Today we are talking about phraseology in pictures. Save the pictures, show them to your kids, make them as a quiz to your friends.
- The reading time is 4 minutes.
- Background
- What's the difficulty?
- List of phraseological expressions with stories and pictures.
Background
Some international language examinations include whole blocks devoted to phraseological expressions. In this way the examiners check whether the student is aware of the cultural context of the country and its language.
A similar story happens with the Russian language. Even a vocabulary of 20,000 words looks meager if it is not diluted with stable expressions.
What's the difficulty?
What's complicated is the beauty of it. Any phraseology has a figurative meaning and it is not enough just to memorize the phrase. It is important to understand its meaning. And it is easier for children to memorize the phrase and meaning if you share with them the history of the phraseology. Better yet, add a funny picture.
Phraseology 1. There's a mouse hanging in the refrigerator.
Literally no mouse was hanging, but the fridge was empty and there was nothing to eat, and the mouse was very sad.
Phraseology 2. He has a hare's soul.
And there was no hare soul in man. But hares are thought to be cowardly, and cowardly people are compared to them.
Phraseology 3. Orphan of Kazan.
No, this is not a boy from Kazan without parents. This is a person who pretends to be poor and tries to make someone feel sorry for him.
Phraseology 4. Workhorse.
Yes, sometimes horses work too. But that's what we call someone who has taken on a lot of work tasks.
Phraseology 5. Barely making ends meet.
This is not a short stint, it is a situation where a person has stable money problems and cannot pay off debts.
There is a theory that the expression came from accounting, because the lowest debit and credit totals were called ends.
Phraseology 6. Time flies.
Time passes so quickly that it seemed to rush past you on purpose.
The expression was first used by the Roman poet Virgil in the poem Georgics
Phraseology 7. Indian summer.
No, this is not your grandmother's story of how she spent her summer. It's about the very warm fall days when it feels like summer is coming back.
The story went from peasant women who worked all summer and could finally rest in September.
Phraseology 8. White Crow.
And we're not talking about an albino raven here. It's about a person who stands out from the group.
Like bright people, white crows are rare. Hence the phraseology.
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