English Idioms in Use – Advanced

What are idioms?
Formulaic language
Idioms are a type of formulaic language. Formulaic language consists of fixed expressions
which you learn and understand as units rather than as individual words, for example:
greetings and good wishes: Hi there! See you soon! Happy birthday!
prepositional phrases: at the moment, in a hurry, from time to time.
sayings, proverbs and quotations: It’s a small world! Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. To be or
not to be – that is the question.
compounds: car park, bus stop, home-made.
phrasal verbs: take off, look after, turn down.
collocations: blonde hair, deeply disappointed.

Idioms
Idioms are fixed combinations of words whose meaning is often difficult to guess from the
meaning of each individual word.
For example, if I say ‘I put my foot in it the other day at Linda’s house – I asked her if she
was going to marry Simon’, what does it mean? If you do not know that put your foot in
it means say something accidentally which upsets or embarrasses someone, it is difficult to
know exactly what the sentence means. It has a non-literal or idiomatic meaning.
Idioms are constructed in different ways, and this book gives you practice in a wide variety
of types of idiom. Here are some examples:
Tim took a shine to [immediately liked] his teacher. (verb+ object+ preposition)
The band’s number one hit was just a flash in the pan [something that happens only once]
(idiomatic noun phrase)
Little Jimmy has been as quiet as a mouse [extremely quiet] all day.
We arrived safe and sound [safely].
Idioms are often based on everyday things and ideas, for example, the human body:
Mark and Alistair don’t see eye to eye. [don’t agree with each other]

English Idioms in Use – Advanced pdf:
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