English Idioms

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<br /><br /><br /><strong><font color="#993366" size="5">We found him <u>under the table</u> (drunk).</font></strong>

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<br /><br /><br /><strong><font size="5">Every one struggles for <u><font color="#ff0000">Bread and butter</font></u>livelihood).</font></strong>

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<br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#ff0000" size="5">He would go <strong><u>Through fire and water</u></strong> (discomfort)to make him happy.</font>

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<br /><br /><br /><br /><font size="5"><strong>My office is located <u><font color="#ff6600">at a stone's throw</font></u><br /> (very near)from my residence.</strong></font>

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<br /><br /><br /><font color="#993366" size="5"><strong>Let him <u>chalk out ( form a plan)</u>program of work.</strong></font>

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<br /><br /><br /><br />He seems very <strong><font size="5"><u>so-so (in bad health)</u></font></strong> this morning.

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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To walk <u><strong>the chalk line</strong></u>.(على الطريق المستقيم-سلوكيا.)

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 60.3pt" align="left"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">All but Very nearly.<p align="left"></p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">The proposals are all but meaningless</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en-gb"><p align="left"></p></span></p>

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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -27pt; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 60.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">On <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -27pt; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 60.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">On all fours [</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">LIT</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">] On one’s hands and knees, in the position of a four- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                                     </span><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -9pt; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 60.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Legged animal.[</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">MET</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">]<i> </i>Level with; similar to. [</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">Oldf.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz">]<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt -27pt; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 60.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-dz; mso-fareast-language: fr"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This demand for money is on all fours with the one we received last week</span></p></span></p></span></font></span>

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<br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#ff0000" size="5">You can talk <strong><u>till the cows come home</u></strong>( for a very long time ).</font>

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<br /><br /><font size="5">Water will be <font color="#ff0000"><strong><u>a burning question</u></strong> ( a big problem)</font>in the near future.</font>

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<br /><br /><font color="#0000ff">He shed <font size="5"><u><strong>crocodile tears(false )</strong></u></font> on hearing of her death.</font>

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<br /><br /><br /><font color="#ff0000">They were ordered to <u><strong><font color="#000000">face about</font> (i.e.to look at the opposite side).</strong></u></font>