Language Arts Grade Four
Unit Nine, Lesson Two: Idioms
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- expire
- umpire
- inspire
- entire
- retire
- reservation
- preserve
- protect
- county
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- lookout
- forest
- timber
- lumberjack
- fir
- cedar
- pine
- hemlock
- redwood
- bristlecone
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Idioms
Consider this sentence:
Jill hit the sack at nine o'clock last night.
Does this mean that she actually punched a sack of some kind? Of course not!
Most of us understand that it means that she went to bed at nine o'clock.
The phrase "hit the sack" is an idiom which is understood to mean "go to
bed." Idioms are expressions which have a meaning which is not the same as
the meaning of its actual words. Here are some more examples:
IDIOM MEANING
hit the hay go to bed
break a leg be successful
threw in the towel to give up
went out on a limb take a risk
cut the mustard do the job
Here are these idioms used in sentences:
Joe hit the hay after a hard day of work.
Jill told Jack to go break a leg before going on stage.
James threw in the towel after being unsuccessful three times in a row.
Jill went out on a limb to help the boy.
Jack showed every one that he could cut the mustard.
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