Posts Tagged ‘ festival ’

No rhyme or reason – Learn English!

May 9, 2012

# 19. No rhyme or reason – PHRASE, no logical explanation or reason : without rhyme or reason his mood changed. Why the picture of the plug? There is no rhyme or reason!
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Pigment – Learn English!

By WildMint

May 9, 2012

# 18. – Pigment |?p?gm(?)nt| noun – No, nothing to do with pigs! A pigment is a natural coloring material made from animals or plants. • used for coloring or painting, when mixed with oil, water, or another liquid, creates a paint or ink.
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Rhyme – Learn English!

By WildMint

May 9, 2012

# 17. Rhyme |r??m| verb – bat rhymes with cat, giraffe rhymes with laugh, blue rhymes with true, pigment rhymes with figment. What is a pigment? Good question! It’ll be answered in the next post! - Rhyme can also be a noun! 1. A word that has the same sound as another. 2. a...
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Figment – Learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 16. Figment |?f?gm(?)nt| noun – a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination : for example: “It was a figment of his very creative imagination”. Other words that mean something similar: Invention, creation, illusion, delusion, fancy, vision, fiction. * Any character in a fictional story is...
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Get over the writer’s block – Learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 15. Writer’s block – a “block” is an obstacle to the normal progress or functioning of something. When a writer experiences “writer’s block” they can’t write, they feel uninspired. * William Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays. Do you think he ever suffered from writer’s block? - Writer’s block occurs when a writer can’t...
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And then it clicked – Learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 14. Click – a word often seen on the internet, but what does it mean? A “click” is a short, sharp sound often made by a switch being operated or two hard objects coming quickly into contact. In the computer world, to “click” is to press down on the computer mouse. This is...
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It’s a snap to learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 13. Snap out of it – informal, you can’t tell a depressed person to just snap out of it. To “snap out of it” means to recover, get over it, get better. But sometimes when you are feeling down you just have to snap out of it! The word snap can mean many...
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Like chalk and cheese – Learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 11. Like chalk and cheese – a British/Australian phrase used when talking about two very different things (complete opposites). If two things (or people) are “like chalk and cheese” they are as DIFFERENT to each other as chalk is completely different to cheese. * You write on a blackboard with chalk. You eat...
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Apple and oranges – Learn English!

By WildMint

April 6, 2012

# 12. To compare apples and oranges – to compare two people or things that are very different. Making the mistake that two things are exactly the same when they are not. An unreasonable comparison. For example, comparing Australian and Czech culture is like comparing apples and oranges. It wouldn’t be right to say...
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