...__________________________________ An idiom (pronounced: ID-ee-um) is a saying that doesn’t mean exactly what it says. Idioms by Lill Pluta Wouldn’t you be tickled pink, with everything except the sink? But all that glitters isn’t gold, so don’t get left out in the cold. You can’t have cake and eat it too, or bite off more than you can chew. It’s easy come and easy go, so hold your tongue, or you’ll eat crow. If someone tells you, “You can't have your cake and eat it too,” what do they mean? If you're tickled pink, how do you feel? Super Teacher Worksheets - What does it mean if you have to eat crow? www.superteacherworksheets.com Name: __________________________________ Idioms Use with Idiom Poem by Lill Pluta An idiom is an old saying that doesn’t mean exactly what it says. Every culture has its own idioms, which can make learning a new language confusing. Match each idiom from the poem to its meaning. 1. ____ tickled pink a. admit you are wrong 2. ____ everything except the sink b. leave somebody out, exclude 3. ____ all that glitters isn’t gold c. don’t say anything 4. ____ left out in the cold d. extremely happy, delighted 5. ____ can't have your cake and eat it too e. lose something as quickly as you get it 6. ____ bite off more than you can chew f. can't have something both ways 7. ____ easy come, easy go g. try to do too much at one time 8. ____ hold your tongue h. taking almost everything...
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...My Way by Paul Anka 1969; A Song Lyrics Analysis * Lyrics My Way by Paul Anka 1969 And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full. I've traveled each and every highway; But more, much more than this, I did it my way. Regrets, I've had a few; But then again, too few to mention. I did what I had to do And saw it through without exemption. I planned each charted course; Each careful step along the byway, But more, much more than this, I did it my way. Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew When I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall; And did it my way. I've loved, I've laughed and cried. I've had my fill; my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. To think I did all that; And may I say - not in a shy way, "No, oh no not me, I did it my way". For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels; And not the words of one who kneels. The record shows I took the blows - And did it my way! * Theme The lyrics of "My Way" tell the story of a man who, having grown old, reflects on his life as death approaches. He is comfortable with his mortality and takes responsibility for how he dealt with all the challenges of life while...
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...always been more on the cautious side, preferring to stand back, observe, listen and analyze a situation. I’ve always admired people who are not like me, people who are more daring, or willing to throw caution to the wind. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. What challenges did he or she face and overcome? In 1982, Mark Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas Cuban first found work as a bartender, then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas. He was terminated less than a year later, after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store What failures did this person have? Got a job working for a carpenter laying carpet and quickly learned he was absolutely horrible at it How many companies have he or she started? Started AudioNet in 1995, The Company, despite its early critics, proved to be a smash success. Renamed Broadcast.com, the firm went public in 1998 and soon saw its stock reach $200 a share. A year later, Wagner and Cuban sold out to Yahoo! for nearly $6 billion Purchasing an NBA Team In 2000, Mark Cuban introduced himself to the NBA community when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million from Ross Perot Jr. How successful is he or she? At the age of 32, Cuban was a millionaire who could afford to live in the big houses that he used to drive by as a down-on-his-luck bartender. More importantly,...
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...A hot potato | A penny for your thoughts | Actions speak louder than words | Add insult to injury | An arm and a leg | At the drop of a hat | Back to the drawing board | Ball is in your court | Barking up the wrong tree | Be glad to see the back of | Beat around the bush | Best of both worlds | Best thing since sliced bread | Bite off more than you can chew | Blessing in disguise | Burn the midnight oil | Can't judge a book by its cover | Caught between two stools | Costs an arm and a leg | Cross that bridge when you come to it | Cry over spilt milk | Curiosity killed the cat | Cut corners | Cut the mustard | Devil's Advocate | Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched | Don't give up the day job | Don't put all your eggs in one basket | Drastic times call for drastic measures | Elvis has left the building | Every cloud has a silver lining | Far cry from | Feel a bit under the weather | Give the benefit of the doubt | A chip on your shoulder | A dime a dozen | A fool and his money are soon parted | A piece of cake | All Greek to me | Back to square one | Beating a dead horse | Between a rock and a hard place | Break the ice | Burst your bubble | A chip on your shoulder | Close but no cigar | Cry wolf | Curiosity killed the cat | Cut the mustard | Cut to the chase | A whale of time | Over the moon | In a nutshell | Flying colours...
