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Idiom of the Day

An idiom is a group of words in current usage having a meaning that is not deducible from those of the individual words. For example, “to rain cats and dogs” – which means “to rain very heavily” – is an idiom; and “over the moon” – which means “extremely happy” – is another idiom. In both cases, you would have a hard time understanding the real meaning if you did not already know these idioms!

Now you can learn a new idiom every day (as well as some other words of the day if you like).

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Josef | 2009/09/01 | Filed under Vocabulary
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7 Responses to “Idiom of the Day”

  1. Nafis says:
    2009-08-27 at 1:56 pm

    Dear Josef,

    I LOVE this part of EC. Every day, I check the EC for new idioms every day. I am a big fan of “idiom of the day.”Thank you so much for this part.

    My warmest regards,
    Nafis

  2. leechuoi says:
    2009-08-28 at 7:51 am

    hi,
    This is greate thing that i know…plz give me some…

    Have a nice day!!
    leechuoi

  3. Nucha says:
    2009-08-28 at 10:21 am

    Thank you so much, I love it that made me more understand in English. Good advice,Josef .

    All the best ,
    Nucha

  4. selma says:
    2009-08-29 at 2:57 pm

    Great idea that keeps us to connected closely.
    Thank you Josef.
    My Kindly Regards.
    Selma,

  5. Thu Zar Phyu says:
    2009-09-03 at 9:59 am

    great,I think we need to know to improve our English

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