Saturday, 28 January 2017
Friday, 20 January 2017
CUTTING YOUR TEETH ON...
cut
your teeth
to get
your first experience of a particular type of work and learn the
basic skills (often + on
)
She cut
her teeth on a local newspaper before landing a job on a national
daily.
The
hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers.
Photocopies from 17th January 2017
Photocopies from 19th January 2017
audio about Japanese toilets
Friday, 13 January 2017
NOSEY PARKER
a 'nosy
parker', also spelled 'nosey
parker', is
a person of an overly inquisitive or prying nature.
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
TAKE THE PLUNGE!
plunge noun an act of jumping or diving into water; a quick swim.
to take the plunge figurative to make a decision to do something, especially after thinking about it for a long time; commit oneself to a course of action about which one is nervous.
She
wondered whether to enter for the race, but decided to take the
plunge
They're
finally taking the plunge and getting married.
He
decided to take the plunge and become a full-time professional
musician
Synonyms: commit oneself, go for it,
throw caution to the wind(s), give it one's all, give it all one has,
go all out;jump in at the deep end, go for broke
photocopies from 10th January
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