Idioms are a very important part of the English language: you are told that if you want to go far (succeed) you should pull your socks up (make a serious effort to improve your behaviour, the quality of your work, etc.) and use your grey matter (brain).1 Learning and translating idioms have always been very difficult for foreign language learners. The present paper explores some of the reasons why English idiomatic expressions are difficult to learn and translate. It is not the aim of this paper to attempt a comprehensive survey of the vast amount of material that has appeared on idioms in Adams and Kuder (1984), Alexander (1984), Dixon (1983), Kirkpatrick (2001), Langlotz (2006), McCarthy and O'Dell (2002), and Wray (2002), among others. The paper concentrates on idioms as a learning-translation problem; it makes no claim to be comprehensive or academically rigorous. Leech (1989) defines an idiom as follows: “An idiom is a group of two or more words which we have to treat as a unit in learning a language. We cannot arrive at the meaning of the idiom just by adding together the meanings of the words inside it. E.g.John and Mary usedto be hardup (='They had very little money'.)”(P.186) To be more exact, an idiom is a sequence of words which is semantically and syntactically restricted, so that they function as a single unit. From a semantic point of view, the meanings of the individual words cannot be summed to produce the meanings of the idiomatic expression as a whole. Thus, fly off the handle, which means lose one's temper, cannot be understood in terms of the meanings of fly, off, or handle. The idiom phrase hot air, which means empty or boastful talk, is neither hot nor air; with hot air we are dealing with a set phrase where the meaning cannot be suggested on the basis of the two constituent words. The idiomatic meaning of spill the beans in So who spilt the beans (=told the secret) about her affair with David? has nothing to do with beans or with spilling in its literal sense. The foreign-language learner is left trying to figure out where and how the beans were spilt. From a syntactic viewpoint, the constituent parts of an idiom often do not permit the usual variability they display in other contexts. The point to be emphasized here is this: most idioms do not lend themselves easily to manipulation by speakers and writers; they are invariable and must be learned as wholes, but concord ofnumber, person and gender in the idiom phrase is still necessary, i.e. the verbs must be put into the correct form, and pronouns must agree with their antecedents: I don't give a hoot for her opinion! 2 • She doesn't give a hoot for my opinion! etc.)║He won, but only by the skin of his teeth2• She won, but only by the skin of her teeth• Iwon, but only by the skin ofmy teeth,I had to run for the train, and caught it by the skin of myteeth, etc.║He kept pullingmy arm, throwing me off my balance 2 • She kept pulling his arm, throwing him off his balance • We kept pullingher arm, throwingher offher balance, etc.2 The present paper is divided into five parts, as follows: Part I: An Overview; PART II: Learner’s Difficulties with Idioms; PART III: Some Pedagogical recommendations and Suggestions about Idioms; Part IV: Activities to Practice Idiomatic Expressions; Part V: Summary and Conclusion.
