1. IDIOMS
GRAMMAR REVIEW #2

2. What are idioms?
Idiom =
Group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words OR
A combination of words that have a figurative meaning due to its common usage

3. COMMON EXAMPLES It’s raining cats and dogs.
- raining very heavily; there’s a downpour
Don’t spill the beans!
- to let out a secret
Why are you feeling blue?
- to feel sad
Put a cork in it.
- impolite way to say “shut up”
Break a leg!
- good luck

4. IDIOMS ACROSS LANGUAGES
“to kick the bucket”
DANISH  “to take off the clogs”
German  “to look at the radishes from
underneath”
Spanish  “To pop off”
Ukrainian  “to cut the oak”
Italian  “to pull the skins”
FRENCH  “To break his pipe”

5. “We can chalk it up to experience” (14)
BISP EXAMPLE
TO DECIDE THAT INSTEAD OF BEING UPSET ABOUT SOMETHING BAD THAT YOU HAVE DONE OR THAT HAS HAPPENED, YOU WILL LEARN FROM IT