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!Celebrate the new year with the Idioms for new year

Celebrate the new year with the Idioms for new year

Happy new year, let's ring out the old year and ring in the new by learning some idioms which are connected with New Year

.A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year

.So many mists in March, so many frosts in May

.April and May are the keys of the year

.Coming events cast their shadows before

.Happy is the bride that the sun shines on

Turn of the year/century: The time when a new year/ century starts: It was built at the turn of the year

.One swallow does not make a summer

.One flower does not make a garland

A Dictionary of Proverbs and Colloquial Idioms

Oxford advanced learner's dictionary2005

Farhang Moaser one-volume Millennium English Persian Dictionary

+Written inThu 26 Feb 2009Time1:53 AMByglorya |

Chance Proverbs and Idioms

Chance Proverbs and Idioms

Maryam: Tough luck! I studied a lot, but now look, should it be my marks? Should it be the result of my efforts? The difference between the marks I received and what I anticipated are from the earth to heaven. It seems that the odds are against me

Sarah: It has nothing to do with chance at all. You studied well, but you passed the exams carelessly

Maryam: You mean the chance doesn't exist and it's all groundless and phoney? In my opinion chance exists in every thing. In education, in work, in marriage, in everything you imagine

Sarah: I don't believe in chance at all. As far as I'm concerned, it's ourselves who make our chances. If we study, we try to study carefully, if we are about to work, we have the essential perseverance. If we are going to marry, we try to think wisely and have sensitivity in choice; we never fail in our life

Maryam: So what about sayings about chance like: When fortune knocks, embrace her. To be down in one's luck. To be born under a lucky star. What will happen to them lady? I think it's better to be born luck than rich

Sarah: That's right. I think the proverbs such as Christmas comes but once a year, or if heaven drops a date, open your mouth are showing us the importance and value of time. They ask us to be aware of the opportunities and good situations which are set in our way and use them perfectly

Maryam: Some students pass the exams by the seat of their pants, but successfully. What is the cause of it

Sarah: (laughing) I don't know. You should ask the secret of their success of themselves

Maryam: But as you know we have a snowball's chance in hell in finding job in our course

Sarah: Oh, come on! You are a wet blanket. In the worst situations know that God is beside you. Trust him. Even if, as you said the odds are against you, know it that God is examining you. So try to overcome the difficulties. Try to be a winner in the game of chance

+Written inThu 26 Feb 2009Time1:43 AMByglorya |

!Idiom for the week: ADime A Dozen

...Idiom for the week...

"A Dime A Dozen"

If a thing is very common and easy to get, we say it is "a dime a dozen." Example: "Do you think I should buy this now and bring it with us?" Answer: "Don't bother; those are a dime a dozen where we are going."

There is no need to get excited or worried about finding something that is a dime a dozen. Example: "Look what I found!" Answer: "That's nothing special; those are a dime a dozen."

It is easy to find a dime (a 10 cent US coin), and a dozen (12) of something is a common, everyday unit of measure. You are not in a hurry to get a thing which is a dime a dozen because it is not so special and you could get one any time you wanted. Example: "I don't need friends like him; they are a dime a dozen

+Written inThu 7 Aug 2008Time7:54 PMByglorya |

Poem of English

,Dearest creature in creation
.Study English pronunciation
I will teach you in my verse
.Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse
,I will keep you, Suzy, busy
.Make your head with heat grow dizzy
.Tear in eye, your dress will tear
.So shall I! Oh hear my prayer

,Just compare heart, beard, and heard
,Dies and diet, lord and word
.Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(.Mind the latter, how it's written)
Now I surely will not plague you
.With such words as plaque and ague
:But be careful how you speak
;Say break and steak, but bleak and streak
,Cloven, oven, how and low
.Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe

,Hear me say, devoid of trickery
,Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore
,Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles
;Exiles, similes, and reviles
,Scholar, vicar, and cigar
;Solar, mica, war and far
,One, anemone, Balmoral
;Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel
,Gertrude, German, wind and mind
.Scene, Melpomene, mankind

