Exploring idioms

Students explore idiomatic expressions, and provide definitions and explanations of the etymology of the following expressions through research:

• barking up the wrong tree
• don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
• shooting yourself in the foot
• crying over spilt milk
• raining cats and dogs
• Bob’s your uncle
• cat has got your tongue
• you’re pulling my leg
• wear your heart on your sleeve
• being in the doghouse
• piece of cake
• let the cat out of the bag.

Students then consider what happens when idioms are translated into other languages in a series of tasks.                

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