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BBC Hindi - Learning English - Phrase craze

Phrase craze

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Phrase idioms

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Phrase idiom
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Phrase idiom

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. Phrase
Noun
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group of words, which makes sense, but not complete sense, is called a Phrase.
Grammar

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The car outside the building is black. The car outside the building




outside the building.
The sun rises in the east in the east

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: A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

It is raining cats and dogs. cats and dogs
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Phrase idiom
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Phrases .

Phrases

A sea change:
- A radical change or transformation-

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Ariel
-Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange
A fools paradise:
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A state of happiness based on false hope.

(1592)

but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into

a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior...
A sorry sight:

A regrettable and unwelcome aspect or feature.
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(1605)

--This is a sorry sight. Sorry face
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: A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
Green-eyed monster:
-- Jealousy.



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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on

Phrases

Fair play; foul play; come what may; fight fire with fire; high time etc

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