Auction, by Owen @ Jan 16th－Bliss English Club

Dear all bliss members,

Last week our host, Michael Tsai, bring us a great lesson about American Idioms. We learned the types of Idioms – Fixed type and Wild-card type, and many interesting Idioms with illustrations. We also debated on the pro and cons of rekindling on old flame. I believe that all the attended learned a lot in this meeting. I’d like to summarize the idioms and share with you as follows:

Idioms	meaning
A red herring	A diversion
Throw down the gauntlet	Challenge somebody
Cat got your tongue	Can’t talk
Feel like a million dollar	Feel great
Have a finger in the pie	Join or participate in something
Something rings the bell	Something reminds you
Play the field	Date many different people at the same time
Smell a rat	Feel suspicious about something
Go to the dogs	Become rundown; get worse
Take the bull by the horns	deal with the problem head-on
Bury the hatchet	end hostilities
Feed someone a line	Deceive someone
Kick the bucket	die
Let the cat out of the bag	reveal the secret
Bite the dust	die; fail; break down
Scratch one’s back	to accommodate with a favor especially in expectation of like return
Hit the ceiling	become very angry
For the bird	worthless, ridiculous, good for nothing
Shake a leg	hurry
Shoot the breeze	talk, chat

Thanks Jay, Tracy, Joy, Fox, Nelly, Barkley, Karl, Angela, Stephanie and Owen for your participation. The following is the photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/Jun10AmericanIdiomsByByMichael#