{"id":3067,"date":"2012-08-03T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T10:59:47","slug":"vol-4-issue-32-article-some-common-english-idioms-by-debra-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 4 Issue 32 \u2013 Article: &#8216;Some Common English Idioms&#8217; by Debra Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong style=\"color: #ff0000; text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#32 | August 6, 2012 |\u00a0<strong>ISSN 0975-3036<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the hardest things to learn in any language is the colloquialisms. Old\u00a0words and phrases that are commonly used among native speakers but have no real\u00a0relevance to modern language. In English, these are known as idioms. They can be\u00a0widely used or constrained to certain geographical areas. They can make sense or\u00a0be completely inane. What they have in common, however, is that native speakers\u00a0will understand the idea behind the idiom where English learners will not.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To help those learning English, here are some common English idioms, their\u00a0meanings, and an example of their use. This is by no means an exhaustive list,\u00a0but it does give you some understanding of this language oddity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ELTWeekly-Idioms.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3071\" title=\"ELTWeekly Idioms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ELTWeekly-Idioms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/center><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This guest post is contributed by Debra Johnson, blogger and editor of<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveinnanny.com\/\">full time nanny<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0She welcomes your comments at her email Id: &#8211; <strong>jdebra84 @\u00a0<\/strong><strong>gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest things to learn in any language is the colloquialisms. Old words and phrases that are commonly used among native speakers but have no real relevance to modern language. In English, these are known as idioms. They can be widely used or constrained to certain geographical areas. They can make sense or be completely inane. What they have in common, however, is that native speakers will understand the idea behind the idiom where English learners will not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","omw_enable_modal_window":"enable","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,39,190],"tags":[1070],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elt-articles-and-research-papers","category-elt-newsletter","category-eltweekly-vol-4-issue-32","tag-eltweekly-vol-4-issue-32","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}