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...shape, and/or form. In this report I will tell and explain how some of these are done and the physics behind them. Here are the topics I choose to show the physics in them. The physics of speech, the physics in damns and power producing, the physics of eat and chewing, the physics of children’s swing/swings in general, and the one that affects all of us the physics of gravity. These topics range from childhood past times and how we do so much with the advancement in technology to the forces we experience and life by in everyday life. I’m going to start off with the physics that is involved when you eat and chew. If you look that this function you can see that the lower jaw in eating acts as both a second class and a third class lever. It is cleared up when thinking in terms with this example, "When you bite using your front teeth, such as munching a bite out of an apple, your lower jaw acts as a third class lever. When you crunch on the apple with your molars, your lower jaw now acts as a second class lever." (**) These two levers interchange depending on where the load goes to in the mouth. So this is a very advanced lever system. In this though the lever not only acts as an average lever, but also as an inelastic collusion where the item or load in the mouth is cursed form the lower jaw acting as lever picks up the load and colliding with the upper jaw. This is also rotational force, which crushes the objects in the mouth. The force from the lower jaw is equal to around...
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...Wolf. But instead of giving us a friendly little hour and a half film about a boy who figures out he’s born into a family of werewolves, we get a television series about a young asthmatic boy who in midst of beginning his Sophomore year in high school, ends up taking- or receiving- too big a bite for his slightly crooked but charming jaw to chew. Scott McCall, a character so closely named and only slightly modeled after the classic Michael J Fox character is the main protagonist of this story. He, his family, friends, and enemies all live in the midst of a supernatural world in the small town of Beacon Hills, California. With a set of writers like Jeff Davis, the mind behind Criminal Minds, Jeff Vlaming, one of the many people who works on NCIS and Fringe, and Monica Macer who worked on Lost, Prison Break, and 24- there’s no way this show could be anything but intelligent, smart, and completely fun, right? Well, minus a few incredibly cheesy moments that seem to make the viewer cringe away, that statement is completely true. Teen Wolf, a show trying desperately to keep its fame while flailing around madly amidst episodes of 16 and Pregnant and The Jersey Shore, is an MTV hit that has a lot more heart than expected. As the Pilot begins, the audience finds themselves thrown in the middle of a murder mystery. After a long shot through the woods, we’re introduced to the ever-so-charming Scott McCall, and his dubiously hyperactive friend, Stiles Stilinski. The comical pair immediately...
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...A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush: Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because chances are you might lose everything. A Blessing In Disguise: Something good that isn't recognized at first. A Chip On Your Shoulder: Being upset for something that happened in the past. A Dime A Dozen: Anything that is common and easy to get. A Doubting Thomas: A skeptic who needs physical or personal evidence in order to believe something. A Drop in the Bucket: A very small part of something big or whole. A Fool And His Money Are Easily Parted: It's easy for a foolish person to lose his/her money. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: Everyone involved must unify and function together or it will not work out. A Leopard Can't Change His Spots: You cannot change who you are. A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned: By not spending money, you are saving money (little by little). A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words. A Piece of Cake: A task that can be accomplished very easily. A Slap on the Wrist: A very mild punishment. A Taste Of Your Own Medicine: When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others. A Toss-Up: A result that is still unclear and can go either way. Actions Speak Louder Than Words: It's better to actually do something than just talk about it. Add Fuel To The Fire: Whenever something is done...
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...hiking in the park. Then it happens. You get injured, and now you have a dental emergency. In every case, the best thing to do is call our Jeffersonville, IN dental office at 812-406-0914 as soon as you can. There are a few important things you should do right away depending on your situation — for example, using a cold pack to reduce swelling when you’ve chipped a tooth. Once done, call us so we can help. Here’s how to handle the most common minor and serious dental emergencies. Minor Emergencies Something is caught between your teeth: Hopefully, you are only using your teeth to chew food. Even then, you can get something hard...
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...presence of X implies the presence of Y employer/employee send/receive buy/sell predator/prey LING 200 -- McGarrity 5 Lexical decomposition Analyzing a word’s meaning by breaking it down into its semantic components or features + CHICKEN + HORSE + SHEEP + MALE ‘rooster’ ‘stallion’ ‘ram’ + FEMALE ‘hen’ ‘mare’ ‘ewe’ What other semantic features are there? LING 200 -- McGarrity 6 Evidence for semantic features Slips of the tongue (i.e., performance errors): bridge of the nose bridge of the neck he got hot under the collar he got hot under the belt my thesis is too long my thesis is too short LING 200 -- McGarrity 7 Evidence for semantic features Aphasia: acquired brain damage which leads to language impairments Can lead to naming impairments restricted to semantic categories e.g., fruits/vegetables, animals, tools LING 200 -- McGarrity 8 Evidence for semantic features Semantic Priming: Responses in lexical decision tasks (i.e., “Is it a word?”) are faster if the current word is semantically related to the previous word i.e., Recognizing doctor as a real word is faster if the previous word is nurse instead of chair LING 200 -- McGarrity 9...
