Sentences with phrase «common idiom»

In fourth grade, students should have command of grade level appropriate sight words, be able to read and comprehend informational text with domain - specific vocabulary, use context to determine the correct meaning of homonyms (multiple - meaning words), and recognize figurative language, including common idioms, simple similes, and metaphors.

He's the incarnation of Famine, and I adore him for many reasons, but one of my favorite things is his tendency to butcher common idioms.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you all the languages it has been translated to, but you can expect to find the most common idioms in games on it.

Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.

This common idiom, widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, is what drives a great deal of innovation in today's tech - meets - business world.

But in the common idiom it is proper to say that the same event occurs again and again when we mean that such events display characteristics that are much the same.

And then we looked at a list of the 50 most popular or common idioms, and from that they started to recognize other idioms that they were hearing outside of school and in school, and it was a lot of fun to be working in a math class, and then all of a sudden a hand pops up and someone says, «Hey, that was an idiom.»»

«Don't buy it» is a common idiom referring to belief, rather than purchase.

From the Ground Up, a common idiom that means developing something from a simple concept to a more complex reality, is the inspiration for Ground Floor Gallery's inaugural juried show.

The title of the exhibition references the common idiom that if something looks wrong, it probably is.

The end result is more like a collage than a painting: a loud and exasperating argument in different tongues, promising never to be resolved for lack of a common idiom.