Article: Easy Indonesian Vocabulary: 1001 Essential Words.

Article: Curious cat catchwords.(idiomatic expressions)
Odyssey;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ..."Cat got your tongue?" Someone may have said this to you the last time you were speechless. The popular phrase from the 1800s refers to a nasty whip with nine stinging strands called a "cat-o'-nine-tails" that was used in maritime punishments. A visit from this cat would likely leave a sailor

Article: Bee--a busy word.(idiomatic expressions)
Fun For Kidz;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Bee: the word shows up in many everyday phrases. Some are self-explanatory, others have a history. "Busy as a bee" has been around since the time of poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1343-1400. Bees are always doing something. It's easy to imagine someone long ago saying to an industrious person, "My, aren't

Article: Playing it smart: going global means finding readers, managing ...
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  November 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Playing it smart From recognizing nuances in the language of a direct mail piece to settin up fulfillment or printing operations overseas, U.S. publishers face a continually evolving challenge when it comes to finding and keeping foreign subscribers and readers. Whether the subject be 1992 and the

Article: Verbal idioms in focus - towards the continuum of ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... have been published in which one can find the classes of idiomatic expressions and their features (e.g., Makkai 1972; Fraser 1970 ... the present paper is to try to compare four classes of idiomatic expressions of verbal nature -- phraseological verbs, phrasal verbs ...

Article: Engineering Communication
American Fastener Journal;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... same but have different meaning, idiomatic expressions that are puzzling to even natives ... as spoken, has nearly 8,000 idiomatic expressions and hundreds of words that even ... misinterpretations and lack of exact meaning in idiomatic expressions. The EEC is faced with a similar ...

Article: Ottavio Lurati. Per modo di dire.... Storia della lingua e ...
Italica;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... This book on Italian and European idiomatic expressions is a treasure trove in which the ... 11-133) is a dense account of idiomatic expressions that are shared by Romance and ... histories of semantic fields of idiomatic expressions are constructed with a wealth of ...

Article: Researchers at University of Reims release new data on ...
Health & Medicine Week;  September 22, 2008 ;     654 words ... ... intention is to mean something else, to correctly process idiomatic expressions," investigators in Reims, France report (see also ... task) and listened to decomposable and nondecomposable idiomatic expressions inserted in context, before performing a multiple choice ...