Using idioms and phrases enhances the quality of your spoken as well as written English and your language looks elegant and eloquent. In essay writing contests, it fetches you good score and keeps you a head of others.
An idiom is a group of words that has a special meaning that is different from the ordinary meaning of each separate word.( Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
A phrase is a group of words that together have a particular meaning, especially when they express the meaning well in a few words. .( Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
Practice ten question on idioms and phrases.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
– H.Jackson Brown Jr
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
– H.Jackson Brown Jr
Directions: Each of the following idioms is followed by four meanings.Indicate which is correct.
#1. A lion’s share
#2. Flying colours
#3. Jump to a conclusion
#4. Make a fool of one self
#5. Magnum Opus
#6. Milk of human kindness
#7. of one’s head
#8. Never say die
#9. Out and out
#10. Pay lip service
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