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IDIOM

Session 6

An idiom is an expression that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words.

For example: It’s raining cats and dogs. Its literal meaning suggests that cats and dogs are falling from the sky. We interpret it to mean that it is raining hard.

Unlike proverbs and similies, idioms have no fixed form and come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Our language abounds with colorful idioms. New ones are added each day. An idiom usually originates with a specific group - television, sailors, housewives, teachers, poets, or politicians - then spreads to more general use by others.

Write down four idioms that have expression in your life.

Write down the meaning of the idioms you created.

Get into your poetry group. Share idioms and the meanings they have. Have the group choose the best (most creative) idiom and share it with the class.

Check out  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/   for idoms and their meanings

Draw a poster illustrating your favorite idiom and share it with the class.

Complete the worksheet - Idioms:

Worksheet on Idioms

Name:_______________________________________

Directions: Write the meanings of these frequently used idioms:

1. wear your heart on your sleeve _________________________

2. see eye to eye________________________

3. under the weather_____________________

4. stuffed to the gills_____________________

5. out of the frying pan and into the fire________

6. slow boat to China_____________________

7. nose to the grindstone___________________

8. on tenterhooks_____________________

9. fly off the handle_______________________

10. blow your own trumpet_____________________

11. pie in the sky__________________________

12. head in the sand________________________

13. lay down the law_______________________

14. born yesterday__________________________

15. feel like a million dollars________________________

16. just what the doctor ordered________________

17. hold your horses_________________________

18. cat has your tongue_______________________

19. going bananas___________________________

20. bury the hatchet__________________________

21.  beating a dead horse________________

22.  got your nose out of joint_________________________

23.  to be feeling blue_______________________

24.  put your best foot forward___________________________

25.  kick it in the guts __________________________