First of all, a special greeting to those who don't belong to our school but read this blog anyway.
Following a wonderful lesson on idioms (thanks, Sandra), I would like to propose a challenge here. Can you understand this text?
"You're not going to believe what happened the other day at the garage. A furious guy came in waving his arms around and, guess who it was? Robert de Niro! His car was still smoking outside. He said he was going at full speed when the engine suddenly kicked the bucket. He tried to restart it, but it was like flogging a dead horse. The man was all hot under the collar. You see, it's a '62 Thunderbird we're talking about. The thing had cost him a pretty penny.
My partner Tom and I are men of our words. We said it would be easy as pie, and so it was.
We usually make light work of fixing these things, but this time we buried the needle. “Good as new!” said Tom when we were done. I could see that he was swelling with pride. He told the owner the car would purr like a cat from then on, as long as he took good care of it."
I also have a question for you: what is your favorite idiom in English? Let the votes begin!
Alex
10 comments:
I like "easy as pie". Why are the pies easy? I don't know how to make pie!
I'm not really sure I uderstood the whole text word by word. But since the idioms are so visual I guess I caught all the ideas.
By the way, I've been thinking and can not choose a favorite one between this two idioms:
- Spanish shame: I've never realized about how weird is to be shame about what anybody else does.
- a snake in the grass: It is very intuitive the relationship between a "snake in the grass" and how dangerous a two-face person is.
I´ve seen plenty of unknonw idioms in the text, in spite of that I guess I´ve got the pith.
My vote is for:
"Hit home"
Don't ask me why but my favourite idiom is definitely "to kick the bucket" XD
Hi! I understand more or less the test. In my opinion my favourite idiom is to kick the bucket. I found that very funy
Because I´m just as good as my word..
Here I come up with some of my favourites:
Skip the chit-chat,
get down to the nitty gritty!
(I´m sure you also like them, Álex!)
Can you finish this one..?
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE...
Bye,
Carmela
Alive and kicking, is my favourite one.
Sorry for not telling much about this, there are many reasons to choose this one.... but I´m very bad at my english speak.
I love alive and kicking.
Hi!
Thanks for the comments.
You're right, Carmela, I'd rather cut to the chase than sit and chew the fat all day long.
Let's see what others think
Hello everybody, at first I had to confess that didn´t understand all the text but, with a little help, i could find the meaning.
My favourites idioms are which are related with animals because I love them. Here you have some examples:
"let the cat out of the bag"
"cast sheep´s eyes at"
"make a pig´s ear"
And what I found funny was "don´t push my buttons", it´s similar to the spanish idiom but more polite (jaja)
You can find a lot of idioms in this useful page: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
Thanx, Rachel. Great website!
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