The Incentives legislation aims to raise the efficiency of job performance of all kinds through optimal investment of human resources and their capabilities to raise or increase and production influence and provide distinguished and creative services such as The Incentives Law of Productive Ministries Employees No. 20 of 1993 and instructions issued by ministries and relevant Facilities regarding incentives for their affiliates based on provisions Public Companies Law and the instructions of the Higher Education Fund issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The human element is the most unstable and complex element of production as it is characterized by a set of feelings and emotions that is expresses
... Show MoreThe chamomile is one of the most important medicinal plants recommended for treatment of asthma and some respiratory system diseases. This research was designed to research the effects of aqueous extract of chamomillarecutita on histological structure of Diaphragm of albino mice. The study included 40 male albino mice Musmusculus, their age ranged from (5-7) weeks.The mices were divided randomly to 5 groups and oral administered with 1 ml every day for 10 days:- First Group G1: consider as control group and treated with normal saline,Second Group G2: was treated with aqueous extract of chamomile with concentration of 3 gm /100 ml D.W, Third Group G3: was treated with aqueous extract of chamomile with concentration of 5 gm /100 ml D.W.Fourth
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The current research aims to :
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The research tackles the monetary policy of the Abassynian state in Baghdad – the center of the Abassynian caliphate in her last days. This age lasts for morethan eight decades . success – sively four caliphates ruled throuyhout these decades. First. ALNaser Ledeen Alah. AL- Daher Be Amer Alah, AL- mustanser Be-Alah then ALmustausem Be-Alah. This caliphate witnessed a sense of release from the boundage of the Salju guian supremqcy which resulted in an interest in coinage of money (Dinarsamd derhem) and engraving it usiny new forms and new weight that reflects the states monetary independence and national sovereignity being an essencial means for treating in the ex– change of trading between people. Caliphat e also made sure of prot
... Show MoreThis research seeks to give an objective, neutral and all-embracing examination of the prince ((Faker al Deen Almani)) as historical study , the prince regard as an important person for his active role in the Lebanese political system from 1590 till 1697. This research include three aspects , chapter 1 deals with historical inheritance of Lebanon before Amaaniya Amart and a rise of Amaanya Amart from (1516-1697). Chapter 2 devoted to the study of personality of Alamer Faker al Deen Al-Mani and his internal policy , Chapter 3 studies the foreign policy of the prince in Lebanon and his end , Finally in the conclusion , certain findings clearly summarized.
I've dealt with marked (after the global economic crisis in the policy of the United States from 1929 to 1933) a set of facts and historical events that contributed to the shaping of American foreign policy during the economic crisis or Miaraf historic recession that hit the big capitalist world Thelatnaat the beginning of the last century, whereOur research included three main areas in which we tried to stabilize the political decision-making in the corridors of diplomacy, U.S. State Department has set off in this research study in three axes: the first included a knowledge of U.S. foreign policy with the countries of Central and South America in light of the global economic crisis 1929–1933. While the second axis included on an
... Show MoreThe current study aims at specifying the required teaching skills to teach history in the intermediate stage according to the point of view of history teachers . The Study is applied in Iraq , Baghdad on the schools of the First and Second Rusaffa directory for the academic year of 2008– 2009 . The researcher prepared a tool of study as a questionnaire of 30 items with three options . They are distributed to six fields . The researcher checked the tool's validity by consulting experts in the field of history and educational an psychological sciences .and the factor of validity of the tool of study is derived through depending on initial test of samples of the society of research which is of 30 male and female teachers . The ratio of th
... Show MoreSubject of research is the tolerance and the social fairness in the islamic civilization forthe imams of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them), one of the places value and wide in the dimensions of intellectual and practical, the principle of equality and tolerance with people is an integral part of ethics required in the social and economic relations, politics and all walks of life systems the general components of the Islamic civilization. Which witnessed in the proposals and applications imams of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) this impotance and reasons were behind my choice for this subject grabbed in my research: equality and religious tolerance with the people of disclosure, and reviewed the tolerance of the faithful Ali bin Abi Talib
... Show MoreThis investigation was carried out to examin the effect of addition of dried bread (db) in different percentages on the sensory and microbial properties of the Chickpeas with Tehena (C T) . The results revealed that adding 0% (than db in the CT) ( treatment A ) control gained high significan different than that of other adding percentages in texture and appearance . And showed that of adding 5% (than db in the CT) (treatment B ) gained high significan different than that of other adding percentages in flavor , colour and overall acceptance. The adding 15% (than db in the CT) ( treatment C) showed that gained high significan different than adding 25 and 35 % (than db in the CT) (treatments D and E ) than all sensory properties . And addin
... Show MoreThe current study aimed at identifying the orientations of the female students of Faculty of Education for women in Baghdad University toward the different teaching methodologies and the differences in variable factor with different major, teaching phase and the interaction between them. The study sample consisted of (147) female students on whom a questionnaire composed of (36) items were applied after verifying its objective and steadiness. The results indicated that the orientations of the female students of Faculty of Education for Girls in Baghdad University toward the teaching methodologies are positive however it was negative toward the questionnaire. The results indicated also that there is difference in the orientation toward th
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