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Avocado7891 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

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
  

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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
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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
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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.

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