by Kate Woodford On September 20th, four million people across the globe expressed their concern and anger about climate change by demonstrating (=gathering or walking in a public place to show t...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2019/10/23/see-you-on-the-march-the-language-of-protests/
by Liz Walter My last post was about phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs connected to sadness and happiness. This post will look at some other emotions. Let’s start with anger. If someone sud...
by Liz Walter Phrasal verbs are a very important part of English (even if students hate them!) and I have written several posts explaining useful ones. I realised recently that there is a surpris...
by Kate Woodford Last month, we looked at idioms featuring words for sweet items of food. Changing the order in which we usually eat food, (savoury, then sweet), we’re now focusing on idioms th...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2019/09/11/couch-potatoes-and-peas-in-a-pod-more-food-idioms/
by Liz Walter Food shopping is something that nearly all of us do, and it is the kind of basic topic that is often quite difficult in another language. This post looks at some words and phrases y...
by Kate Woodford This week, we’re looking at English idioms that feature food and drink words. As there are lots of these idioms, we’re focusing today on idioms containing words for sweet foo...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2019/08/28/pieces-of-cake-and-sour-grapes-food-idioms/
by Liz Walter I’ve written a couple of posts on collocations (word partners) recently, and a reader suggested some specific collocation topics, one of which was the environment. Climate change ...
by Kate Woodford On this blog, we often look at the various English words and phrases that we use to express the same concept. This week we’re focusing on the word ‘interesting’. There are ...
by Liz Walter There are a surprising number of idioms that contain the word ‘ball’. This post looks at some of the most useful ones. It seems appropriate to start with the idiom get/start the...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2019/08/07/the-balls-in-your-court-now-idioms-with-ball/
by Kate Woodford How was your day at work or college? Was it useful (=giving positive results)? Did you get a lot done? Perhaps you had a lot of work to do but, for some reason, found it hard to�...