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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: (to) Hold Back
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Here's a headline from today's New York Times:. In Targeting ISIS, U.S. Holds Back to Shield Civilians. Today's two-word verb is "(to) hold back. Do you think it means:. Which sentence tells you what this means? The answers are (c) and (2). Here's another current headline:. What holds you back?
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: April 2012
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Sunday, April 22, 2012. Here's one of the more all-purpose verb: (to) end up. This is an intransitive verb, which probably is indicative of its nature. Here's an example of the context in which I saw this word used today:. Here, the reference "end up" was very final. Quitters still end up as winners. What does it mean.
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: July 2012
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Friday, July 20, 2012. To) have it all. Here's a nice expression that was popularized by the women's liberation movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Today's headline is this:. If Marissa Mayer can 'have it all,' can you? Here's another headline with a slightly different take on the matter:. Nobody Can Have It All. What ...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: November 2012
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Wednesday, November 28, 2012. It doesn't add up. We all know that when we add. One to one, we get two. We call this mathematical process addition. But the verb " (to) add up. Has an informal meaning: it signifies that the result makes sense. We will often hear it doesn't add up. With reference to numbers. Now for your...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: it doesn't add up
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Wednesday, November 28, 2012. It doesn't add up. We all know that when we add. One to one, we get two. We call this mathematical process addition. But the verb " (to) add up. Has an informal meaning: it signifies that the result makes sense. We will often hear it doesn't add up. With reference to numbers. Now for your...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: February 2015
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Monday, February 2, 2015. To) Come Down With. A recent article had this to say:. The disease outbreak became apparent when visitors reported coming down with measles after visiting the park from December 15 to December 20. This is a common two-word verb. Example from a website:. Here's to wishing everybody good health!
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: (to) speak out
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Thursday, December 6, 2012. Two common two-word verbs using "speak" as the main verb are speak up and speak out. What's the difference between them? Speak out has a more sociological reference: A person will "speak out" in favor of one project, or "speak out" against another. We begin with the title of a book:. It doe...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: March 2015
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Friday, March 13, 2015. The big news these days is ISIS and here we see this headline? The US. and Canada may have a tougher time defending North America if Russia follows through on a plan to step up its military activity, according to the commander of NORAD. Does this phrase, FOLLOW THROUGH. Tips to resetting habits.
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: March 2012
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Friday, March 30, 2012. Come Down Hard On . Here's a transitive multi-word idiom that you don't want people doing to you. Let's first take a look at a few examples from the headlines and see if you can come up with any hypotheses as to what it might mean:. Law must come down hard on coal mine lawbreakers. One of my fa...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog: (to) Come Down With...
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Jane's ESL (idioms, words, and anything else) Blog. A portal for students and teachers to come together and communicate about English. For learners of English - from New York to New Guinea! Monday, February 2, 2015. To) Come Down With. A recent article had this to say:. The disease outbreak became apparent when visitors reported coming down with measles after visiting the park from December 15 to December 20. This is a common two-word verb. Example from a website:. Here's to wishing everybody good health!
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