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Has someone ever told you to hold your horses? Mark my words: you'll know exactly what that means after reading this book! Learn the meaning and origin of these unusual sayings and many more in this engaging, informative book. Colorful, humorous illustrations and clear examples help readers better understand idioms and how to use them. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary, critical-thinking questions, sources for further research,...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence. Is it raining cats and dogs today? Have you ever chewed the fat or pushed the envelope? You use idioms all the time, but have you ever wondered where they come from or what they mean? In this series, learn the meanings and origins of these and many other shocking, bizarre, compelling, intriguing, and unbelievable phrases. Additional features to aid...
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What is an idiom? It can be an insult - "He has more brawn than brains." - or a compliment - "She's a real trooper." Idioms add life to our language: "I have ants in my pants." Idioms can cast light on a topic, and they have the power to add color to your language and add punch to your vocabulary. Have FUN WITH IDIOMS, and improve your command of English at the same time!
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A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in-and as-deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter...
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What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to...
12) Intoxication
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication...
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Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For-Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of generalized philology that is equivalent to the real production of linguistic utterances, and indeed utterances not limited to predicative or even discursive...
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What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyper-consumerist culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary...
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The adventures continue in Volume 2 of Illustrated Idioms!
There are 'plenty of fish in the sea,' when it comes to the definition of English Idioms. This book is a refreshing spin on the typical dictionary definition of the words.
Illustrated Idiom is a collection of short stories written to ILLUSTRATE the meaning behind the words. Inspired by the words themselves, this book will give you a fresh insight into how the idioms were born and the context...
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Jacques Derrida has written that "the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty." How, Kamuf asks, does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States, where it remains the last of its kind in a nation that professes to be a democracy? What resources do fiction, narrative, and poetic...
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How to talk
your way through
idiom-infested waters
Swim with the natives without fear of an "Idiom Attack"
• Add 300 key idioms to your arsenal!
• Be ready for 25 topics with day-to-day idioms!
• Learn quickly with a three-step training process!
Nada con los nativos sin temer un "Ataque de Modismos"
• ¡Añade 300 modismos claves a tu arsenal!
• ¡Prepárate en 25 temas con modismos cotidianos!
• ¡Aprende rápidamente con un método...
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If getting used to your new environment is the first step, getting ready for the unexpected (an Idiom Attack!) should be the next. It's easy to lose ourselves in our daily routines, so whether you're going to school, the office, or commuting, idioms will pop up even when you're not hitting the books. Impress your peers and stay on top of your idiom game with these phrases you'll run into on a daily basis.
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19) Doing Business
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*** Idiom Attack 2 - Doing Business (German Edition) ***
Angriff der Redewendungen 2 - Geschäfte machen
Finally, a proven system to master Business English Idioms and speak like a native in the workplace...
...without breaking the bank or wasting hours of your time, GUARANTEED!
English Idioms for ESL Learners: With 300+ Idioms in 25 Themed Chapters w/ free MP3 at IdiomAttack.com
Are you confused by common sayings in the English language?
Discover...
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*** Idiom Attack 2 - Doing Business (Spanish Edition) ***Ataque de Modismos 2 - Haciendo negociosFinally, a proven system to master Business English Idioms and speak like a native in the workplace... ...without breaking the bank or wasting hours of your time, GUARANTEED!English Idioms for ESL Learners: With 300+ Idioms in 25 Themed ChaptersAre you confused by common sayings in the English language? Discover the hidden meanings of English idioms to...
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