Exercise: General english idioms
Idiom of the Week: Burning that bridge when you get to it
The goal of Idiom of the Week is to showcase some of the many commonplace idiomatic expressions found in the English language in order to help you understand them better. This week, however, we have chosen a more unconventional expression to show you: “I’ll burn that...
Idiom of the Week: Baseball Idioms
This week we’ll look into four idioms which share a common origin: baseball. These are most prominently used in American English, although they have spread to other varieties of English mostly through cultural osmosis. The prominence of these idioms in American...
Word Field Exercise: Poem Dulce Et Decorum Est
In our post on Finding and Identifying Rhetorical devices we have already talked about identifying rhetorical devices that can enhance meaning in a text. Poetry is full of imagery and metaphors and there are many layers to analyse within a poem. In the following, we...
Idiom of the Week: Silver linings
For something to have a silver lining is a common English idiom to express that a certain negative occurrence can also have a positive side to it. This idiom likely originates from John Milton’s 1634 masque Comus which contained the lines, Was I deceiv’d, or did a...Gefördert vom
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