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Learning Idioms with the word "All" Hello my name is Luis and this is a lesson on idioms, so an idiom is a phrase that uses english words and is an expression, so the words don´t represent the literal meaning. Which is why idioms are sometimes hard understand for listener learners. Ok, so all of this idioms we are gonna see today are commonly use in english conversation, so the first we are gonna learn is: "All your eggs in one basket" For example: Don´t put all your money in one horse. this means: Don´t risk all in one thing Ok, the next idiom we are going to learn is: "All ears" We hear, we are hears and if you are listening somebody anyway to say I´m listening, a commonly expression that we use is: I´m all ears. Our next idiom is: "All in your head" So, if somebody says you that something is all in you head it means that you are imagining at. it´s not really real, you are just imagining and creating in your head. Our next idiom using all is: "All in a day´s work" it means: something is not big deal, so somebody is seeing for doing something and you say oh! it´s all in a day´s work, it is means: No problem, Don´t worry about, it isn´t a big deal. "All hell broke loose" If you hear somebody say this, it means that something bad happened. "All over the map" So, a map is a piece of paper that shows an area of land, and if you say that something was all over the map, for example if your teacher was giving a lecture and it was really difficult to understand and hard to follow and they were jumping from subject to subject, you will say: that lecture was all over the map. You couldn´t understanding, you couldn´t follow it; like a path on a map, there is no path, it was everywhere, it was incomprehensible... it was all over the map. So, you can´t understanding, you are refering something like a lecture or someone is talking to you and you don´t understand what is saying because he is jumping around all the time. ok, one more idiom: "All eyes on me" See, you can say: All eyes on me, on him, on her... but what it means is that everybody is looking at you and waiting for something happen, so for example if you are giving a speech and everybody is waiting you talk and waiting you do something, you can say: "All eyes are on me". So, we are learn seven idioms with the word All.
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Learning Idioms with the word "All"

Hello, my name is Luis and this is a lesson on idioms. so An idiom is a phrase that uses english words and is an expression so  where the words don´t represent the literal meaning. Which This happens to be is (this "happens to be" is an expression that is very natural here) why idioms are sometimes hard to understand for listener learners (learners who are listening sounds a bit more natural to me).

Ok, so all of the idioms we are gonna going to ("gonna" is often the sound of "going to" in various regional dialects but it is not used in writing) see today are commonly used in english conversation. so The first one we'll are gonna learn is: (Instead of relying on "so" as a pause, the formation I suggested is a very natural way to express the same sentence)

"All your eggs in one basket"

For example: Don´t put all your money on one horse.

this means: Don´t risk it all (everything)  on one thing

Ok, the next idiom we are going to learn is:

"All ears"

We hear, we are all ears and if you are listening somebody anyway to say I´m listening,(sentence is  bit confusing.  Perhaps, "the expression we are all ears is used to express to someone that we are paying attention or listening to them) a commonly expression that we use is: I´m all ears.

Our next idiom is: "All in your head"

So (When you speak this sentence without "so" it sounds normal.  instead of the "so" you simply pause and it sounds perfect) if somebody says tells you that something is all in your head it means that you are imagining it, or it doesn't exist. it´s not really real, you are just imagining and creating it (the situation) in your head.

Our next idiom using all is: "All in a day´s work"

it means: something is not big deal. so Perhaps someone is sees you doing something that appears to be a challenge a makes a comment to you.  You might respond,  and you might say (respond) oh! it´s all in a day´s work, it is means: No problem, Don´t worry about, it isn´t a big deal (it's simply my job or the work that i do).

"All hell broke loose"

If you hear somebody say this, it means that something bad has happened.

"All over the map"

So, a map is a piece of paper that shows an area of land, and if you say that something was all over the map, for example if your teacher was giving a lecture and it was really difficult to understand and hard to follow and they were jumping from subject to subject, you might say: that lecture was all over the map. You couldn´t understanding, you couldn´t follow it; like a path on a map, there is no path, it was everywhere, it was incomprehensible... it was all over the map.

So, you can´t understanding, you are refering to something like a lecture or someone is talking to you and you don´t understand what he or she is saying because he is jumping around all the time.

ok, one more idiom: "All eyes on me"

See, you can say: All eyes on me, on him, on her... but what it means is that everybody is looking at you and waiting for something to happen. so for example, if you are giving a speech and everybody is waiting for you to  talk and waiting for you to do something, you can/could say: "All eyes are on me".

So, we are learn have learned seven idioms with the word All.

April 21, 2014
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