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Idiom Using Animal

Hello everybody, today I would like to give you a video from youtube about idiom using animal.....enjoy it!





  
By : Zsal Zsabila

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Idioms Using Colour

Hello guys~! Today I want to  post a video from YouTube about idioms using 'colours'

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By : Yunita Indriana

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Idioms Using Hell


What is hell?
In some religions, it the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished forever for the bad things they have done.
There’s so many expressions using hell, but in this opportunity I will tell you ten of them.
 
Have snowball’s chance in hell 
"to have no chance at all of achieving something"
I have snowball's chance in hell to pass the test


Scare the hell out of me
"to frighten someone badly"
When you opened the door, you scare the hell out of me

Until hell freezes over
"forever"
You can talk until hell freezes over - I won't change my mind

Road to hell is paved with good intentions
"well-intended acts can have disastrous results"
She tried to help by defending Dad's position and they haven't spoken since-the road to hell is paved with good intentions 

Quicker than hell
"very fast" 
I will be right there quicker than hell

A living hell
"an extremely unpleasant place or experience"
 Poor her, she had to be a substitute teacher in a living hell of a public high school

Hell on wheels
"to behave in an angry or difficult way"
When Ken is drinking, he was hell on wheels

Come hell or high water
"determined to do something, even if its difficult"
I will pick you up at the airport on time, come hell or high water

Hell on earth
"a very unpleasant situation, as if one were in hell"
That man made my life hell on earth!

There will be hell to pay
"There will be a lot of trouble if something is done or if something is not done"
There will be hell to pay if I can't do it in time.

By : Yunita Indriana

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COLD IDIOM

This week  I will post with cold idiom.
Here are some practical idioms with the word “cold”

 Go cold turkey
To suddenly and completely stop doing something, esp. a bad habit
I had to diet, because I’m getting fat. I have to cold turkey now.






Cold Fish

An aloof or emotionally reserved person.
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I hate to talks with a cold fish like that. He didn’t even care about people in around him.

Cold Shoulder
To snub, resist or reject somebody; to regard somebody distantly.
I’m very mad with Jackson, so I give him the cold shoulder.

In Cold Blood
Without feeling; with cruel intent. (Frequently said of a crime, especially murder.)
“The killer walked up and shot the woman in cold blood. How insulting! For a person to say something like that in cold blood is just horrible.”

Be Cold Comfort
If something someone tells you to make you feel better about a bad situation is cold comfort, it  does not  make you feel better (usually + to ) 

The doctor said only his hands are paralysed, not his whole body, but I think that will be cold comfort to him.

Leave Somebody (out) In The Cold
To ignore or not include someone.
                                          
If you can't be pleasant to other people, then you will most certainly be left out in the cold.

Stop Someone Cold
To halt someone immediately.
When you told us the bad news, it stopped me cold.

A Stone Cold Fox
 A very fine and sexy woman.
That girl  is a stone cold fox. What’s her name?

Cold Call
 To call a sales prospect from a list of persons one has never met.
Things have to be pretty bad when the senior brokers at a major house have to cold call people to get business.

Feel/Go Hot And Cold (all over) 
To feel that your body is hot and cold at the same time,
Because you have had a shock When I suddenly saw him again in the street after all these years, I went hot and cold all over.


By : Zsal Zsabila

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