摘要:( it is difficult to accept but necessary because of what happened ... ) A bitter pill to swallow is something that you do not want to do, but you have to do it, because it is a good for you. Example[阅读全文]

摘要:( accept that everything has a bad as well as a good side ... ) "You have to take the good with the bad" (proverb) says that everything in life has both good and bad side, so you have to accept bot[阅读全文]

摘要:( you can show people how do do things, but people must help themselves ... ) "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" (proverb) says that you can give people what they need to[阅读全文]

摘要:( meaning to do the right thing is no good excuse if you did the wrong thing anyway ... ) "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" (proverb) says that sometimes we do the wrong thing even t[阅读全文]

摘要:( you find a way to do what you need to do ... ) "Necessity is the mother of invention" (proverb) says that when you really need to do things ("necessity"), you find new ways of doing them ("inv[阅读全文]

摘要:( go away; leave ... ) You say "go fly a kite" to tell someone to go to another place and do something different; leave here (agressive). Example: "Oh- not you again!" Reply: "Hey, why don't yo[阅读全文]

摘要:( too much time together causes bad feelings ... ) "Familiarity breeds contempt" says that when you spend too much time with people, you begin to have negative feelings towards them. Example: "Tho[阅读全文]

摘要:( don't make judgments based only on appearances ... ) You can't judge a book by its cover means that before you can judge something, you need to take a deeper, closer look at it. Example: "He dre[阅读全文]

摘要:毋庸置疑( it is certain ... ) We say "without a doubt" to express that something is certain. "Without a doubt" is often used as a response to a yes-no question. Example: "Are you going to watch[阅读全文]

摘要:( restrained from acting as you would like ... ) When we are in a defensive position and have to make choices that we would not like to make, we say that we have our "back up against the wall". The[阅读全文]

摘要:( it hasn't happened for a long time, and then it happens all at once ... ) When it rains, it pours describes how after there has been no rain for a long time, it suddenly rains a lot all at once. E[阅读全文]

摘要:( the signs of a coming change ... ) "The writing is on the wall" when you can see signs that there is going to be a change. Example: "At that point, the writing was on the wall; we all knew the c[阅读全文]

摘要:( the results are exactly the same on both sides ... ) Something is split down the middle when it has been divided and the two sides are of the same amount. The "split" emphasizes the act of dividi[阅读全文]

摘要:     10 Ways to Develop Expository Writing Skills With The New York Times      Have you been knocking your head against the proverbial wall trying to teach –[阅读全文]

摘要:The topic of a paragraph      The topic of a paragraph is generally introduced by a key sentence. This is often called a topic sentence. As its name suggests, this sentence conta[阅读全文]

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摘要:"Off limits" describes a place where you are not allowed to go. Example: "The park is off limits; I do not want you going in there." Children like to forget where they're not supposed to go, so p[阅读全文]

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摘要:To "bite the hand that feeds you" is to harm someone who has been helping you. Example: "We treat each of our customers with the greatest respect here. We never bite the hand that feeds us." If yo[阅读全文]