IDIOMS AND FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS

IDIOMS and FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS are often used in our conversation.They are groups of two or more words which must be learnt as a whole because the meaning of the expression may be different from the meanings of its parts. IDIOMS apple pie order as the crow flies a snake in the grass behind the scenes break the ice by any means bit the dust butter someone up bury the hatchet carried away cat and dog life clean break close-fisted dirt cheap down to earth face the music gain around get over go bananas hard up in a nutshell MEANINGS in perfect order in a straight line an enemy who strikes under cover in private be the first to begin in any way possible to fail,die or stop something flatter make peace very excited life full of quarrels quick and final miserly extremely cheap practical take punishment make progress forget act crazily short of money briefly