In the name of Allah

Watching vocabulary
In this video a very short definition about the idioms will be given to the students:
Definition of Idioms: Words or group of words that have a meaning different than
the direct meaning of the words themselves.
Ex: something is a piece of cake – very easy to do.
Learning English is a piece of cake. In here it means that this action is really easy to do not
to eat a cake.
Well, in this lesson, ten very important and useful IDOMS will be taught:
1. To take the bull by the horns – meaning – to deal with a difficult situation.
Ex: I wanted to take the bull by the horns and learn many languages, but it didn’t
work.
2. Horse of a different color – meaning – to be different from other people or things.
Ex: We have a lot of students in our city, but my students are a horse of a different
color.
3. To horse around – meaning – to play / behave in a careless, noisy and silly way.
Ex: hey man, stop horsing around my car, you’ll damage it.
4. To be fishy – meaning – to be suspicious.
Ex: That man asked me several questions, I don’t know why? I think something is
fishy.
5. To pay through the nose – meaning – to pay more than the actual price of sth.
Ex: Don’t take my phone, I paid through the nose for it.
6. To pull someone’s leg – meaning – to tell sth surprising, shocking, worrying or
stressful to someone just to have fun.
Ex: Have you finished your higher education? Or are you pulling your dad’s leg?
7. To shake a leg – meaning – to hurry up.
Ex: You have to finish your class activity in two minutes so, shake a leg.
8. To break a leg – meaning – good luck.
Ex: Are you going to take the TOEFL test? Ok, break a leg!
9. To leave someone high and dry – meaning – to put someone in a difficult situation
and leave them there without helping them.
Ex: Her mother passed away when she was only seven years old then her uncles left
her high and dry.
10. To bend over backwards – meaning – to try really hard to do sth good or to help
someone.
My students are really intelligent and they bend over backwards to learn everything
as quickly as it’s possible.
Prepared by: Jami