Quia
Quia: Idioms
Teacher-created matching squares game designed to help students learn 15 common English expressions, or idioms, that use face words, like "play it by ear" or "to be nosy."
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Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Using Idioms Is a Piece of Cake [Pdf]
Teaching about idioms can be great fun. Why are idioms important? Idioms are important so that young scholars can understand what everyone is saying! Idioms are a part of the figurative language. Using the Literal language (as in saying...
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The Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins of Phrases
The free section of this site provides the meanings and origins of thousands of quotations, euphemisms, popular fallacies and misheard song lyrics. A British site, some of the expressions are not familiar to most Americans.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Topic Vocabulary Reference
Links to information and lists of English words and phrases by category. Includes information on the difference between a dictionary and thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms, confusing words, figures of speech, eponyms, euphemisms, sayings,...
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The Phrase Finder: Home Page
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...