Hello fellas:) Today we’re going to talk about…. Education! We’re going to talk about idioms related to it. Let’s start!
- Learn something off by heart. Meaning: to learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory.
- Example:
- “Danya learnt everything in the book off by heart.”
- Example:
- Three Rs. Meaning: used to refer to the basic areas of education: reading, writing and arithmetic.
- Example:
- “Some people could easily leave school without even mastering the basic three Rs.”
- Example:
- With flying colors. Meaning: to do something very successfully.
- Example:
- “Della hopes that she could pass all her exams with flying colors.”
- Example:
- Bookworm. Meaning: someone who reads a lot.
- Example:
- “Is Nina a bookworm?”
- Example:
- Copycat. Meaning: someone who does or says exactly the same as someone else.
- Example:
- “Don’t be a copycat. Do them with your own way.”
- Example:
That’s all I can share for today, fellas. Do you often use those idioms?
Compiled and written by @waitatiri at @EnglishTips4U on Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
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^MD
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