Tuesday, March 8, 2011

IDIOMS

IDIOMS
- are expressions peculiar to a language. 

eg:
- by hook or by crook (by fair means or by or foul)
- o
ut of the questions(impossible)
- to eat one's words (to take back what one has said)
- to make both ends meet (to live within one's income)
- to pay off old scores (to have one's revenge)
- to turn over a new leaf (to change for the better)
- in the nick of time (just at the right moment)
- on the spur of the moment (at once)
- through thick and thin (under all conditions)
- to bring to light (to disclose)
- a stone's throw of (very near)
- in the dark (no information)


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