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Idiomatic Expression: Sentence: Meaning

This document provides definitions and examples of common idiomatic expressions in English: - "It's raining cats and dogs" means a very heavy downpour. - "Sit on the fence" refers to avoiding making a decision or commitment on an issue. - "Apple of my eye" describes something or someone one cherishes above all others. - Phrases like "mad as a hornet" or "mad as hell" are used to convey being very angry. - "Sick as a dog" means very ill, especially from stomach issues. - "Cat and mouse" refers to a constant back-and-forth between two parties trying to gain advantage.

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Idiomatic Expression: Sentence: Meaning

This document provides definitions and examples of common idiomatic expressions in English: - "It's raining cats and dogs" means a very heavy downpour. - "Sit on the fence" refers to avoiding making a decision or commitment on an issue. - "Apple of my eye" describes something or someone one cherishes above all others. - Phrases like "mad as a hornet" or "mad as hell" are used to convey being very angry. - "Sick as a dog" means very ill, especially from stomach issues. - "Cat and mouse" refers to a constant back-and-forth between two parties trying to gain advantage.

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IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: We usually go away for the summer.

Meaning: Definition of go away. 1 : to leave a place or person She angrily told him to go
away and stop bothering her. 2 : to leave home for a period of time They're going away on
vacation. After graduating from high school, he went away to college.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: It's Raining Cats and Dogs means: A heavy down pour, rain coming down very
quickly and hard. Example of use: “There's no way they'll be playing at the park, it's raining
cats and dogs out there!”

Meaning: “Cats and dogs” may come from the Greek expression cata doxa,
which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it
is raining unusually or unbelievably hard. ... A false theory stated that cats and dogs used to
cuddle into thatch roofs during storms and then be washed out during heavy rains.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: Example sentences using Sit on the fence


The politician did not commit himself to either side of the reporter's controversial
question. He just sat on the fence so as not to lose votes from either side. You can't sit
on the fence any longer – you must choose whose side you are on.

Meaning: 1) I sit on the fence when I can not make a decision. 2) You sit on the
fence because a decision is difficult. 3) He sits on the fencewhen he feels unsure. 4) She sits
on the fence in order to postpone a decision.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: “I just love Jessie. She's the apple of my eye.”

Meaning: The phrase apple of my eye refers in English today to something or someone that
one cherishes above all others.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence:

Meaning: Very angry, enraged as in Mary was mad as a hornet when her purse was stolen,
or Upset? Dan was mad as hell, or The teacher was mad as a wet hen. The use of madfor
“angry”.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: Very ill, especially from a stomach malady. For example, I don't know what was
in that stew but I was sick as a dog all night. This simile was first recorded in 1705. Why
a dog should be viewed as particularly sick remains unclear.

Meaning: sick as a dog. Very ill, especially from a stomach malady. For example, I don't
know what was in that stew but I was sick as a dog all night. This simile was first recorded in
1705. Why a dog should be viewed as particularly sick remains unclear.
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION

Sentence: The police played an elaborate game of cat and mouse to trap him.

Meaning: A situation characterized by two parties engaged in a constant back-and-forth


routine in which one party attempts to gain tactical advantage over or draw out of hiding the
other, often only to be thwarted or eluded. Police have been playing a cat-and-mouse
game with drug dealers in this area for years now.

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