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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Native Speakers; could you please help me with my MA-Thesis?

1b00Hello,02b02br
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01b00I have put the exact same post on this forum before, but I still need a few more native speakers of English, so I have put this message on again, hoping that a some more native speakers will respond. Thanks to those people who have already helped me.02br
00My name is Ellen and I am a student from The Netherlands. I am currently working on my MA Thesis in Applied Linguistics and I would like to ask you, as native speakers of English, if you can help me by filling in this questionnaire. It will only take you about 10 minutes. 02br
02b00Below you will find a list of English proverbs and fixed expressions. Can you please indicate how transparent you feel that the given proverbs or expressions in English are, by giving them one of the following grades:02br
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01b001 = If you did not know this expression, it would be almost impossible to understand this sentence. 02br
02b002 = If you did not know this expression, this expression would be quite difficult to understand.02br
01b003 = Even if you did not know this expression, this sentence would be quite easy to understand.02br
02b004 = Even if you did not know this expression, it would be almost impossible 01i00not02i00 to understand this sentence.02br
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00The old man drank the young man under the table.02br
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00Clothes make the man. 02br
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00He made a joke to break the ice.02br
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00Where there’s a will, there’s a way. 02br
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00One swallow does not make a summer. 02br
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00Many hands make light work. 02br
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00New brooms sweep clean. 02br
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00The wish is the father to the thought. 02br
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00Tread in someone’s footsteps. 02br
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00That leaves me cold.02br
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00To weep crocodile tears.02br
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00A bad taste in the mouth.02br
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00The scales fell from her eyes. 02br
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00Hand on the baton. 02br
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00There is nothing new under the sun. 02br
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00He has blue blood. 02br
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00If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.02br
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00Rest on your laurels. 02br
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00The bird has flown.02br
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00Lull before the storm. 02br
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00Rats deserting a sinking ship.02br
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00Speech is silver, silence is golden. 02br
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00Her eyes were bigger than her stomach. 02br
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00That remark is below the belt. 02br
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00East, west, home’s best.02br
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00The squeaky wheel gets the grease. 02br
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00A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 02br
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00No room to swing a cat. 02br
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00The proof of the pudding is in the eating.02br
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00Jump out of your skin.02br
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00As red as a beetroot.02br
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00People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. 02br
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00Blow your own trumpet.02br
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00What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.02br
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00Pass the parcel. 02br
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00To be all hat and no cattle.02br
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00Hard words break no bones. 02br
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00An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.02br
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00To kill the goose that lays the golden egg. 02br
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00Well begun is half done. 02br
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00By a long chalk. 02br
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00A watched pot never boils. 02br
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00Fix someone’s wagon. 02br
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00Money for old rope. 02br
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00Measure twice, cut once. 02br
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00To have many irons in the fire. 02br
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00Fine feathers make fine birds. 02br
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00Thank you very much for your help!02br
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00Kind Regards,02br
00Ellen 0-
  

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0 01i 02br 00Native speakers may hesitate to take this survey because it is very difficult (at least for me) to evaluate my knowledge-- since in fact almost all of the expressions are very familiar. Their vocabularies are also spread throughout the greater lexis like mycelia. 02i 02br 02br 00The old man drank the young man under the table.

— Mister Micawber

  • 0 01i 02br 00Native speakers may hesitate to take this survey because it is very difficult (at least for me) to evaluate my knowledge-- since in fact almost all of the expressions are very familiar.
  • Their vocabularies are also spread throughout the greater lexis like mycelia.
  • 02i 02br 02br 00The old man drank the young man under the table.
  • 3 02br 00Clothes make the man.
  • 3 02br 00He made a joke to break the ice.
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00Native speakers may hesitate to take this survey because it is very difficult (at least for me) to evaluate my knowledge-- since in fact almost all of the expressions are very familiar. Their vocabularies are also spread throughout the greater lexis like mycelia. For instance: 'Speech is silver, silence is golden.' Here, both 'silver' and 'golden' carry meaning
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0Thank you for helping me!0-
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hi there,some of the sayings you have quoted are not quite right,it's clothes maketh the man(victorian saying)-one swallow does not a summer make,to tread in someone else's footsteps,it leaves a bad taste in your mouth,the bird has flown the coupe,the remark was a bit below the belt,(pass the parcel is a game played at partys),if you do not know what the sayings mean I would be happy to explain,
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