Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Simple Idioms

There is no doubt that idiom is essential to make your speaking up. However, you should deliver it appropriately unless it would lead to chaotic conversation. Furthermore, idiom doesn't always come with sophisticated phrase. I'd like to share simple idioms which I have read before for as follows:

  1. To die down - to become more quite; to diminish; to subside
  2. to come about - to happen; to occur; to be caused
  3. to stand out - to be noticeable; to be prominent; to be clearly seen
  4. to break down - to fail to function; to stop working properly
  5. to fall through - to fail to occur; not to happen
  6. to get ahead - to make progress; to succeed
  7. to get around - to travel; to move about
  8. to hold on - to wait; to pause
  9. to open up - to talk honestly and freely
  10. to come up - to arise
  11. to break in - to interrupt
  12. to catch on - to finally understand
  13. to look on - to watch; to observe; to be a spectatore
  14. to settle down - to become calm,quite, or peaceful; to begin a normal; stable life
  15. to show up - to arrive; to appear
  16. to take after - resemble; to look like
  17. to go without -not to have; to lack
  18. to turn into - to become; to change into
  19. to get over - to recover from
  20. to turn to - to ask help of; get advice from
Could you help me to organise the other idioms?

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