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In a recent 'Dayne's Dictionary' post, We looked at the word 'snooze' as a noun or as a verb eg. "I like to snooze in the morning" (verb) or "I like to have a snooze in the morning" (noun)

We can also use snooze, as a noun, to describe the button on our alarm clocks and phone alarms that enable us to do the verb from which it get its name. The snooze button! As a big fan of a nice long sleep, I am guilty of hitting snooze on my iPhone's alarm. As a result I've had to rush to get to the office on

Hi fellas! 

Welcome to rebus puzzles, part II. Bum! Brrum! Brrrumble!!!! You probably need to know what on earth is a rebus. I will not bore you with the details. Here's a link to part I. Check it out: 

Ask Inspector Rebus!

Okay, now let's get to work.

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Piece of cake, right?

Ooh, ooh!!! Please do not forget to use them in sentences.

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHA...

Add color to the English language. How? You can use literary devices—idioms, similes and metaphors to name a few. Easy peasy! Writers and speakers use them to highlight an idea, or feature a certain characteristic of a person they're describing. A simile is a very powerful way to describe a character. Poets and writers can use them in their writings. Why can't you? How about some animal similes? 

• As sly as a fox

As timid as a rabbit

• As meek as a lamb

• As fast as a cheetah

Ah, the irony...

• As graceful

Sport - a great activity. Man seriously involved in sports, guaranteed to live to a ripe old age, his life will have excellent health. The main thing is not to exhaust the body workouts too. Of course, it is important to avoid and injuries. Being an opponent of sports silly, but also pernicious fanaticism. And if you want to earn a living in sports, there are a lot of good jobs associated with this kind of activity. Below some examples of this shown.

5. Physical Education Teacher

Responsibilities

Hello Again everyone,

A few days ago I wrote a blog just because I wanted to practice my writing skill. It wasn't a very interesting blog and when I posted it I was sure that hardly anyone would read it or comment on it. However, the response was beyond my expectations and I'm so grateful to all of you for your priceless kindness.

My previous experience has given me the hope that sometimes even meaningless ranting could be a way to practice and improve writing skill and I'm so happy about that.

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Steamed Fish with Chunks of Tofu

A few days ago, I was able to listen to a podcast from BBC Learning English website about chunks of language.

Chunks of language (as defined by BBC Learning English) are groups of words that naturally go together. They are fixed expressions used by native speakers of English. They can't be usually changed.

Based on my observation, you can find chunks of language through reading news articles and by watching English TV shows or movies. Idioms, sayings, and fixed coll

Hi Friend,

After a long time I tried to write something of latest happening.Please do correct my mistake and rate my blogs.

There was a big crowd when I went near to the place. Nothing was visible and but colloquial confused sounds heard. Somehow I managed to get in and what I saw was shocking. A man lay on the ground and covered with white plastic poster. With air fluctuation, the covered poster covers and uncovers his body He seemed slaughtered and blood clots were visible in between.

After few m

1) At railway station, she was looking for her beloved, the most beloved one ever in the world, anxiously and impatiently lost in the vicinity of the station

2) Suddenly, her ears caught the voice of her beloved one shouting "mom! Mom!

3) She inhaled the breath of peace offering prostration of thank to God the Almighty

There once lived a man in a remote place in Bhutan whose name was Tashi. Tashi studied up to class III and he was a number one liar. He always lied and nobody in his community trusted him.  

Then, once in the community there was an opportunity to go on Agriculture tour to Thailand which was organized by the Government. Tashi got this opportunity as he was also a farmer.

There were many people from other countries too for the training.

Tashi’s seat mate was Mr. Mahindra from India who visited many c

A rebus is a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for example, apex might be represented by a pic of an ape followed by a letter X. Kinda fun, huh? Now, let's make it really clear. Can you guess this one?

Bingo! That's Hamlet's iconic quote "To be or not to be". Now that you got the general idea, try to solve these:

Ooh, almost forgot. Use them in sentences, please. Cue Evil laugh!!! 3:]

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Let me know if you're interested. I'll post a fol

My dear friends and my genious students!  Today I am proposing you a little bit different challenge. I am posting the sentences containing idioms, phrasal verbs, etc. and I propose you to rewrite these sentences using the synonyms. The synonyms shouldn't be idioms. In the examples the idioms are in bold. So, I will show you what I mean. 

The given sentence:

At last he found what he had been looking for.

The reply:

He finally found what he had been looking for.

I believe, I've made myself clear about

I have been selling lottery tickets in a bus stand in my home town for many years. This evening a man came and handed me a cheque and said 'I bought a ticket from you last month and I won thirty million, and this is your share!'

 Hahaha…really he made me mad. I’m thinking..thinking…here is my blog. (And this is the first time that my blog is very very ..short lol..)

          I have a lovely, cute, and “handsome” dog. One day, when my daughter and the dog is playing together, suddenly the dog runs to his cage very quickly and pretends  to be asleep. The reason is : he heard my “footstep” and though : a witch is coming

Translating is really hard. Most Languages don't usually translate directly. However, when we are using our second language, we naturally translate it in our heads, using our native language.

for example; Lets assume your second language (L2) is English, and your native language (L1) is Arabic. You are having a conversation with a native English speaker, when he speaks you listen, and you naturally translate his words into Arabic in your head. Now you think of the appropriate response in Arabic,

1) He was Fed up with taking care of his old mother and carried her on his back to leave her in a distant valley.

2) On his way, he fell down and hurt his leg.

3) He heard that his mother was mumbling:" Oh my dear son. Let me bandage your leg."

Hurieh, March 19th/ 2016

Camilla lives in a big apartment.

Angela lives in a hot apartment.

Tom lives in a cold apartment.

Camilla lives in a red apartment.

Angela lives in a pink apartment.

Tom lives in a grey apartment.


Camilla has a big pen.



Angela has a black pen.

Tom has an old pen.


Camilla has a red bag.



Camilla's bag is old.

Angela has a pink bag.

Angela's bag is not old.

Tom has a black bag.

Tom's bag is not old.



Tom is hot.



Tom wants a fan.



Camilla's fan is grey and old.


Tom is

I read your post about marriage in iran but I know another type of that
wight marriage ezdevage sefide. in this type boy and girl meet each other if they find themselves suitable for marriage they start to marriage but they never register their marriage on the paper

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