
  dont believe any theory in the books until a
  fine proof is given by their teachers.

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11/25 ??- Warfare

• North Korea shells South Korea's border island,
  prompting Seoul to return fire in one of the most
  serious incidents since the end of the Korean War
  in 1953.

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11/25 ??-Climate

• Monitoring our ailing oceansO cean scientists are
  urging governments to invest billions of dollars
  by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and
  give alerts of everything from tsunamis to
  acidification linked to climate change.

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11/25 ??-Science

• British scientists have developed a new way of
  joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to
  refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an
  effort to improve its use for Parkinson's,
  cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.

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11/25 ??

• Birds of a feather flock together
• ?Bob and Tom are alike. They like each others
  company because birds of a feather flock together.

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11/25 ??

• Black and blue
• My knee is black and blue because I bumped into
  the side of my desk yesterday and hurt it.

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11/25 ??

• Black sheep of the family
• Mary is the black sheep of the family. She is
  always in trouble with the police.

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11/25 ??

• A bull in a China shop
• ? Bob is a regular bull in a china shop. He
  turnovers the milk and spill it on the guests
  suit.

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11/25 ??

• Blow the whistle
• ? The gangs are getting very bad. Its time to
  blow the whistle on their misbehavior.

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12/02??

• Bite ones tongue
• ? I sat through that whole conversation biting my
  tongue

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12/02??

• Bite the hands that feed you
• ? I am your mother! How can you bite the hands
  that feed you?

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• Burn the midnight oil
• ? If you burn the midnight oil every day, you
  will probably become ill.

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12/02??

• Cant carry a tune
• ? Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry
  a tune.

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12/02??

• Cant carry a tune
• ? Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry
  a tune.

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12/02??

• Slow and steady wins the race
• ?Never give in. Slow and steady wins the race.
  You will make it finally.

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12/02??

• Under the table
• ?The mayor had been paying money to the
  construction company under the table

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12/02??

• Daylight robbery
• ? Its daylight robbery to charge that amount of
  money for a hotel room

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• Take the bull by the horns
• ?If we are going to solve this problem, someone
  is going to have to take the bull by the horn.

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