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Pucca Posted 19 years ago
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On the beach

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00I don't really know how to express or describe the idiom I want to know. Last year my English teacher taught us an idiom that is used while being on the beach but not swimming. I am not sure..but I think that it's used when you go for a walk along the beach with your feet in the water:S.02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Pucca12cite 10Hello everybody,12br 12br 10I don't really know how to express or describe the idiom I want to know. Last year my English teacher taught us an idiom that is used while being on the beach but not swimming. 02font 02b 00 0-

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Pucca12cite 10Hello everybody,12br 12br 10I don't really know how to express or describe the idiom I want to know.
  • Last year my English teacher taught us an idiom that is used while being on the beach but not swimming.
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01cite10Pucca12cite10Hello everybody,12br
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10I don't really know how to express or describe the idiom I want to know. Last year my English teacher taught us an idiom that is used while being on the beach but not swimming. I am not sure..but I think that it's used when you go for a walk along the beach with your f
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0 Could it be 'paddling on the beach'? It's not an idiom, though.0-
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00Philip, what does "wading" mean? 02br
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00Conchita57, yes! It was that one! Padding on the beach, but why isn't it an idiom? I thought it was..what is it then?:S02br
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00..do they mean the same? (I mean "wading" and "padding on the beach")02br
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00Thanks in advance!:)0-
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01cite10Pucca12cite10..do they mean the same? (I mean "wading" and "padding on the beach")12br
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00to paddle - to dabble in water with hands or feet02br
00to wade - to walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other sid
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0 Thanks Selecter!:) 0-
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0 According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 'wade' is also American English for 'paddle':02br
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00to walk with bare feet through shallow water, often at the edge of the sea:02br
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01cite10Conchita5712cite10According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 'wade' is also American English for 'paddle':12br
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11b10paddle12b10 10(WALK)10 10UK10 15012br
10verb10 10[ I ]10 (10US10 10wade10) 12br
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01cite10Pucca12cite10Conchita57, yes! It was that one! Padd11b10l12b10ing on the beach, but why isn't it an idiom? I thought it was..what is it then?12br
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10An idiom is a particularly colloquial expression where the words do not have their literal meaning [such a
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0 Conchita57, thanks for your explanation!02br
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00But is "paddling" always used in gerund? Would it be possible to say "The other day I paddled on the beach"?02br
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01cite10Selecter12cite10That's right but wade and paddle have differences in meaning even in american english. At least your post didn't prove that both mean the same thing (walk across the river and walk along the seashore aren't the same thing)12blockquote
10Oh dear, let's disentangle this: 'paddle' and 'wade' have
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