,Billet does not rhyme with ballet
.Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet
,Blood and flood are not like food
.Nor is mould like should and would
,Viscous, viscount, load and broad
.Toward, to forward, to reward
And your pronunciation's OK
,When you correctly say croquet
,Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve
.Friend and fiend, alive and live

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
.And enamour rhyme with hammer
,River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb
.Doll and roll and some and home
,Stranger does not rhyme with anger
.Neither does devour with clangour
,Souls but foul, haunt but aunt
,Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant
,Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger
,And then singer, ginger, linger
,Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge
.Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age

,Query does not rhyme with very
.Nor does fury sound like bury
.Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth
.Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath
,Though the differences seem little
.We say actual but victual
.Refer does not rhyme with deafer
.Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer
;Mint, pint, senate and sedate
.Dull, bull, and George ate late
,Scenic, Arabic, Pacific
.Science, conscience, scientific

,Liberty, library, heave and heaven
.Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven
,We say hallowed, but allowed
.People, leopard, towed, but vowed
,Mark the differences, moreover
;Between mover, cover, clover
,Leeches, breeches, wise, precise
;Chalice, but police and lice
,Camel, constable, unstable
.Principle, disciple, label

,Petal, panel, and canal
.Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal
,Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair
.Senator, spectator, mayor
.Tour, but our and succour, four
.Gas, alas, and Arkansas
,Sea, idea, Korea, area
.Psalm, Maria, but malaria
.Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean
.Doctrine, turpentine, marine

,Compare alien with Italian
.Dandelion and battalion
,Sally with ally, yea, ye
.Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key
,Say aver, but ever, fever
.Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver
.Heron, granary, canary
.Crevice and device and aerie

.Face, but preface, not efface
.Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass
,Large, but target, gin, give, verging
.Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
.Do not rhyme with here but ere
,Seven is right, but so is even
,Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen
,Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk
.Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work

!Pronunciation -- think of Psyche
?Is a paling stout and spikey
,Won't it make you lose your wits
?Writing groats and saying grits
:It's a dark abyss or tunnel
,Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale
,Islington and Isle of Wight
.Housewife, verdict and indict

--Finally, which rhymes with enough
?Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough
.Hiccough has the sound of cup
!My advice is to give up

+Written inSun 29 Jun 2008Time10:4 PMByglorya |

!Practical english

Pronunciation Practice

.Practice the pairs and sentences below for better pronunciation
eye-pie
eel-peel
air-chair
arm-farm
eel-feel

.They've got their eye on a pie
.The eel ate the peel
.Feel the air in the chair
.She broke her arm on the farm
.The swimmer feels an eel in the pool

Idiom for the Day

……bookworm..……

A bookworm is someone who loves to read and usually spends a good
portion of their waking hours reading a book. Most bookworms are
special for their teachers and parents who often urge other students
.to follow the example of the bookworm
.Example: Most of the bookworms in our class get good grades

Synonyms for the Day

Some new synonyms for the day – dirty, filthy, grubby

.Examples: His dirty shirt was unacceptable for a job interview
.My mother was really annoyed because my filthy dog ruined her carpet
.Get your grubby hands off of my clean tablecloth

+Written inSat 31 May 2008Time12:24 PMByglorya |

**Idioms and synonyms for the day**

Idiom for the Day

……down to the wire...……

If something goes down to the wire, it is settled at the latest
possible time. The current election for the President seems to be
going down to the wire so no one will know the name of the winner
until late in the evening of election day

Example: When the race cars headed for the finish line, they were
tied so the crowd knew it would be down to the wire

Synonyms for the Day

Some new synonyms for the day – charm, charisma, appeal

.Examples: The hostess was popular because of her charm
.The politician won many elections because of her charisma
.The Senator had a lot of appeal for the voters
, Regards

glorya

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+Written inThu 24 Apr 2008Time9:26 PMByglorya |