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"Hands down" and "cold feet"
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idioms
Alternative clues for the word idioms
- "Chew the fat" and "eat crow"
- Hurdles for language learners
- Hot potatoes and cold fish?
- Vernacular phrases
- "Crack a joke" and "cut corners," e.g
- See red, talk a blue streak, etc
- "Toe the line" and "thumb a ride," for example: 2 wds
- "Hands down" and "eating crow," for two
- They're hard to translate
- Challenges for language learners
Usage examples of idioms.
My preface was in French, but full of Parisian idioms which rendered it unintelligible to all who had not visited the gay capital, and this circumstance gained me a good many friends amongst the younger generation.
But if the French laughed at my mistakes in speaking their language, I took my revenge amply by turning some of their idioms into ridicule.
Tolkien himself provided, introducing unattested idioms or long circumlocutions where necessary to work around gaps in the Tolkien-made vocabulary?
Betty spoke Tuscan with English idioms and an English accent, but her voice was so silvery and clear that her Italian was delightful to listen to.