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Avocado7891 Posted 15 years ago
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Idioms-help!
Hello Gentlemen and ladies. As you might know I read quite voraciously. I go through a lot of unsual idioms and i usually know their meaning. But I recollected quite a few which i did not know the meaning of. I was hoping someone here would help me.Here are the idioms ( this will be usually right if my memory serves me )
Blood is thicker than water
entering a rat race
nail colors to the mast
square away
my cup runneth ( run ? ) over
Blood is thicker than water
entering a rat race
nail colors to the mast
square away
my cup runneth ( run ? ) over
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Hi, As you might know I read quite voraciously. I go through a lot of unsual idioms and i usually know their meaning. But I recollected quite a few which i did not know the meaning of.
- Hi, As you might know I read quite voraciously.
- I go through a lot of unsual idioms and i usually know their meaning.
- But I recollected quite a few which i did not know the meaning of.
- Here are the idioms ( this will be usually right if my memory serves me ) Blood is thicker than water Family member re more important than people who are not your famiiy entering a rat race The expression usually just is eg My office is a rat race It's like rats racing, where each person will do anything, even somehing immoral or vicious, in order to be more successful than the others .
- I'm tired of the rat race.
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Hi,
As you might know I read quite voraciously. I go through a lot of unsual idioms and i usually know their meaning. But I recollected quite a few which i did not know the meaning of. I was hoping someone here would help me.Here are the idioms ( this will be usually right if my memory serves me )
Blood is thicker than water Family member re more important than people who are no
As you might know I read quite voraciously. I go through a lot of unsual idioms and i usually know their meaning. But I recollected quite a few which i did not know the meaning of. I was hoping someone here would help me.Here are the idioms ( this will be usually right if my memory serves me )
Blood is thicker than water Family member re more important than people who are no
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Thanks.......I thought nail colors to the mast was related to pirates showing themselves with flags.
Anyway Thank you very much Clive
Anyway Thank you very much Clive
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Hi,
Here's the underlying idea.
In a ship to ship battle, lowering your flag is a sign of surrender.
If you nail your flag to the mast, you can't lower it. It means you will never surrender. You will fight to the death.
Here's the underlying idea.
In a ship to ship battle, lowering your flag is a sign of surrender.
If you nail your flag to the mast, you can't lower it. It means you will never surrender. You will fight to the death.
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