English idioms in use

Graduation thesis "A study on colors used in idiomatic expressions in English and Vietnamese equivalents" is aimed at: help readers to have better understanding about the basic background of idioms, its definition, types and classifications. Clarify the meaning of some English and Vietnamese idioms related to color. Research about the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms.

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This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

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Idioms are extremely difficult topics and merely well-understood by foreign English learners and even native speakers of English who take the idioms and proverbs for granted because when they use idioms, they do not know if they are using them.

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Idioms are used a lot in English language by native speakers, sometimes as a simpler way to express a complicated idea, sometimes to be more creative in using language. There is a great deal idioms that are color-based idioms. The differences between Vietnamese and English culture resulted in many differences in their languages and idiom is not an exception.

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In order to achieve the aforementioned aim, the researcher has set the following specific objectives: To describe the grammatical and semantics features of idioms. To find out the difficulties encountered by students in reading idioms in short stories - to offer some suggestions for learning idioms in English short stories.

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Examine the description of semantic features of metaphor in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings; discover some similarities and differences in using idiomatic metaphor especially those used in English and Vietnamese idioms denoting human feelings.

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Examining the syntactic and semantic features of adjective and verb phrases as idioms using the words of body parts in expressing emotion in English and Vietnamese; finding out the similarities and differences in adjective and verb phrases as idioms using the words of body parts in expressing emotion in English and Vietnamese.

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We have prepared 100 American idioms in order to help you learn English better. These idioms are the most common in use today. And we hope that you “won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” List of Idioms 1. “to have one’s finger in too many pies” - To be involved in too many things at the same time. (so you can’t do any of them well) 2. “to kill two birds with one stone” - To manage to do two things at the same time. 3. “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” -...

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