Help with Idioms, Applebee J., Rush A.

Help with Idioms, Applebee J., Rush A.

   Help with Idioms helps you to enrich your language and understand native speakers more easily. Saying She was angry with me will communicate your meaning adequately, but to say She tore me o ff a strip is far more evocative and exciting. Help with Idioms explains and practises a selection of idioms commonly used in everyday English. There are approximately 150 entries which are divided into seven sections for easy reference. Every section has its own introduction giving further details about the particular group. For example, the introduction for Slang explains what it is and when it is used.

Help with Idioms, Applebee J., Rush A.


SIMILES AND METAPHORS.
This section is a collection of some of the most useful and common similes and metaphors. Such expressions can be inventive and original but the most common ones are familiar enough to be cliches (see Foreign idioms section!) They are expressions which everyone understands instantly. They give information about behaviour, reactions, opinions and so on, without long explanations. Although similes and metaphors have the same purpose, they are expressed in different ways.

A simile is an expression which compares what you are talking about to an apparently unconnected object or situation. For example, To Jenny, the bad news was like water o ff a duck’s back likens the effect of the bad news to the way water runs quickly off a duck’s feathers. Water seems to have no effect on a duck—it soon shakes it off and looks dry again. In the same way the bad news has no effect on Jenny—it is soon shaken off and forgotten. All similes take the form as... as... or like...



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