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...always easy; I can make the most of it and do my best by not give up . My mother didn’t beat around the bush, I needed to pull myself up from my bootstraps. These phrases are still relevant in todays’ classroom. What can we do to encourage our students to keep learning and growing? Through this post we will explore ideas that will benefit all students regardless of learning style and ability. Praise and Motivation- Not all students learn at the same rate, by using encouraging words students...
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...As I bring the freshly washed dishes back to the counter for a refill, I am quickly surrounded by a mass of purring felines clawing at my sneakers. Grabbing the food from the freestanding pantry, I begin to fill the dishes, counting each scoop in my head until I reach the third and final one. Avoiding the trail of cats following my every step, I place the bowls of food back down on the ground, observing the swarm of cats circling their meal; waiting for an open spot. Making my way back to the other room, I begin my next task. Finding an unused brush on the concrete floors, I start scraping away the film of cat hair that coats each bed. I peer into one of the small cat houses to see Dymo, an orange tabby cat who was abused as a kitten. As...
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...cases a cut may needed in your gum or maybe the tooth will have to be cut into smaller pieces to be removed. After this is completely done, the area which was cut or the hole that remains may be sowed or stitched together. Recovery might a couple of days or weeks depending on how many wisdom teeth got removed and how deep they were. Pain medications are usually prescribed and resting is advised. Physical activities is not permitted for the first couple of days of recovery. Soft foods and drinks are recommended since the whole mouth area will feel very sensitive, you’ll possibly look like a chipmunk. But it goes away, after the first couple of days, if you take your medications, eat right, and ice your face. Then before you even realize, you’ll have your regular looking face back and you’ll be able to eat all you want again, just more...
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...Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day? Is overtime becoming the norm for you? Do you wish you had more time to spend doing the things that you really want to do? Most likely you answered yes to one or more of these questions and feel like you are not really where you want to be in life. Maybe work is not going how you would like. Or you could be feeling guilty because you are not spending enough time at home with your family. However, don't worry just yet. There is a solution to this problem and it is far easier than you might think. It only takes a few small adjustments in the way you use your time to change your life forever. This is not only about managing your time effectively, it can change your life fundamentally and for the better. This time management article shows you the importance of managing yourself There are 24 hours in the day. This is something that will not change and we can do nothing about it. While you may not be able to control this, you can manage yourself. Once you realize this you have taken the first step towards effective time management. You must look at the things that are important to you in life and devote your time to these. Everything else should be eliminated from your life. Managing your time effectively will bring about some dramatic improvements in your life, but you must be prepared to make some fundamental changes. Because of this, you need to take one step at a time. If you bite off more than you...
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...Subway, Panera Bread and Wholefoods are just some of the "healthy" choices for consumers. Yet McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and Five Guys are reportedly doing well, serving food that some observers regard as somewhat "unhealthy". If you were asked to explain this from a marketing point of view, how would you do so using your knowledge of consumer behavior and market segmentation? Is it ethical for a company to sell food that may cause health problems for the individual sometime in the future? Have firms got some responsibility here? **“Marketers who target consumers on the basis of their values believes that with appeals to people’s inner selves, it is possible to influence their outer selves” (Kotler & Keller, 2012). It is up to the discretion of the consumer purchasing the “unhealthy” foods from fast food chains such as McDonald’s, Burger King etc. What one may deem unhealthy, another may have an alternate view point. Further, one can state that although, these foods are thought to be unhealthy only if eaten on a consistent basis. Further, an individual may state that they occasionally dine out and cater to their fast food cravings. Conversely, these companies’ can also have a hand in shaping the purchasing power of their consumers if they would advertise their “healthy” foods as much as they advertise what they are notable for. In regards to long-term or future health issues for consumers, fast food companies should not be responsible for the choices individuals make...
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...opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson 4. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn 5. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash 6. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect .- Adam Osborne 7. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell 8. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman 9. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein 10. You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs 11. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie 12. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou 13. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker 14. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti 15. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy 16. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job....
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