the driver’s seat” from the movie Apollo 13 is figure of speech. A figure of speech is an idiom‚ metaphor‚ or simile. In this case‚ the quote is an idiom. An idiom is a figure of speech that is meant not to be taken literally. It’s raining cats and dogs is an example of an idiom. This idiom just means it’s raining hard. It does not mean it is literally raining cats and dogs. Some songs even have idioms in them. Jim Lovell was the flight commander in Apollo 13. The situation that led Jim to saying
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LVIV ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SIMILE VERSUS COMPARATIVE IDIOM: TYPES AND FUNCTIONS IN THE TEXT COURSE PAPER PRESENTED BY Hotsur A.M.‚ a fourth year student of the English department SUPERVISED BY Lototska K. J.‚ an assistant professor of the English department LVIV - 2009 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………...3 Simile: types and functions in the text……………………………………………..4 Comparative idiom: types and functions in the text......……………………….….10
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Partner with us [pic] | |The idiom dictionary is compiled from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. The Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms explains over 7‚000 idioms current in British‚ American and Australian English‚ helping learners to understand them and use them with confidence. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms‚ based on the 200 million words of American English text in the Cambridge International Corpus‚
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Annie Dillard’s essay “ It’s Not Talent: It’s Just Work” has many little jokes or comedic remarks. Those jokes allow her to get her main point across‚ while also giving the reader something to enjoy. Not only does her essay use jokes‚ but it also uses idioms to grab the reader’s attention. Dillard has a few good comedic remarks in her essay that help portray to her main idea. Her first remark was used at the end of her first paragraph saying‚”Doing something does not require discipline; it creates its
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Investigationes Linguisticae‚ vol. IX‚ Poznań‚ April 2003 ∗ Understanding Different Cultural Patterns or Orientations Between East and West∗ Liu Qingxue ∗∗ Shijiazhuang Mechanical Engineering College Hebei‚ CHINA liuqx1952@yahoo.com.cn Abstract Rudyard Kipling says in the Ballad of East and West: “East is East‚ and West is West; and never the twain shall meet.” Yet‚ he never expected that with the technological development in transportation and communication‚ the Westerners and Easterners
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1007/s11013-010-9177-8 ORIGINAL PAPER Association of Trauma-Related Disorders and Dissociation with Four Idioms of Distress Among Latino Psychiatric Outpatients ´ Roberto Lewis-Fernandez • Magdaliz Gorritz • ´ Greer A. Raggio • Clara Pelaez • Henian Chen • Peter J. Guarnaccia Published online: 23 April 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC 2010 Abstract Past research on idioms of distress among U.S. Latinos has revealed that ataque de nervios and altered perceptions‚ such as hearing
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the topic for my interpretive speech today is ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’. This is an idiom which carries the meaning of - it is always possible to get something positive out of a situation‚ no matter how unpleasant‚ difficult or even painful it might seem. So‚ people always use this idiom to comfort others who are facing difficulties. First I want to tell about how I got to know about this idiom. In this semester‚ I was very stressed when I was doing one of my assignments. I won’t deny
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1 Introduction The aim of this work is to introduce the notion of equivalence in translation. The work will deal with the term equivalence in general it will also shortly describe various problems which can arise when finding proper equivalent in translation. And then the views of two linguists will be introduced. Linguists Eugene Nida‚ Charles R. Taber and Mona Baker. The work will look closer on their approaches and it will try to describe their views on equivalence. 2 What is equivalence
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Heritage dictionary of idioms‚ ISBN 9780395727744 Fatima Oliveira‚ M. (2013). Multicultural Environments and Their Challenges to Crisis Communication. Journal Of Business Communication‚ 50(3)‚ 253-277. doi:10.1177/0021943613487070 Hodgetts‚ R M and Luthans‚ Fred‚ (1994). International Management‚ New York : McGraw‚ Hill. Kundu‚ S. C. (2001). Managing cross-cultural diversity. Delhi Business Review‚ 2(2). Mawr‚ Mrs E. B. (1885)‚ "Hell is paved with good intentions"‚ Analogous Proverbs In Ten Languages‚
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